If you will be in Minneapolis on Thursday, April 18th, please join me from 6:30-8:00pm at East Side Neighborhood Services where I will be giving a program and signing my new memoir SETTLEMENT HOUSE GIRL: Growing Up in the 1950s at North East Neighborhood House.
Find out what it was like to live at a working settlement house in the 1950s. Learn about the early days of Camp Bovey, the ESNS camp founded by my father Les Scheaffer, now celebrating its 75th year. Learn about the roots of my future career as a writer, and how these experiences shaped my view of the world.
Until I was ten I lived with my family at North East Neighborhood House, a settlement house in Northeast Minneapolis, now East Side Neighborhood Services. The 38 chapters of the book range from my first days at the NENH nursery school, to after school clubs and community holiday celebrations at the settlement house, to family and school life. Four of the chapters are about my summers at Camp Bovey and their connection to NENH. Few families lived in settlement houses as ours did. When my family moved out, it was the end of an era.
I hope you will be able to come!
East Side Neighborhood Services
1700 2nd Street NE
Minneapolis, Minnesota 54513
For more information, contact ESNS at 612-781-6011
SETTLEMENT HOUSE GIRL: Growing Up in the 1950s at North East Neighborhood House is available at Amazon or to order at your favorite book store.