True Crime Book Club
Wed, Mar 19
|Howard City
Time & Location
Mar 19, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Howard City, 117 W Williams St, Howard City, MI 49329, USA
About the Event
Join us for a True Crime Book Discussion on Wednesday, Mar. 19 from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Reading Room in the Timothy C. Hauenstein Reynolds Township Library. The March book selection is The Feather Thief by Kirk W. Johnson. Copies are available for checkout.
Book Summary
On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins—some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked…