Homesteading presentation set for Thursday

COEUR d'ALENE - Poet and author Philip Burgess will tell a story of Western settlement in his presentation "Penny Post Cards - Homesteading Women," Thursday, Oct. 28, at 7 p.m. in the Community Room at the Coeur d'Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave.

Burgess, through poems and old post cards, tells the story of six young Norwegian sisters moving from a small rural community in northern Minnesota around 1910 into the greater world.