Please join us Saturday, July 11 from 1 to 2 pm for an author talk and book signing in the O’Byrne Gallery at the Daughters of the American Revolution Headquarters, 1776 D St. NW Washington, DC. This event is free to the public, with books available to purchase in our gift shop.

Please register for this free event here http://www.eventbrite.com/e/join-us-for-a-talk-and-book-signing-with-andie-tucher-author-of-happily-sometimes-after-tickets-17153261868?aff=es2

Happily Sometimes After: Discovering Stories from Twelve Generations of an American Family By Andie Tucher

In this beautifully written work, Andie Tucher considers family stories as another way to look at history, neither from the top down nor the bottom up but from the inside out. She explores not just what happened—everywhere from Jamestown to Boonesborough, from the bloody field at Chickamauga to the metropolis of the Gilded Age—but also what the storytellers thought or wished or hoped or feared happened. She offers insights into what they valued, what they lost, how they judged their own lives and found meaning in them. The narrative touches on sorrow, recompense, love, pain, and the persistent tension between hope and disappointment in a nation that by making the pursuit of happiness thinkable also made unhappiness regrettable. 

After the program please visit our Museum, period rooms and Library, all free and open to the public.