Hennepin History Museum is pleased to host Peg Meier, longtime and award-winning reporter for the StarTribune, for a talk about the recently released new edition of her beloved book Bring Warm Clothes: Letters and Photos from Minnesota’s Past. Meier’s classic work uses vintage photographs, newspaper clippings, letters, as well as excerpts from secret diaries and personal journals, to give today’s readers a firsthand account of life in those early, challenging days.

In her presentation, Meier will explain how she went about researching these archives and, in doing so, some of the people she encountered – whom she calls “simply amazing.”

The event will include a question-and-answer session and will be followed by a book-signing event.

Copies of the new edition of Bring Warm Clothes will be available for purchase at the museum.

Image of the cover of new edition of Bring Warm Clothes is courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society.