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Katherine, The Wright Sister: Author Event with Tracey Enerson Wood (in-person)

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Lectures & Presentations

Age Group:

Adults, Teens

Program Description

Event Details

Tracey Enerson Wood returns to celebrate her new book, Katherine, the Wright Sister. Join us for a presentation by Tracey, and then audience questions and book signings.

About Katherine, the Wright Sister:

She helped her brothers soar… but was the flight worth the fall?

It all started with two boys and a bicycle shop. Wilbur and Orville Wright, both unsuited to college and disinclined to leave home, jumped on the popular new fad of bicycle riding and opened a shop in Dayton, Ohio. Repairing and selling soon led to tinkering and building as the brothers offered improved models to their eager customers. Amid their success, a new dream began to take shape. Engineers across the world were puzzling over how to build a powered flying machine—and Wilbur and Orville wanted in on the challenge. But their younger sister, Katharine, knew they couldn’t do it without her. The three siblings made a pact: the three of them would solve the problem of human flight.

What followed was the kind of fame and fortune the Wrights had never imagined. The siblings traveled the world to demonstrate their invention, trained other pilots, and built new machines that could fly higher and farther. But at the height of their success, tragedy wrenched the Wright family apart… and forced Katharine to make an impossible choice that would haunt her for the rest of her life.

From internationally bestselling author Tracey Enerson Wood, Katherine, the Wright Sister is an unforgettable novel that shines a spotlight on one of the most important and overlooked women in history, and the sacrifices she made so that others might fly.

Co-sponsored by the Avon and Farmington Libraries. 

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Books will be for sale at this event. Plus: audience giveaways!