The Blue Earth County Library and the Blue Earth County Historical Society are partnering up for a community read of Main Street by Sinclair Lewis. This novel – which satirizes the conformity and ugliness found in small Midwest towns during the 1910s – led in part to Lewis’s eventual 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature. Pick up a copy of Main Street at the library anytime after August 7th, then meet us at the Blue Earth County History Center on Tuesday, September 24th from 6-7 pm to engage in a dynamic discussion about the context of the novel.
Free
This program is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant provided by the Traverse des Sioux Library Cooperative, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.