Bold Spirit
C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2017 LCV Cities Tour” in Spokane, Washington, from July 1-7 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Comcast cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on Book TV on C-SPAN2.
Linda Hunt, author of Bold Spirit: Helga Estby’s Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America, talked about Norwegian immigrant Helga Estby who w… read more
Linda Hunt, author of Bold Spirit: Helga Estby’s Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America, talked about Norwegian immigrant Helga Estby who walked across America with her daughter to win $10,000 in order to save her family’s farm. In 1896, Estby and her daughter walked from Eastern Washington to New York.
C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2017 LCV Cities Tour” in Spokane, Washington, from July 1-7 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Comcast cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on Book TV on C-SPAN2. close