(Marquette, Michigan) – Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Calumet’s Italian Hall Disaster, author Steve Lehto will give a talk on Saturday, December 7 at 3:00 pm in the Peter White Public Library Shiras room.
Lehto’s book Death’s Door is the true account of the tragedy that struck the Michigan copper mining town during a time when a bitter struggle raged between the striking workers and the mining companies. This haunting story continues to be an unsolved mystery today. “Death’s Door” was names a Michigan Notable Book in 2007.
Steve Lehto is a writer and attorney who resides in southeast Michigan. He obtained a B.A. in history from Oakland University and his J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law in Detroit, where he teaches consumer protection and trial practice. He previously wrote Bobby Isaac: What Speed Looks Like and A Most Unusual Experiment: Chrysler’s Turbine Car, both published by Tarheel Press, LLC.
A book sale & signing follows the reading which is open to the public at no admission charge. For more information call the library at 226-4303 or visit www.pwpl.info.
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