WARREN READ
Saturday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m.

Edmonds native Warren Read never guessed that his grandfather's beloved father was implicated in a 1920 Duluth lynching—yet a photograph (Dylan's 'They're selling postcards of the hanging ...') and newspaper articles later confirmed this. Now a teacher and father of three in a committed relationship, he talks this evening about his search for the truth about his family, about the black men murdered by a white lynch mob, all and more in his compelling, unflinching book, The Lyncher in Me: A Search for Redemption in the Face of History (Borealis). "This is a rich tapestry, a truly important American story." - Rebecca Walker.

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