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Adult Afternoon Program: Wisconsin for Kennedy

Feb. 3 @ 2:00 pm

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Date:
Feb. 3
Time:
2:00 pm
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Venue

Neenah Public Library
240 E. Wisconsin Ave., Neenah, WI 54957 United States
Phone:
9208866315
Website:
www.neenahlibrary.org

Organizer

Neenah Public Library
Phone:
920-886-6335

Adult Afternoon Program: Wisconsin for Kennedy

Join us at the library on Monday, February 3rd at 2:00 pm for a program presented by author, BJ Hollars. BJ Hollars new book, Wisconsin for Kennedy: The Primary That Launched a President and Changed the Course of History, was released last year. Hollars chronicles JFK’s nail-biting Wisconsin win by drawing on rarely cited oral histories from the eclectic team of people who worked together to make it happen: a cranberry farmer, a union leader, a mayor, an architect, and others.
B.J. HOLLARS is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and the founder and director of the Chippewa Valley Writers Guild. His books include Year of Plenty: A Family’s Season of Grief; Go West Young Man: A Father and Son Rediscover America on the Oregon Trail; The Road South: Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders; and Hope Is the Thing: Wisconsinites on Perseverance in a Pandemic. Hollars is the recipient of the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Nonfiction, the Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize, and the Council of Wisconsin Writers’ Blei/Derleth Nonfiction Book Award. His work has been featured in the Washington Post and on NPR.
Books will be available for purchase at the event for only $20.
The hour-long program will take place on the first floor Shattuck Community Room at the Neenah Public Library. All interested individuals are welcome to attend this free event.

Everyone is welcome. If accommodations are needed to attend, please contact the library administrative office at 920-886-6315 or by email at [email protected] at least 24 hours in advance of the program.
This program was made possible by the Friends of the Neenah Public Library and the Neenah Public Library Trust Fund. Donations are always accepted and appreciated.
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