Health & Fitness
505 North - Author Stacy Cordery and Juliette Gordon Low, Founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA
Noted author and history professor Stacy Cordery presents the life of Juliette Gordon Low, "The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts," at the Barrington Area Library.
Were you a Girl Scout or Brownie in your childhood years? Have you remained involved in the Girl Scouts as an adult troop leader or as the parent of a Scout? Or do you just think of the Girl Scouts as the springtime source of those delicious cookies like Samoas and Thin Mints?
2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Girl Scouts of America and their founder, Juliette Gordon Low, was a fascinating woman with deeply held traditional values but a bold, trailblazing spirit. You can learn all about Low and her life before and after the Girl Scouts at a free program at the Barrington Area Library, featuring noted author and award-winning history professor Stacy Cordery. Cordery will speak at the library on Tuesday, March 6, beginning at 1:30 PM. Her book, Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts, was just published and has won praise from the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, CBS News and USA Today.
Admission to the program is free. Copies of Cordery's book will be available for purchase and signing after the program, courtesy of event cosponsor, the Lake Forest Book Store. Tea and cookies (Girl Scout cookies, of course!) will be served, so please join us for what is certain to be an enlightening and entertaining afternoon. Register through the library Web site: Stacy Cordery event registration All are welcome, but this program is intended for adults and young adults.
