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Summer Author Series
July 11 @ 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM CDT
Wornall/Majors’ popular book club is going in person! From historic fiction to newly illuminated true stories, there is a book for every reader this summer. There will be three events this summer to hear from authors Gail Blankenau, D.L. Rogers, and Adrian Zink in the Alexander Majors House Museum Barn. Each event will feature a talk from an author, Q&A, and opportunities for the audience to ask questions. Feel free to read the book in advance or come as a fresh slate.
Tickets: $5 / free for WMHM Members
July 11 at 7pm with Gail Blankenau – Uncovering the Grayson Sisters’ Escape from Nebraska Territory
Book description: In late November of 1858 two enslaved Black women—Celia Grayson, age twenty-two, and Eliza Grayson, age twenty—escaped the Stephen F. Nuckolls household in southeastern Nebraska. John Williamson, a man of African American and Cherokee descent from Iowa, guided them through the dark to the Missouri River, where they boarded a skiff and crossed the icy waters, heading for their first stop on the Underground Railroad at Civil Bend, Iowa.
