Open Book Club - The Divorce Colony by April White

529 Pierce Street,Sioux City IA 51101

06 February, 2023

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Join the Sioux City Public Library's Open Book Club for a discussion on 'The Divorce Colony' by April White Monday, Feb. 6 10-11am at Morningside Branch Library 5-6pm at Aalfs Downtown Library Free and open to the public. From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms. For a woman traveling without her husband in the late nineteenth century, there was only one reason to take the train all the way to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, one sure to garner disapproval from fellow passengers. On the American frontier, the new state offered a tempting freedom often difficult to obtain elsewhere: divorce.