Did you live through the 1960s? Do you want to know what your grandparents or parents did during that time?

Come listen to Trudy read sections from her book and talk about why and how she wrote it. We’ll have time for discussion about activism during the 1960s and draw comparisons to today.

After attending Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois, in the late 1960s, Trudy Knowles stared down camels in Afghanistan, slept in caves in Crete, crossed the equator in Indonesia, ate octopus in Athens, jumped from an airplane for her 50^thbirthday, was arrested numerous times for civil disobedience, and finally wrote Radishes and Red Bandanas, a book about the importance of speaking out against injustice no matter the cost and about the redemptive power of love to heal in times of tragedy.

Radishes and Red Bandanas is a work of historical fiction set in the late 1960s with the backdrop of the Vietnam War protests. In this coming-of-age novel, Becky Jamison confronts the political and cultural turmoil of the times. As a woman, she will never have to fight in a war she doesn’t believe in, but the draft comes to her in its hunger for her brothers, friends, and lovers. She watches their agonizing decisions—go to Canada, jail, or Vietnam. Time and again, Becky finds love and loses it.

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