Author Christine McDonnell will speak at the Craftsbury Public Library on Thursday, August 4, at 6pm.

For over forty years Kip Tiernan fought tirelessly for the rights of poor women and women in need of housing. She created programs in Boston to provide them with shelter, food, medical help, legal assistance and education. Christine McDonnell's book, Sanctuary: Kip Tiernan and Rosie's Place, the Nation's First Shelter for Women (Candlewick, 2022) celebrates Kip's work. Christine will speak about her research into Kip's life and work and read from Kip's writing.

"We must, somehow, find ways to make a difference in somebody's life today. It begins by caring and by standing up for someone else and by being willing to take the risk of being human....If not you, who? If not now, when?" Kip Tiernan, 1993.

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