Arrowhead Lodge Book Discussion - Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
Wed, Aug 28
|Milton
Gather with other “Arrowhead Lodgers” over craft beer, wine, cider, and more while you discuss the themes of our monthly book! We will also feature a drink selection that relates to the book because….well, why wouldn’t we?! Our next selection is Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
Time & Location
Aug 28, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Milton, 2 River St, Milton, VT 05468, USA
About the event
Gather with other “Arrowhead Lodgers” over craft beer, wine, cider, and more while you discuss the themes of our monthly book!
Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband’s masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years after Frank’s passing, Maud is the only person who can help the producers stay true to the spirit of the book—because she’s the only one left who knows its secrets. But the moment she hears Judy Garland rehearsing the first notes of “Over the Rainbow,” Maud recognizes the yearning that defined her own life story, from her youth as a suffragette’s daughter to her coming of age as one of the first women in the Ivy League, from her blossoming romance with Frank to the hardscrabble prairie years that inspired The Wonderful…