Meet novelist and Glencoe native Stephen Kanne

Glencoe native Stephen Kanne reads from and discusses his new novel, The Lynching Waltz, the story of how a small community came to the defense of its black children in 1947 and unwittingly sowed the early seeds of the Civil Rights Movement. Join us on Saturday, June 18th at 3 PM.

Inspired by an actual racist incident of the author’s youth, this is a remarkable story of how the good people of tiny Glencoe, Illinois, blunted a racist assault against its black children. Because all participants are gone and because what precisely occurred is unknown, the book has become a work of historical fiction.