The Girls

Our next book club selection is The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson.

We are hoping to have the next meeting mid January. Either 1/17 or 1/24, please let us know which date is best for you. This will be a Chicago themed meeting...hotdogs, deep dish pizza, beer, etc.

Hopefully you will all be able to join! Keep in mind, it's great if you read the book, but if you would like to come for the company and food-please do!

The Devil in the White City:

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his “World’s Fair Hotel” just west of the fairgrounds—a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.

The Help

November 8th:


We all had a wonderful time at Tracey's home in Andover!

It seems that everyone enjoyed The Help and we had a wonderful meal in honor of the book. Mint Julep Martinis, Chicken Salad Sandwiches, Biscuits and Ham, Butter Beans, Caramel Cake and a fabulous Pecker Pie-you'll need to read the book to know what that is in reference to!