Mt. Pleasant
Neighborhood Library

Saturday, April 20 at 2 p.m.
Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library

Mt. Pleasant started as a post-Civil War country village, but most of the neighborhood we know today was built after the streetcar arrived in 1903. Historian Mara Cherkasky will use maps and images to take you back to Mt. Pleasant's origins and allow you to see how it developed as it did. Cherkasky has written several accounts of Mt. Pleasant's history and has led numerous walking tours of the neighborhood.

Lucky is a PAL volunteer and visits the Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library regularly.

Here are ten details about Lucky, the sweet lady:

1.  She is 7 years old.

Called the Great Migration by historians, the years 1915-1970 witnessed the largest movement of people in the history of the United States, greater than the Gold Rush of the 1850s or the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Fed up with their circumstances in a South that offered little chance at a decent life, black Americans migrated north and west to seek out a better life.

Curl up, get cozy, and read!

The Crow-Girl By Bodil Bredsdorff JUV J BREDSDORFF After the death of her grandmother, a young orphaned girl leaves her house by the cove and begins a journey that leads her to people and experiences that exemplify the wisdom her grandmother had shared with her. 155 pages.