BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//100 Rural Women - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://100ruralwomen.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for 100 Rural Women REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20210314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20211107T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20220313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20221106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20260308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20261101T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250514T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250514T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T080506 CREATED:20250129T021304Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250129T021311Z UID:11519-1747249200-1747252800@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:Book Club DESCRIPTION:Connect with other readers! Discuss the book\, ask questions\, and share your thoughts with people who are also reading! URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/book-club-7/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250409T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250409T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T080506 CREATED:20250129T021221Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250305T150145Z UID:11517-1744225200-1744228800@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:Book Club DESCRIPTION:Connect with other readers! Discuss the book\, ask questions\, and share your thoughts with people who are also reading! URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/book-club-6/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250312T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250312T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T080506 CREATED:20250129T015240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250129T015240Z UID:11478-1741806000-1741809600@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:Book Club DESCRIPTION:Connect with other readers! Discuss the book\, ask questions\, and share your thoughts with people who are also reading! URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/book-club-5/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250212T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T080506 CREATED:20250129T015033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250129T015033Z UID:11479-1739386800-1739390400@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:Book Club DESCRIPTION:Connect with other readers! Discuss the book\, ask questions\, and share your thoughts with people who are also reading! URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/book-club-2/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241210T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241210T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T080506 CREATED:20240913T124737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240914T030207Z UID:10979-1733857200-1733860800@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:Book Club DESCRIPTION:Connect with other readers! Discuss the book\, ask questions\, and share your thoughts with people who are also reading! URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/book-club-3/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241113T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241113T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T080506 CREATED:20240913T125117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240914T030305Z UID:10981-1731524400-1731528000@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:Book Club DESCRIPTION:Connect with other readers! Discuss the book\, ask questions\, and share your thoughts with people who are also reading! URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/book-club-4/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241009T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241009T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T080506 CREATED:20240912T013636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T132505Z UID:10966-1728500400-1728504000@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:Book Club DESCRIPTION:Connect with other readers! Discuss the book\, ask questions\, and share your thoughts with people who are also reading! \nRegister HERE \nThe Women is the story of one woman gone to war\, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm’s way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten. A novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism\, The Women is a richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era. \nMore about this book HERE URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/book-club/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/TheWomen-Cover-2307.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240410T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240410T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T080506 CREATED:20240320T194139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240320T194139Z UID:10221-1712775600-1712779200@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:April Book Group: Horse DESCRIPTION:Register Here:  \nKentucky\, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war\, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night\, he reunites with the stallion and his groom\, very far from the glamor of any racetrack. New York City\, 1954. Martha Jackson\, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters\, becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance. Washington\, DC\, 2019. Jess\, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia\, and Theo\, a Nigerian-American art historian\, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse–one studying the stallion’s bones for clues to his power and endurance\, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success. Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington\, Horse is a novel of art and science\, love and obsession\, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.\nMore about this book URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/https-us02web-zoom-us-meeting-register-tzerceigpzgig9n2g8xumemjxo3x3gbeqcfi_x_zm_rtaiddxri9abns7qg9wcn5eu8qg-1674450175216-1d575976d09d80590f73ee11b4ae59f4_x_zm_rhtaid261-registration/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-20-at-2.39.37-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231011T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231011T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T080506 CREATED:20231007T165037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231008T010523Z UID:9167-1697050800-1697054400@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:October Book Group: Braiding Sweetgrass By: Robin Wall Kimmerer DESCRIPTION:Register HERE\nDrawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist\, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things―from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen―provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass. With informative sidebars\, reflection questions\, and art from illustrator Nicole Neidhardt\, Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults brings Indigenous wisdom\, scientific knowledge\, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation. \nMore about this book URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/october-book-group-braiding-sweetgrass-by-by-robin-wall-kimmerer/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/17465709.