Barb will discuss her book Army Guy, Red Cross Gal.
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Army Guy and Red Cross Gal: World War II Through the Eyes of Two Small-Town Hoosiers
By Barbara Olenyik Morrow
During World War II, Auburn attorney Bill Husselman served as a military police lieutenant with U.S. General George S. Patton's Third Army as it marched across northwest Europe. Auburn music teacher Mary Brandon served as an American Red Cross club worker in Italy as Allied troops slogged up the peninsula. Never did Bill’s and Mary’s paths cross overseas, never did their duties – wildly different – overlap.
But their similar backgrounds (they were friends before the war) and their distinct voices and perspectives (as gleaned from wartime letters) form the heart of Barbara Olenyik Morrow’s latest book, Army Guy, Red Cross Gal: The Lives & Letters of Two Small-Town Hoosiers Who Helped Win World War II, written in collaboration with Ellen England.
Bill’s and Mary’s stories are separate and riveting. Morrow’s lecture on Saturday, September 14 (10:30-11:30 a.m.) will highlight why these war-era stories merit our attention.
Morrow is the author of seven books, most focusing on Indiana history. Her books have featured college basketball coaching legend John Wooden, nature writer Gene Stratton-Porter, and famed Underground Railroad leader Levi Coffin. A former journalist who has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Morrow lectures extensively around the state. Autographed copies of her book (hardback, $27, paperback, $22) will be available before and after her presentation that day.
AGE GROUP: | Adult |
EVENT TYPE: | Lecture/Speaker/Author | Book Club & Discussion Groups |
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