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Spokane Valley Author Talk Canceled

Beverly Lionberger Hodgins was scheduled to discuss women welders and wartime shipbuilding in the Pacific Northwest.

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The Spokane Valley author talk with Beverly Lionberger Hodgins scheduled for Thursday, November 5, at 7 p.m. has been canceled. Hodgins was set to discuss Augusta Clawson and the women who built 153 tankers at Portland’s Swan Island Shipyard during World War II. Her book draws on Clawson’s diaries, letters and government reports about the welders’ working conditions.

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