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Running Uphill emerged from the memories of a woman brought up on the shirttails of the Depression and World War II, that time of great change for women who left jobs as domestics, secretaries, and teachers to move into war production jobs while the men were conscripted into military service. Cultural changes flowed from historical events, and women were cutting their apron strings. But despite this change, women still needed Gloria Steinem and MS. magazine to launch careers in what remained a man's world.Using memoir techniques of storytelling, Childs delves into her story of becoming a theater artist, joining friends to start a nonprofit theater company in 1985, naming it the Lyric Theater. The mission of the Lyric entailed making music integral to stage productions, which led to stage adaptations of work by several Minnesota poets. When the Lyric began producing scripts by well-known Minnesota author Jon Hassler, it settled into an uphill climb. In 2000, the Lyric transitioned into the Jon Hassler Theater and moved to Plainview, Minnesota, Jon Hassler's boyhood home.

Golden-Brown Indian Girl: A Small Voice Gets LOUDER by Donna F. Council is the true story of what happened to the author as a child when she and four of her six sisters were taken away from their parents in the 1960s and put in a boarding school run by the Catholic Church on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Donna Council documents the severe abuse that she and countless other Native children endured in such institutions as sanctioned by the US Bureau of Indian Affairs since the early 1800s. She describes her lifelong efforts to understand why this happened to her family and her continuing attempts to heal from the ongoing trauma from experiences that none of the people involved, perpetrators or victims, were willing to talk about. The author brings the truth to light in an effort to find healing for herself and for the still-living survivors who are now elders in the Native community.