Greensboro Bound Festival Event: Dolen Perkins-Valdez – “Happy Land”
Saturday, May 17, 2:30PM - 3:30PM
Location: Greensboro History Museum, Greensboro Bound Festival
Dolen Perkins-Valdez brings history to life with compelling female characters, from slavery through the present day. Her latest novel, Happy Land, spotlights a real American kingdom in the North Carolina mountains, made up of freed slaves. In conversation with humanities scholar Kathy Goodkin, she’ll share how this story came to be—and why history is always relevant, even when it’s all but forgotten.
Support provided by the Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro; Cole Levin Center for Art and Human Understanding fund.
