Local Author Nancy Haines
Local Author Nancy Haines will be at the Franklin Public Library to discuss her book We Answered With Love: Pacifist Service in WWI.
When Harvard made military training mandatory for all students during World War I, John Leslie Hotson, a pacifist, took a leave of absence from his studies and went to France with a group of Quakers to do relief and reconstruction work. His dear friend Mary May Peabody, a socialist and political activist, remained at Radcliffe College.
During the thirteen months he was overseas, Leslie and Mary wrote more than a hundred letters to each other. Their correspondence offers a delightful and compelling story of two young people caught up in the struggle, sacrifice, and adventure of participating in a noble cause and ultimately falling in love.