Florida Vistas Book Club: At Home in Persimmon Hollow

Event Description

Title: At Home in Persimmon Hollow
Author: Gerri Bauer

Join us for our next Florida history book club meeting at the Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art. At Home in Persimmon Hollow is the first book in a series chronicling the world of Agnes Foster and the people of frontier-era Florida. In 1886 Agnes Foster is forced to leave the Catholic orphanage in New York where she grew up to start a new life as a teacher in Persimmon Hollow, Florida, a town she has only ever seen in a newspaper ad. With nothing but her strong Catholic faith to sustain her, she leaves behind the only home she’s ever known and the little girl she hopes to adopt, and encounters a wild and beautiful new landscape, and a town full of hardworking, faith-filled people. She also meets the difficult, yet handsome and hard-to-ignore Seth Taylor, a man whose heart has been hardened to God after a terrible loss. Just as Agnes starts to feel Persimmon Hollow could be a good home for her and her daughter, and that Seth could be her love, tragedy strikes in the form of a trio of evil men from both their pasts, intent on doing them more harm. Will their fragile new love survive? Will Seth return to his faith? Can Agnes finally escape her dark past and find a bright new future?

Enjoy this special opportunity to meet author, Gerri Bauer who will be present at this month's meeting. 

Light refreshments will be served. 

RSVP by calling the Museum at 386-255-0285. 

Admission: Free for members, $5.00 for future members.