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Admission is free.
Refreshments will be served.
Scheduled to Appear:
Greg Santos, Susan Stromberg, Collett Tracey & Steve Luxton on the heritage of Louis Dudek
Also Appearing:
Scott Randall, author of ?? ?????? ?????? ?????? & Margaret V. Ostrowski, author of ???? ????????.
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?? ?????? ?????? ?????? unfolds on the most stressful of February days for young worrier Darby Tamm. In the morning, the fifth grader must deliver a pair-presentation with classmate Jennie Phelps-Christianson, and in the afternoon, he must endure a class visit and career-talk on mechanical engineering from his recently
estranged father. Additionally, other stressors complicate his day: The complications confounding Darby intensify throughout his day, culminate in a classroom scuffle, and result in a better understanding of his mom, mechanical engineering, sex, and violence. Taken altogether, An Unruly Little Animal offers readers a poignant and humorous coming-of-age story.
Author Margaret V. Ostrowski (???? ????????), a retired lawyer and psychologist, whose Polish roots were virtually unknown to her while she grew up in a Canadian environment, heard stories from immigrants at her job and she had been always touched by the historical backgrounds of immigrant groups she encountered. So she embarked on a quest toexplore her own heritage – her grandmother (and father’s) home in the Russian Partition of Poland and the journey and settlement here. She found exceptionally potent legacies from her paternal grandmother’s story, including the death of infants, a gold mine, and a Canadian poet. She makes a convincing argument for learning that our ancestral stories are not only valuable for personal inspiration for differing views of how to live but also are very useful in the formulation of immigration opinions and policies today.
Event Venue
2220 McGill College Avenue, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3A3P9