Join Pikes Peak Library District's Special Collections and award winning author and historian Alice Echols at an event celebrating her new nonfiction book, Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking—the true story of how her grandfather made off with more than $20 million (in today's dollars) of Colorado Springs depositors' money during the 1930s. Echols will describe the local scandal and the secret family history she uncovered after more than a decade of research. "Echols’s absorbing portrait makes Main Street the rival of Wall Street for callous corruption." Publishers Weekly "A lively and informative treatment in which one man’s rise and fall opens a window onto a long-overlooked historical landscape in all its finely drawn detail." Kirkus Review Books will be available for purchase and signing after the presentation. Join guest speaker Dr. Greg Liverman at the Fountain Library to learn more about using DNA testing to trace your family history using free online websites.
Fountain Library, 230 South Main St. Thu., July 6, 2017, 7 – 8:30 p.m. No registration is required for this free event. |
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