{"id":115,"date":"2012-05-03T20:13:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T20:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/centralcity\/?p=115"},"modified":"2012-05-03T22:17:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T22:17:02","slug":"rosalie-lippincott-special-guest-speaker-at-lone-tree-readers-book-discussion-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/centralcity\/2012\/05\/03\/rosalie-lippincott-special-guest-speaker-at-lone-tree-readers-book-discussion-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosalie Lippincott Special Guest Speaker at Lone Tree Readers Book Discussion Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rosalie Lippincott was the special guest speaker at the April Lone Tree Readers Book Discussion Group meeting<\/strong>.\u00a0 The book that was\u00a0discussed\u00a0was Bob Green’s book entitled “Once Upon\u00a0a Town:\u00a0 the Miracle of the North Platte Canteen”.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mrs. Lippincott\u00a0spoke about her experiences as a volunteer at the canteen.<\/p>\n

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In search of “the best America there ever was,” bestselling author and award-winning journalist Bob Greene finds it in a small Nebraska town few people pass through today\u2014a town where Greene discovers the echoes of the most touching love story imaginable: a love story between a country and its sons.<\/p>\n

During World War II, American soldiers from every city and walk of life rolled through North Platte, Nebraska, on troop trains en route to their ultimate destinations in Europe and the Pacific. The tiny town, wanting to offer the servicemen warmth and support, transformed its modest railroad depot into the North Platte Canteen.<\/p>\n

Every day of the year, every day of the war, the Canteen\u2014staffed and funded entirely by local volunteers\u2014was open from five a.m. until the last troop train of the day pulled away after midnight. Astonishingly, this remote plains community of only 12,000 people provided welcoming words, friendship, and baskets of food and treats to more than six million GIs by the time the war ended.<\/p>\n

In this poignant and heartwarming eyewitness history, based on interviews with North Platte residents and the soldiers who once passed through, Bob Greene tells a classic, lost-in-the-mists-of-time American story of a grateful country honoring its brave and dedicated sons.<\/p>\n

The library has copies of the book available, if you would like to check one out.\u00a0 We also have a DVD entitled “The Canteen Spirit” which has also had good reviews by library patrons.<\/p>\n

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