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Hilda Demuth-Lutze | 

Sunday, Feb. 25: at 4 p.m.

Republic of Letters Books (151 High Street, Mineral Point) 

Join Hilda Demuth-Lutze for a reading and craft talk about her book in progress Dreams of Stone and Glass. Hilda Demuth-Lutze is a Midwestern author of historical fiction. Her novel Kingdom of the Birds is set in 16th-century Germany during the time of Martin Luther. She and her sister Emily co-authored three books set in 19th-century Wisconsin. Plank Road Summer and Plank Road Winter take place in rural Racine County, where the Demuth sisters grew up, and Hattie’s War takes place in Milwaukee during the Civil War. At home on Hil-Mar Farm near Valparaiso, Indiana, she and her husband Mark raise sheep and sell wool products. Their extensive garden includes everlastings for floral arrangements and Japanese indigo for dyeing. Hilda and Mark are musicians and members of a contra dance band.