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In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’re hosting a free program about the history women in the US military at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 30, at the our Main Branch.

Sara Fisher, executive director of the International Women’s Air and Space Museum, explores the contributions of women in the military stretching back to World War II when more than one thousand American women flew as part of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (but weren’t recognized as veterans until decades later.)

Learn about the trailblazers and the obstacles they faced since World War II. Fisher’s talk pays particular attention to women in air and space.

Discover a heartwarming story from Mentor’s history!

In 1948, the community in Mentor adopted and assisted a sister city – war-torn Suolahti, Finland. They sent more than $35,000 in food and clothes, which would be worth $400,000 today.

Ron Toivonen from the Finnish Heritage Museum has spent years researching this episode in Mentor’s history – dubbed Operation Democracy 1948.

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