Final Draught: An Evening with Meredith Ritchie and "Poster Girls"

Date:
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Time:
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location:
Town Brewing Company
800 Grandin Road
Charlotte, NC 28208
United States

Final Draught is a discussion series featuring conversation, beer and books.


About the Author

Meredith Ritchie has made a career in business communications, mostly in banking. A native Charlottean, she wrote Poster Girls, her first novel, as a cure for acute “empty nest syndrome” after her triplets left for college. She lives in Charlotte with her husband of 27 years and two cats, who encourage her curiosity of the forgotten triumphs of the spirit, especially those in our own backyard.


About Poster Girls

After an unwanted southern migration, an upside-down world in 1943 offers military wife and mother, Maggie Slone, a job at Charlotte’s largest wartime employer––the massive and dangerous Shell Assembly Plant. 

Meanwhile, military wife and Alabama native, Kora Bell’s steadfast determination enables her to navigate the challenges she faces as a Black woman seeking employment under Jim Crow.  

A shared love of literature spurns an unlikely friendship between Kora and Maggie, and the two work together to unify the plant’s workforce. Stringent rules are necessary when the air is charged with gun powder and polite society, until Maggie and Kora must break them in order to support their families, end the war, and bring their husbands home.

Told from two perspectives, Poster Girls is driven by the true but forgotten events and accomplishments of a diverse group of ordinary American women, both relevant and necessary to stop modern cycles of misunderstanding.


Ticket Options

There are two ticket options: 

Option A: $10 and includes the program and light bites

Option B: $25 and includes a signed book, program and light bites. 

Additional copies of Meredith Ritchie's book will be available for purchase at the event. 

Proceeds benefit the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation.

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