Event name
Book Club - The Children's Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin
When
Wed 01 / 26 / 2022
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Where
Jersey Meadow Golf Course
Limited capacity: Registration Closed
Price
FREE
Based on actual oral histories of survivors, this gripping novel follows the stories of Raina and Gerda Olsen, two sisters, both schoolteachers—one becomes a hero of the storm and the other finds herself ostracized in the aftermath. It’s also the story of Anette Pedersen, a servant girl whose miraculous survival serves as a turning point in her life and touches the heart of Gavin Woodson, a newspaperman seeking redemption. It was Woodson and others like him who wrote the embellished news stories that lured northern European immigrants across the sea to settle a pitiless land. Boosters needed them to settle territories into states, and they didn’t care what lies they told these families to get them there—or whose land it originally was.