Coffee With the Author - Lily Koppel and The Astronaut Wives Club

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Coffee With the Author

The topselling author of The Red Leather Diary talks about her latest book, a revealing glimpse into the lives of “the women behind the spacemen”—from Project Mercury, of the Kennedy years, to the two-man Gemini missions and finally the Apollo program. Their lives changed so drastically they needed a support group, so the Astronaut Wives Club came into being in 1966. Over the years, they worked together from helping the wives whose husbands died in crashes or Apollo I’s disastrous launch-pad fire to sleeping in the Lovell’s living room while Jim Lovell was orbiting the moon on Christmas Eve 1968. The U.S. moon program ended in 1972—but many of these unique women still remain connected, friends now for more than 50 years.

Free for Literary Guild members and $10.00 for nonmembers. Due to limited seating, reservations are requested. Call (912) 289-7357 or email litguildssi@gmail.com