To Banish Forever – A Book Discussion (In Person)

October 14, 6:30-7:30pm

$10 | In Person

Location: Assisi Heights (1001 14th Street NW, Rochester, MN 55901) Click here for map.

The Knights of the Forest, a secret organization in Mankato, Minnesota, lived with a charter “to banish forever every Indian who now desecrates our soil.” What is “our soil”? Residing in Blue Earth County, the Ho-Chunk people were threatened with death by the armed Knights of the Forest. Eventually, they were kicked off the land and out of the State. This was a mid-19th-century ethnic cleansing in Southern Minnesota!

Prudy Knaak, a veteran book aficionado, will lead this discussion. She is a retired high school literature and writing instructor hailing from Chicago. She has a Master of Science in Reading and has taught developmental reading at the Rochester Community and Technical College. Her passions are reading and gardening, in that order.

Welcome to this in person program at Assisi Heights! Please refrain from attending if experiencing any symptoms of COVID-19 or other illness or have been exposed to any persons infected with COVID-19. Please park in the lot in front of Assisi Heights and enter through the main entrance.