Margaret Creighton Book Talk and Signing

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Margaret Creighton, Professor Emeritus of History at Bates College in Maine, is the author of The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City: Spectacle and Assassination at the 1901 World’s Fair (2016), the selected title for Buffalo’s “One Community One Book” program series for May 2019. This new retelling of Buffalo’s Pan-American Exposition story, a sweeping story of hucksterism, civic ambition and national tragedy, had its roots at The Buffalo History Museum where much of Creighton’s research was done. A WNY native, Creighton is also the author of Rites and Passages: The Experience of American Whaling, 1830-1870 (1995) and The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, And African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle (2005).

She will discuss her writing process and journey, and why the Pan-American Exposition is so intriguing even to today’s readers. Copies of the book are available for purchase and signing after the program during a reception.

Margaret Creighton, author