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230614T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230614T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T080506 CREATED:20230520T140618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230613T154542Z UID:8441-1686769200-1686772800@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:June Book Group: Windfall - The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way… By: Erika Bolstad DESCRIPTION:Register HERE\nAt first\, Erika Bolstad knew only one thing about her great-grandmother\, Anna: she was a homesteader on the North Dakota prairies in the early 1900s before her husband committed her to an asylum under mysterious circumstances. As Erika’s mother was dying\, she revealed more. Their family still owned the mineral rights to Anna’s land―and oil companies were interested in the black gold beneath the prairies. Their family\, Erika learned\, could get rich thanks to the legacy of a woman nearly lost to history. \nMore about this book URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/book-group-windfall-the-prairie-woman-who-lost-her-way-by-erika-bolstad/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-13-at-7.10.11-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230510T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230510T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T080506 CREATED:20230510T025139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230613T154224Z UID:8179-1683745200-1683748800@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:May Book Group: In Reach By: Pamela Carter Joern DESCRIPTION:Register HERE\nIn Reach\nBy: Pamela Carter Joern\nIn writing both rich and evocative\, Pamela Carter Joern conjures the small plains town of Reach\, Nebraska\, where residents are stuck tight in the tension between loneliness and the risks of relationships. \nMore about this book URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/book-group-in-reach-by-pamela-carter-joern/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/712Yxym9qNL._AC_UF10001000_QL80_-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230208T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T080506 CREATED:20230208T143150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230208T143150Z UID:7921-1675882800-1675882800@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:February Book Club: We Should all be Feminists DESCRIPTION:This is  a small but powerful book.  Please join us for the discussion of We Should All Be Feminists By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.  What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists\, a personal\, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-viewed TEDx talk of the same name—by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\, the award-winning author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/february-book-club-we-should-all-be-feminists/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/94F42CA6-D254-4E0E-9E00-77A76973D84B.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230111T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230111T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T080506 CREATED:20221207T195705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221207T195747Z UID:7706-1673463600-1673467200@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:January Book Club - Where the Crawdads Sing DESCRIPTION:This month we will be reading Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens! \nRegister for our Book Club! \nBook Synopsis\nFor years\, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove\, a quiet fishing village. Kya Clark is barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969\, when the popular Chase Andrews is found dead\, locals immediately suspect her. \nBut Kya is not what they say. A born naturalist with just one day of school\, she takes life’s lessons from the land\, learning the real ways of the world from the dishonest signals of fireflies. But while she has the skills to live in solitude forever\, the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. Drawn to two young men from town\, who are each intrigued by her wild beauty\, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world–until the unthinkable happens. \nIn Where the Crawdads Sing\, Owens juxtaposes an exquisite ode to the natural world against a profound coming of age story and haunting mystery. Thought-provoking\, wise\, and deeply moving\, Owens’s debut novel reminds us that we are forever shaped by the child within us\, while also subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps. \nThe story asks how isolation influences the behavior of a young woman\, who like all of us\, has the genetic propensity to belong to a group. The clues to the mystery are brushed into the lush habitat and natural histories of its wild creatures. \nResources\n\n About the Book\n \n\n\n About the Author\n \n\n\n Book Review\n \n\n\n Watch the Movie\n \n\n\n  URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/january-book-club-where-the-crawdads-sing-event/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221214T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221214T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T080506 CREATED:20221104T214309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221104T214309Z UID:7525-1671044400-1671048000@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:December Book Club - The Road Back to Sweetgrass DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nThis month we will be reading The Road Back to Sweetgrass by Linda LeGarde Grover! \nRegister for our Book Club! \nBook Synopsis\nSet in northern Minnesota\, The Road Back to Sweetgrass follows Dale Ann\, Theresa\, and Margie\, a trio of American Indian women\, from the 1970s to the present. The story observes their coming of age and the intersection of their lives as they navigate love\, economic hardship\, loss\, and changing family dynamics on the fictional Mozhay Point reservation. As young women\, all three leave their homes. Margie and Theresa go to Duluth for college and work. When there\, Theresa gets to know a handsome Indian boy\, Michael Washington. Soon\, he invites her home to the Sweetgrass land allotment to meet his father\, Zho Wash\, who lives in the original allotment cabin. When Margie accompanies her\, complicated relationships are set into motion\, and tensions over “real Indian-ness” emerge. \nDale Ann\, Margie\, and Theresa find themselves pulled back again and again to the Sweetgrass allotment\, a silent but ever-present entity in the book. Sweetgrass itself is a plant used in the Ojibwe ceremonial odissimaa bag\, containing a newborn baby’s umbilical cord. In a powerful final chapter\, Zho Wash tells the story of the first days of the allotment. Specifically\, when the Wazhushkag\, or Muskrat\, family became transformed into the Washingtons by the pen of a federal Indian agent. This sense of place and home is both