by Jennifer Sierra | Apr 5, 2022 | Blog, Blog: Programs, News: Great Michigan Read
The Great Michigan Read Spring Tour is starting with a virtual event on April 5 hosted by the St Clair County Library. Then, Mary Doria Russell will travel for in-person events in the Upper Peninsula and finish out the tour with a virtual event on May 10 (please see...
by Diane Hoban | Apr 5, 2021 | News: Great Michigan Read
Residents throughout Michigan are invited to join in reading and discussing “The Women of the Copper Country,” Mary Doria Russell’s account of 25-year-old Annie Clements as she stood up for the miners and their families during the 1913 copper strike. The book is...
by Diane Hoban | Apr 1, 2021 | News: Great Michigan Read
Michigan Humanities has just announced that Mary Doria Russell’s riveting account of 25-year-old Annie Clements as she stood up for the miners and their families during the 1913 copper strikes, was selected as the 2021-2022 Great Michigan Read, unveiled during Women’s...
by Diane Hoban | Mar 31, 2021 | News: Great Michigan Read
The Women of the Copper Country” written by Mary Doria Russell was chosen by Michigan Humanities for the 2021-2022 Great Michigan Read.The book tells the story of 25-year-old Annie Clements who stood up for miners and their families during the 1913 copper strikes....
by Diane Hoban | Mar 22, 2021 | News: Great Michigan Read
Tecumseh District Library is offering another presentation on “What the Eyes Don’t See,” the book on the Flint water crisis written by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha. This next virtual presentation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 23. Registration is required for this...
by Diane Hoban | Mar 22, 2021 | News: Great Michigan Read
A virtual conversation with the doctor who uncovered the Flint water crisis will be held Monday. Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha exposed the crisis that contaminated Flint’s water after the city’s supply was switched to the Flint River in 2014 without being properly treated....