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Monday Enrichment - Love Under Fire: The Story of Bertha and Potter Palmer

Nov 24, 2025 1:15 PM | Ends Nov 24, 2025 2:30 PM | Nineteenth Century Charitable Association 178 Forest Avenue Oak Park IL
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Love Under Fire (Documentary)Meet Potter Palmer, the man behind "Mr. Selfridge," and his wife Bertha, the woman who courted kings and brought Impressionism to America. 

Amelia Estelle Dellos (she/her) is a lifelong Chicagoan, an award-winning writer, and a filmmaker. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago and has taught writing and rhetoric at Roosevelt University and her alma mater. Recently, she became the managing editor of Unwoven Literary & Arts  Magazine.  She attended the Kenyon College Writers Workshop. Her work has appeared in Spilledwords, Street Lit, Big Shoulders Press, Allium: A Journal of Poetry & Prose, PBS, and Amazon Prime.

Free and open to the public. Donations are welcome!
To live stream this program, visit our website.  A recording will also be available from the website one week later.
https://ncca.memberclicks.net
 
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Monday, November 24, 2025
1:15 PM
Nineteenth Century Charitable Association 178 Forest Avenue Oak Park IL
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