November Book Club Meeting - featuring Author Kathleen Grissom!
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Join us for Ruthmere's November Book Club meeting! New members WELCOME! This meeting will take place at the Beardsley Discovery Center at 819 N. Main St. Elkhart, IN 46514 (behind the Havilah Beardsley House).
Do you love reading books about history? So do we! That's why we created the Ruthmere Book Club - a place where avid readers and history buffs can unite to discuss the stories of the past.
At the meeting on Thursday, November 19, we will discuss "Crow Mary" by Kathleen Grissom (Fiction). Author Kathleen Grissom will be present to answer questions via Zoom!!
Please email book club leader Tehillah Moses ([email protected]) if you are interested in joining the meeting or learning more!
SYNOPSIS:
"In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a Métis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell’s past, falls in love with her husband.
"The winter trading season passes peacefully. Then, on the eve of their return to Montana, a group of drunken whiskey traders slaughters forty Nakota—despite Farwell’s efforts to stop them. Mary, hiding from the hail of bullets, sees the murderers, including Stiller, take five Nakota women back to their fort. She begs Farwell to save them, and when he refuses, Mary takes two guns, creeps into the fort, and saves the women from certain death. Thus, she sets off a whirlwind of colliding cultures that brings out the worst and best in the cast of unforgettable characters and pushes the love between Farwell and Crow Mary to the breaking point."
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The Ruthmere Book Club meets the third Thursday of each month. Books are selected annually, consisting of both fiction and non-fiction. Books are sometimes provided by Book Club leaders or are available from the Elkhart Public Library; contact us for more information.
For a list of all 2026 books, visit https://ruthmere.org/Book-Club/
Do you love reading books about history? So do we! That's why we created the Ruthmere Book Club - a place where avid readers and history buffs can unite to discuss the stories of the past.
At the meeting on Thursday, November 19, we will discuss "Crow Mary" by Kathleen Grissom (Fiction). Author Kathleen Grissom will be present to answer questions via Zoom!!
Please email book club leader Tehillah Moses ([email protected]) if you are interested in joining the meeting or learning more!
SYNOPSIS:
"In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a Métis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell’s past, falls in love with her husband.
"The winter trading season passes peacefully. Then, on the eve of their return to Montana, a group of drunken whiskey traders slaughters forty Nakota—despite Farwell’s efforts to stop them. Mary, hiding from the hail of bullets, sees the murderers, including Stiller, take five Nakota women back to their fort. She begs Farwell to save them, and when he refuses, Mary takes two guns, creeps into the fort, and saves the women from certain death. Thus, she sets off a whirlwind of colliding cultures that brings out the worst and best in the cast of unforgettable characters and pushes the love between Farwell and Crow Mary to the breaking point."
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The Ruthmere Book Club meets the third Thursday of each month. Books are selected annually, consisting of both fiction and non-fiction. Books are sometimes provided by Book Club leaders or are available from the Elkhart Public Library; contact us for more information.
For a list of all 2026 books, visit https://ruthmere.org/Book-Club/
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