[Michlib-l] help out author Mary Doria Russell - looking for anecdotes, memories about the UP

[Cathy Sullivan Seblonka]

It's Ana K (Annie) Clemenc, btw.

> Hello all,
>
> The message below is from Mary Doria Russell (author of The Sparrow,
> Children of God, A Thread of Grace, Dreamers of the Day, Doc and Epitaph).
>  It was posted on her blog, not sent to me directly!
>
>
> "Once again, I’m turning to you for help with the next novel. An
> Unremembered Life (yes, new working title) is the story of Annie Clements,
> who was once known around the world as America’s Joan of Arc. This
> extraordinary 25-year-old woman was a pivotal figure in the labor movement
> of the Progressive Age. In 1913, she led a strike that shut down 20 copper
> mines for nearly a year in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
>
> Obviously, there are few (if any) people who remember those days directly,
> but I’m hoping some of you have family memories of strikes that have
> been passed down. The strikes don’t need to be as early as 1913, nor do
> they have to be about striking miners. They could also be about
> storekeepers in towns where a strike is ongoing, for example.
>
> Because the novel is about a strike at a copper company where there were
> only two women employed (as office workers), I’m particularly interested
> in the experience of the wives and children of strikers because so little
> has been written about them.
>
> How were food and clothing collected and shared? What kind of meals women
> managed to put on the table, what sort of support they got from other
> unions, etc. Did the children continue to go to school in company towns?
> How were they affected?
>
> I’m also interested in family anecdotes that demonstrate the strikers’
> reaction to prolonged idleness, tension over how long the strike would go
> on.”
>
> Respond directly to her via email (marydoriarussell at gmail.com) or comment
> on her blog post
> (http://marydoriarussell.net/2016/03/24/writing-what-you-know-4/)
>
> Debbi
>
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Cathy Sullivan Seblonka
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Peter White Public Library
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