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Join historian Cathy Polovina as she follows her curiosity and explores "Old Weird America," to look a bit closer at a variety of adventurous, innovative, and unusual characters throughout American history.

The Love Song of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas 

Every worthwhile artist and author of the first half of the 20th century who visited Paris was also received at the salon of modernist writer Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice B. Toklas at 27 Rue de Fleurus. What may have looked like an unusual arrangement for the time, theirs was actually a very traditional marriage—where Alice cooked and kept house as Gertrude poured over her obscure prose and verse. Come hear how, through a revolution in art and two world wars, the pair faced the world together in this exhilarating story of devotion.