From Curly Lambeau to the Patron Saint of Libraries: A Biographer’s Journey through Wisconsin History

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UntitledTown Presents: Popular Wisconsin musician and performer Stuart Stotts is also the author of four biographies about Wisconsin history-makers. He brings his storytelling style and historic photos to this presentation sharing facts about the famous and less-known personalities he has researched. These include Curly Lambeau, the founder, star player and coach for the Green Bay Packers, and Lutie Stearns, the Progressive heroine and literacy advocate who established hundreds of traveling libraries throughout Wisconsin between 1895 and 1914. 

Ages 10 through adult.

Stuart Stotts is the author of Books in a Box: Lutie Stearns and the Traveling Libraries of Wisconsin as well as three books in the children’s Badger Biographies Series published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press: Curly Lambeau: Building the Green Bay Packers; Father Groppi: Marching for Civil Rights; and Lucius Fairchild: A Civil War Hero.  

A limited number of Stuart's books will be available for sale and autographing at this event. Stay for coffee and a treat, compliments of the Friends of the Brown County Library.

Presented by UntitledTown, a program of the Friends of Brown County Library in partnership with Brown County Library.