Join historian Greg Olson for a discussion of this year's \;One Read book\, "North Woods" by Daniel Mason. Begi nning with a young couple fleeing their Puritan colony\, this work of hist orical fiction follows a series of inhabitants of a single house in New En gland. Mason links the stories of an eccentric apple grower and his daught ers\, an escaped enslaved woman and a man who is hunting her\, a landscape painter\, a spiritualist/clairvoyant\, a man with schizophrenia and other s. He expertly employs a range of literary styles\, including letters\, pu lp journalism and speculative fiction\, to tell the story of the United St ates through the lens of a single location.
\nDiscussion leader Greg Olson is a historian and graphic artist who lives in Columbia\, Missouri. Olson is the author of six books including "Indigenous Missourians: Ancient Societies to the Present." For 35 years\, he has worked with members of various Indigenous tribes to tell stories of Native presence in Iowa\, Kansas\, M issouri and Oklahoma. He is also the chair of the For the People Powwow Co mmittee\, which hosts an intertribal powwow in Jefferson City\, Missouri\, each Memorial Day weekend.
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