Eva MacDonald |
Retired
University of Wisconsin-Superior professor Richard Hudelson will present a
program about women in the labor movement from 1880 to 1930 in the Western Lake
Superior region. The program is part of the library’s One Book, One Community
area-wide reading project.
The
talk, titled “Not Small Souled Creatures,” begins at 10:30 a.m. March 23 at the Cloquet Public Library. Richard Hudelson chose the title from
a March 10, 1914 letter from Orvokki of Pike, Minnesota that appeared in
Toveritar. Hudelson states “The relevant part reads as follows: "We
women of Pike ought to show that we are people too, and not small souled creatures." If there is anything that seems to me to
unite the different women I want to talk about, other than their being women
active in the labor movement, it is how impressive each is as a thinking,
feeling, active person. “
During the
turn-of-the-century era, women in the Northland fought for a better world for
women, workers and those who came after them as did the main character in this
year’s One Book title, “Clara and Mr. Tiffany” by Susan Vreeland. Hudelson will
provide vignettes of some of the women active in the labor movement in the
region.
The
program is free and open to the public. Hudelson will also present the
program at 6:30 p.m.
March 18 in the Green Room at the downtown Duluth Public Library and at noon March 21 at the Virginia Public Library.
Friends of the Duluth Public Library, Duluth Public
Library Foundation, Minnesota Legacy Amendment Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund
are primary funders of the 2013 One Book, One Community project in partnership
with the Duluth Public Library, the Cloquet Public Library, Friends of the
Cloquet Public Library, Arrowhead Library System, Arrowhead Reading Council,
The Bookstore at Fitger’s, Duluth Public Schools, Fitger’s Inn, Virginia Public
Library and Friends of the Virginia Public Library.
Updated information about One Book, One Community
events are listed on the Duluth library’s website, www.duluth.lib.mn.us.
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