Author Tamara Dean will present a chapter from her book “Shelter and Storm: at Home in the Driftless.” The book is composed of several essays Dean wrote while living near Viola, in the Driftless area.
Any one of these chapters, highlighting such topics as floods, rural neighbors, and constructing one's house out of homemade bricks, would make for a fascinating program. However, the topic of her May 3 talk is “What the Light is Hiding” adapted from the chapter “Night Vision.”
The presentation tells the story of Jennie Harerbo, who would challenge the efforts of the Rural Electrification Administration to bring electricity to her Driftless address in 1937. Dean’s program illuminates this interesting historical episode, and what, in fact, the observant might see in the dark.
There is no registration or fee required to attend the program.
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