“One Thing Certain: I Will Not Cry”

The Friends of the Library will have their monthly meeting at noon on Thursday, June 3 in the Rude Girls Room of the Sandpoint Branch of the East Bonner County Library. The presentation this month is One Thing Certain: I Will Not Cry – The story of Nell Kruegel Irion, first woman candidate for congress from Idaho. Jennifer Leo will portray Irion at three different times in her life in this one-woman performance.

By all accounts, early Sandpoint resident Nell Irion was a human dynamo. She was the first woman from Idaho to run for U. S. Congress, as well as an educator, Bonner County schools superintendent, businesswoman, Civic Club leader, WWI Red Cross leader, and many other roles integral to the growth and development of Bonner County. Leo will portray Nell as she speaks to us about her teaching career, her run for Congress in 1920, and other fascinating glimpses into Bonner County life in the early- to mid-twentieth-century.

 The presentation is free and the public in invited to attend.