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A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888-1982 (Wisconsin Land and Life)
Helen L. Laird
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Description for A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888-1982 (Wisconsin Land and Life)
Hardcover. Captures the public achievement and private pain of a Wisconsin woman and her family. Helen's home influences, Presbyterian background, education and talents impelled her to lead. This book, based on a family's history, speaks about the way we were and are, a stridently materialistic nation with a deep and persistent spiritual component. Series: Wisconsin Land & Life S. Num Pages: 504 pages, 42 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBNW; 3JJ; BG; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 34. Weight in Grams: 826.
A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888 - 1982 captures the public achievement and private pain of a remarkable Wisconsin woman and her family, whose interests and influence extended well beyond the borders of the state. The eldest child of William Duncan Connor, a major figure in Wisconsin's emerging hardwood lumber industry and its turbulent turn-of-the-century political scene, Helen Connor Laird spent almost her entire ninety-three years in central and northern Wisconsin. Nevertheless, her voracious reading and probing mind connected her to the world. Her early life in frontier communities, home influences, Presbyterian background, and education, ... Read more
A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888 - 1982 captures the public achievement and private pain of a remarkable Wisconsin woman and her family, whose interests and influence extended well beyond the borders of the state. The eldest child of William Duncan Connor, a major figure in Wisconsin's emerging hardwood lumber industry and its turbulent turn-of-the-century political scene, Helen Connor Laird spent almost her entire ninety-three years in central and northern Wisconsin. Nevertheless, her voracious reading and probing mind connected her to the world. Her early life in frontier communities, home influences, Presbyterian background, and education, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Series
Wisconsin Land & Life S.
Number of Pages
504
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299214500
SKU
V9780299214500
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About Helen L. Laird
Helen Laird is the author of Carl Oscar Borg and the Magic Region: Artists of the American West. She lives in Marshfield, Wisconsin, and serves on the Wisconsin Historical Society's Board of Curators.
Reviews for A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888-1982 (Wisconsin Land and Life)
This biography of my grandmother interweaves a woman's personal story with the history of her time. I found it to be a deeply moving, well researched, suspenseful odyssey. - Jessica Doyle, First Lady of Wisconsin ""A Mind of Her Own is first and foremost the highly insightful biography of a remarkable woman who was an astute participant/observer in many of ... Read more