Author and presenter Annes Hanson is delighted to present her new book, Buried Secrets: Looking for Frank and Ida at our February 15th general meeting at 10 am in the Foxtail 2 meeting room at the Fort Collins Senior Center. This will be a hybrid meeting unless the weather is bad, then Zoon only!
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Buried Secrets is the true history detective story of how I discovered the hidden past that her grandparents took to their graves. When Anne finally unearthed their real identities, she learned that their stories were lies invented to conceal disturbing facts. You won’t want to miss this intriguing and spellbinding story!
When Anne Hanson’s dad first asked her to investigate the secret past of his parents, little did she know what she was getting into. For two decades, despite all her digging, she failed to unearth even the tiniest speck of evidence that the families of her grandparents, Frank and Ida Hanson, had ever existed. If her quest were a detective novel, its title would have been, “The Case of the Missing Ancestors.”
Finally, Anne unearthed her grandparents’ true identities and the secrets they took to their graves. Journeying into an early twentieth century drama of pain and heartache, she solved a mystery from an era when a young couple, thwarted by social conventions, could simply vanish and create new lives. They radically altered their family destiny, with aftereffects that reverberated for generations.
Yet Buried Secrets: Looking for Frank and Ida is, ultimately, a love story. When she learned the truth of her grandparents’ past, Anne comprehended the true depth of their love. Buried Secrets also illuminates the love between a dad and the daughter who gave him answers he had longed for his entire life.
PRESENTER PROFILE
Author Anne Hanson
Anne Hanson, an inveterate explorer of the unknown, has always followed when her curiosity beckoned. She crossed the ocean for her African Studies degree, and as a reporter would drive endless miles across town to get the story. Finally, when investigating her grandparents’ secrets, she journeyed into a bygone century, her vehicle painstaking and detailed research.
Anne has written for the Boston Globe and numerous newspapers, as well as for corporate publications and the New England Historic Genealogical Society’s American Ancestors magazine.
FORT COLLINS SENIOR CENTER CONSTRUCTION NOTICE
NOTE: Due to ongoing construction on their remodeling project at the Fort Collins Senior Center, our normal Prairie Sage One room is not available and we have moved to the Foxtail 2 meeting room for our February program! Please follow the map’s direction shown below to enter the Foxtail 2 meeting room! If weather permits, you may enter the Foxtail 2 meeting room’s outside entrance door.
Ft. Collins Sr. Center Construction Map
MAP TO THE FORT COLLINS SENIOR CENTER
Map for Fort Collins Senior Center
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