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Local Author Donna Schuessler Bean

Presentation about her Book, That's Just the Way It Was.

2025-05-06 18:00:00 2025-05-06 19:30:00 America/Chicago Local Author Donna Schuessler Bean Join us to learn about the life of an Iowa farm girl born during the Great Depression Hiawatha Public Library - Glenn Schminke Room 103.2

Tuesday, May 06
6:00pm - 7:30pm

Add to Calendar 2025-05-06 18:00:00 2025-05-06 19:30:00 America/Chicago Local Author Donna Schuessler Bean Join us to learn about the life of an Iowa farm girl born during the Great Depression Hiawatha Public Library - Glenn Schminke Room 103.2

Hiawatha Public Library

Glenn Schminke Room 103.2

Join us to learn about the life of an Iowa farm girl born during the Great Depression

Hear her story as she travels into the high-tech world of the 21st century. She was born into a "Father Knows Best" world where men had jobs and women stayed home with the children to cook and clean, a world where women had just gotten the right to vote only a few years before

AGE GROUP: | Adults (18+) |

EVENT TYPE: | Speaker |

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