View Program of Bone Broth, with Lyndsey Ellis

Bone Broth by Lyndsey Ellis

Click here to view the program on the library’s Youtube channel. A Friends of the Library Virtual Event. Lyndsey Ellis is a St. Louis-born fiction writer, essayist, and cultural worker. She strives to explore intergenerational trauma, hardship, and struggle. Bone Broth is her first novel. Books can be purchased at Neighborhood Reads. Email the library if you wish to receive an invitation to participate and ask questions via Zoom – library@washmo.gov.

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View “The Potato Masher Murder”

Image of Potato Masher Murder

Where: Event was broadcast live on the library’s Youtube Channel. June 24, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm A Friends of the Library Event. Retired journalist Gary Sosniecki of Lebanon, Missouri, is the great-grandson of the victim. Following his graduation from the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Gary worked at newspapers in four states during a 43-year career that included owning three Missouri weekly newspapers and publishing The Lebanon Daily Record. He has received dozens of awards for journalism excellence from state, national, and international newspaper organizations including, with his wife Helen, the Eugene Cervi lifetime-achievement award from the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors. Gary and his wife were inducted into the Missouri Press Association Hall of Fame in 2014. His book, The Potato Masher Murder: Death at the Hands of a Jealous Husband, is published by The Kent State University Press. June 24, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

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