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| Boegelsack to relay 'legal immigrant' story |
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| Brown Bag lecture series |
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By ICFP community/schools reporter - Lorie Palmer
GRANGEVILLE -- Area residents are invited to the summer Brown Bag sessions, set for each Wednesday at the Bicentennial Historical Museum.
Each session is set at the museum's basement meeting room, 305 N. College, Wednesdays, noon to 1 p.m.
Today, Wednesday, Sept. 1, Barbara Hansen of Grangeville will present the program "Raised on Room Service."
Next Wednesday, Sept. 8, E. "Abe" Boegelsack of Grangeville will present his narrative, "The Story of a Legal Immigrant."
"I will discuss my early impressions of the end of WWII, growing up in Communist East Germany and the struggle for survival as well as planning for and accomplishing an escape," Boegelsack said.
He was born and raised in Germany, escaped from East Germany and immigrated to the United States. He worked various jobs, made it though high school and college and then taught for 30 years.
"I will talk about how I got my relatives out of East Germany and how I appreciate democracy and life in the U.S.," he said.
Brown Bag programs are sponsored by the Idaho County Historical Society and the Bicentennial Historical Museum. They are free and the public is encouraged to attend.
Upcoming sessions include the following:
à Sept. 15: Border Days Memoirs by Kraig Schlottman and Clyde Hanson of Grangeville
à Sept. 22: Mac's Buzz by Irma Geis of Post Falls
à Sept. 29: Pictorial History of the Elk City Stage Line by Mike Peterson of Grangeville
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