The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley
Date and Time: May 22, 2018
Location:
Overland Park Historical Society, 8045 Santa Fe Drive, Overland Park
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From the TALK series, Before the Civil War
Discussion Leader: Erin Pouppirt
Set mostly in the Kansas Territory shortly before the Civil War, narrator Lydia "Lidie" Harkness recounts her adventures while disguised as a boy, reporting for a proslavery newspaper, and helping a woman escape a plantation. 452 pp.
Sponsored by: Overland Park Historical Society
For more information about this event, please contact:
Pat Crabtree
(913) 432-3448
http://www.ophistorical.org/