**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Webinar via email.**

Author Cindy Wilson will deliver a presentation based on her book, The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, the Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880–81. Learn about the railroad blockades that kept food and fuel from reaching newly-formed towns in southwestern Minnesota and southeastern Dakota Territory during the Hard Winter of 1880-81. Using the newspaper record, historic photographs, railroad maps, drone photography and video, discover the factors that caused the tracks to clog with snow, along with the struggle to fight the drifts that blocked the trains.

Register directly on Zoom HERE. Presented in collaboration with the Chelmsford Library.

RECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program.

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