The Great Heart

ETA:  This is TONIGHT (May 28)! Hope to see you there!

Our next event will be a special book release event on “The Great Heart, written by Doug Hennes.

The O’Shaughnessy family held Summit Avenue close to their heart, but Ignatius Aloysius O’Shaughnessy was particularly proud of the street, as well as being one of Minnesota’s top philanthropists. Over his lifetime he gave hundreds of millions of dollars to institutions ranging from St. Thomas and St. Catherine’s to the Highland ballfields and a dental clinic for the Visitation sisters. 

The biography is organized into four sections, covering the Stillwater native’s early years and how he became the largest independent oil refiner in the United States; his family life and other interests, including his ownership of the Cleveland Indians and his sponsorship of the men’s basketball team that won the gold medal in the 1936 Olympics; his history of giving, especially to Catholic education; and his later years, honors, and death in 1973.

The reading will be:

THIS Thursday, May 28 • 7:00 pm

at Common Good Books

38 Snelling Ave. S. (between Summit and Grand)

please stop in!