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Untold Stories, sponsored by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, is an annual series commemorating labor history. Here are the final sessions in this year's series:
Culture & Class in Post-War Milwaukee
Wednesday, May 16, 7 p.m.
St. Anthony Park Branch Library, 2245 Como Avenue, Saint Paul
Untold Stories crosses the state border with Professor Eric Fure-Slocum, author of the forthcoming project Postwar Democracy: How Growth and Working-Class Politics Reshaped a 1940s City, with an examination of post-war Wisconsin.
Counter Culture with Candacy Taylor
Monday, May 21, 7 p.m.
Metropolitan State University Library, Ecolab Room, 645 E. Seventh St., Saint Paul
Celebrate National Waitress Day with a special multi-media lecture by Candacy Taylor, author of Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress, which profiles waitresses aged 50 and older who have been working in neighborhood diners throughout the United States. Photographer, writer and former waitress, Taylor documents an overlooked group of working women who have brought meaning and culture to the American roadside dining experience.
View the entire Untold Stories schedule.
Follow the lockout of 1,300 workers at American Crystal Sugar in the Workday special section.
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