tangible and spiritual. The author\, Linda LeGarde Grover skillfully connects it with the experience of Native women who came of age during the days of the federal termination policy and the struggle for tribal self-determination. \nThe Road Back to Sweetgrass is a novel that moves between past and present\, the Native and the non-Native\, history and myth\, and tradition and survival\, as the people of Mozhay Point navigate traumatic historical events and federal Indian policies while looking ahead to future generations and the continuation of the Anishinaabe people. \nResources\n\n About the Book\n \n\n\n About the Author\n \n\n\n Book Review\n \n\n\n  URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/december-book-club-the-road-back-to-sweetgrass/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221109T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221109T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T080506 CREATED:20221104T213912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221104T213912Z UID:7522-1668020400-1668024000@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:November Book Club - The Undocumented Americans DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nThis month we will be reading The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio! \nRegister for our Book Club! \nBook Synopsis\nOne of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation. \nWriter Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on DACA when she decided to write about being undocumented for the first time using her own name. It was right after the election of 2016\, the day she realized the story she’d tried to steer clear of was the only one she wanted to tell. So she wrote her immigration lawyer’s phone number on her hand in Sharpie. Then\, she embarked on a trip across the country to tell the stories of her fellow undocumented immigrants–and to find the hidden key to her own. \nLooking beyond the flashpoints of the border or the activism of the DREAMers\, Cornejo Villavicencio explores the lives of the undocumented–and the mysteries of her own life. She finds the nation of singular\, effervescent characters often reduced in the media to political pawns or nameless laborers. The stories she tells are not deferential or naively inspirational. But\, they show the love\, magic\, heartbreak\, insanity\, and vulgarity that infuse the day-to-day lives of her subjects. \nIn New York\, we meet the undocumented workers who were recruited into the federally funded Ground Zero cleanup after 9/11. Then\, in Miami\, we enter the ubiquitous botanicas\, which offer medicinal herbs and potions to those whose status blocks them from any other healthcare options. Up in Flint\, Michigan\, we learn of demands for state ID in order to receive life-saving clean water. Lastly\, in Connecticut\, Cornejo Villavicencio\, childless by choice\, finds family in two teenage girls whose father is in sanctuary. And through it all we see the author grappling with the biggest questions of love\, duty\, family\, and survival. \nIn her incandescent\, relentlessly probing voice\, Cornejo Villavicencio combines sensitive reporting and powerful personal narratives to bring to light remarkable stories of resilience\, madness\, and death. Through these stories we come to understand what it truly means to be a stray. An expendable. A hero. An American. \nResources\n\n About the Book\n \n\n\n About the Author\n \n\n\n Book Review\n \n\n\n  URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/november-book-club-the-undocumented-americans/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220914T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220914T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T080506 CREATED:20220708T185805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220822T144942Z UID:6387-1663182000-1663185600@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:September Book Club - In Spite of Heroin DESCRIPTION:This month we will be reading In Spite of Heroin by Dana Chase! \nRegister for our Book Club! \nBook synopsis\nAn idyllic upbringing\, unconditional love\, and the serenity of the Heartland USA were not enough to shield this close-knit family from heroin. In her moving\, ultimately hopeful narrative of struggle and redemption\, Dana Chase writes unsparingly of how she survived the shock of learning that her beautiful identical twin sons had become heroin addicts and the terror that unfolded as a result. \nChase and her husband returned to North Dakota in 1993 when their twins were ten months old to give them the same benefits she had as a child. But steadfast family values\, and the manageable pace of North Dakota did not work their charm this time around. By the time the boys were twenty they were drug dealers\, heroin addicts\, and felons. \nThis family’s catastrophic status quo included overdoses\, attempted suicide\, court-mandated stays at rehab centers\, and countless cycles of incarceration\, including a federal indictment\, none of which had been anywhere near Chase’s maternal radar. Chase had lived her entire adult life believing ‘what you think about\, you bring about.’ In spite of her innate optimism she wondered… if I wasn’t thinking about it\, how’d I bring it about? \nThis is a cautionary tale that delivers a blunt impact of reality to any parent who believes ‘this can’t happen to our family’. It portrays a courageous mother and her attempts to save her sons from wasted lives and tragic drug-related deaths. \nIn Spite Of Heroin reveals a parent’s nightmare and the struggle of a lifetime. Eminently readable\, In Spite Of Heroin is a shocking true story that readers will sacrifice sleep to finish. \nResources\n\n About the Book\n \n\n\n About the Author\n \n\n\n Book Review\n \n\n\n  URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/september-book-club-in-spite-of-heroin/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220810T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220810T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T080506 CREATED:20220708T183458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220708T183458Z UID:6369-1660158000-1660161600@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:August Book Club - Go Set a Watchman DESCRIPTION:This month we will be reading Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee! \nRegister for our Book Club! \nBook synopsis\nFrom Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece\, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb\, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch— “Scout”—returns home from New York City to visit her aging father\, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South\, Jean Louise’s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family\, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back\, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt.  \nFeaturing many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird\, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman\, and a world\, in a painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past—a journey that can be guided only by one’s conscience. Written in the mid-1950s\, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller\, richer understanding and appreciation of Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom\, humanity\, passion\, humor and effortless precision—a profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times. It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of To Kill a Mockingbird\, but also serves as its essential companion\, adding depth\, context and new meaning to an American classic. \nResources\n\n About the Book\n \n\n\n Author website\n \n\n\n Book Review\n \n\n\n  URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/august-book-club-go-set-a-watchman/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220713T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220713T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T080506 CREATED:20220630T200629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220630T203506Z UID:6290-1657738800-1657742400@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:July Book Club - Radium Girls DESCRIPTION:This month we will be reading Radium Girls by Kate Moore! \nRegister for our Book Club! \nBook synopsis\nThe Curies’ newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty\, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water\, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War. \nMeanwhile\, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. The glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe; they light up the night like industrious fireflies. With such a coveted job\, these “shining girls” are the luckiest alive – until they begin to fall mysteriously ill. \nBut the factories that once offered golden opportunities are now ignoring all claims of the gruesome side effects\, and the women’s cries of corruption. And as the fatal poison of the radium takes hold\, the brave shining girls find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of America’s early 20th century\, and in a groundbreaking battle for workers’ rights that will echo for centuries to come. \nWritten with a sparkling voice and breakneck pace\, The Radium Girls fully illuminates the inspiring young women exposed to the “wonder” substance of radium\, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances. Their courage and tenacity led to life-changing regulations\, research into nuclear bombing\, and ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of lives. \nResources\n\n About the Book\n \n\n\n Author website\n \n\n\n Book Review\n \n\n\n  URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/july-book-club-radium-girls/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220511T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220511T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T080506 CREATED:20220502T132459Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220502T143725Z UID:5899-1652295600-1652299200@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:May Book Club - Educated DESCRIPTION:This month we will be reading Educated by Tara Westover! \nRegister for our Book Club! \nBook synopsis\nTara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho\, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her “head-for-the-hills bag”. In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother\, a midwife and healer\, and in the winter she salvaged in her father’s junkyard. Her father forbade hospitals\, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions\, even burns from explosions\, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. Then\, lacking any formal education\, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University\, where she studied history\, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her\, taking her over oceans and across continents\, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far\, if there was still a way home. Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers\, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one’s life through new eyes and the will to change it. \nResources\n\n About the Book\n \n\n\n Author website\n \n\n\n Book Review\n \n\n\n  URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/may-book-club-educated/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-13-at-4.31.24-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220413T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220413T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T080506 CREATED:20220322T140307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220322T140406Z UID:5425-1649876400-1649880000@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:April Book Club - Girl Runner DESCRIPTION:This month\, we will be reading “Girl Runner” by Carrie Snyder. \nRegister for our Book Club! \nBook synopsis\nGirl Runner is the story of Aganetha Smart\, a pioneering athlete who captured world attention during the 1928 Olympics. Now\, at the age of 104\, alone\, and in a nursing home\, she seems forgotten by history. But for the competitive and ambitious Aganetha\, life remains present and unfinished in her mind. When her quiet routine is disturbed by two strangers\, the past rattles up to meet them all. \nResources\n\n About the book\n \n\n\n Author website\n \n\n\n Book Review\n \n\n\n  URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/april-book-club-girl-runner/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-13-at-5.25.06-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220309T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220309T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T080506 CREATED:20220302T155755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220302T161101Z UID:5168-1646852400-1646856000@100ruralwomen.org SUMMARY:March Book Club - Nomadland DESCRIPTION:This month\, we will be reading “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century” by Jessica Bruder. \nRegister for our Book Club! \nBook synopsis\nFrom the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas\, employers have discovered a new\, low-cost labor pool\, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that Social Security comes up short\, often underwater on mortgages\, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs\, travel trailers\, and vans\, forming a growing community of nomads: migrant laborers who call themselves “workampers.” \nIn a secondhand van she names “Halen\,” Jessica Bruder hits the road to get to know her subjects more intimately. Accompanying her irrepressible protagonist\, Linda May\, and others from campground toilet cleaning to warehouse product scanning to desert reunions\, then moving on to the dangerous work of beet harvesting\, Bruder tells a compelling\, eye-opening tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy—one that foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. At the same time\, she celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of these quintessential Americans who have given up ordinary rootedness to survive. Like Linda May\, who dreams of finding land on which to build her own sustainable “Earthship” home\, they have not given up hope. \nResources\n\n Author Interview\n \n\n\n Author website\n \n\n\n CSPAN Interview\n \n\n\n Q&A with Author\n \n\n\n  URL:https://100ruralwomen.org/event/nomadland-book-club/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://100ruralwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-11-at-8.26.06-PM.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR