Interested in joining a book club? Try our Between the Lines Book Club! We have three different sessions including afternoons and an evening to ensure there\u2019s a time that works for you! Did we mention there\u2019s FREE refreshments?<\/p>\n
This month we\u2019ll be discussing \u201cThe Canary Girls\u201d by Jennifer Chiaverini! Stop by the Aurora or Dillsboro Library to pick up your copy today!<\/p>\n
Aurora: Thursday, January 22nd<\/sup> @ 1 pm \u201cEarly in the Great War, men left Britain\u2019s factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. \u201cBe the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun,\u201d the recruitment posters beckoned.<\/p>\n Thousands of women\u2014cooks, maids, shopgirls, and housewives\u2014answered their nation\u2019s call. These \u201cmunitionettes\u201d worked grueling shifts often seven days a week, handling TNT and other explosives with little protective gear.<\/p>\n Among them is nineteen-year-old former housemaid April Tipton. Impressed by her friend Marjorie\u2019s descriptions of higher wages, plentiful meals, and comfortable lodgings, she takes a job at Thornshire Arsenal near London, filling shells in the Danger Building\u2014difficult, dangerous, and absolutely essential work.<\/p>\n Joining them is Lucy Dempsey, wife of Daniel Dempsey, Olympic gold medalist and star forward of Tottenham Hotspur. With Daniel away serving in the Footballers\u2019 Battalion, Lucy resolves to do her bit to hasten the end of the war. When her coworkers learn she is a footballer\u2019s wife, they invite her to join the arsenal ladies\u2019 football club, the Thornshire Canaries.<\/p>\n The Canaries soon acquire an unexpected fan in the boss\u2019s wife, Helen Purcell, who is deeply troubled by reports that Danger Building workers suffer from serious, unexplained illnesses. One common symptom, the lurid yellow hue of their skin, earns them the nickname \u201ccanary girls.\u201d Suspecting a connection between the canary girls\u2019 maladies and the chemicals they handle, Helen joins the arsenal administration as their staunchest, though often unappreciated, advocate.<\/p>\n The football pitch is the one place where class distinctions and fears for their men fall away. As the war grinds on and tragedy takes its toll, the Canary Girls persist despite the dangers, proud to serve, determined to outlive the war and rejoice in victory and peace.\u201d -Goodreads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Interested in joining a book club? Try our Between the Lines Book Club! We have three different sessions including afternoons and an evening to ensure there\u2019s a time that works for you! Did we mention there\u2019s FREE refreshments? This month we\u2019ll be discussing \u201cThe Canary Girls\u201d by Jennifer Chiaverini! Stop by the Aurora or Dillsboro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[252],"mec_category":[6],"class_list":["post-5565","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-adult-book-club","mec_category-adult-programs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/5565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5565"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=5565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDillsboro: Friday, January 23rd<\/sup> @ 1 pm
\nAurora: Tuesday, January 27th<\/sup> @ 6 pm<\/p>\n