The Museum is pleased to welcome author Terri Ryburn, who will do a reading and signing of her book No Crybabies Allowed: The Past as Told by Me. This free, hybrid program will be held in the Museum's second-floor courtroom at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 14, and live-streamed at youtube.com/mchistorymuseum.
The book is a collection of stories told from a child's perspective and ranges from hilarious to poignant, as Ryburn encounters bullies, suffers from unrequited love, puzzles over religion, abandons plans to run away from home, and upholds family honor while shedding the "crybaby" moniker. Ryburn shares vivid memories from her childhood, growing up poor in the 1950s and moving from state to state.
Terri Ryburn is a writer, a playwright, an actor, and a stand-up comic. She is the proprietor of Ryburn Place Gifts and Gab at Sprague's Super Service, a two-story Tudor Revival gas station on the 1926 alignment of Route 66 in Normal, Illinois.
Copies of Ryburn's book will be for sale in the Museum's Cruisin with Lincoln on 66 Visitors Center & Gift Shop. Questions? Contact education@mchistory.org or call us at 309-827-0428.