First I've read by this author but it definitely won't be the last one. The discussion about signing versus lip reading, and the actual school for these children evoked great emotions. A transporting historical novel about a promising young inventor. I really grew attached to the characters. Read It Happened at the Fair A Novel by Deeanne Gist available from Rakuten Kobo. The exhibits are fascinating and descriptions of an actual fire from the Fair, is expertly portrayed. The relationship between the characters is wonderfully portrayed, but the descriptions of the Fair and specific events from real history, puts this book over for top for an excellent read. Though they both see this as only a business relationship, they find each other to be increasingly great company.
When Cullen's increasing hearing loss gets in the way of speaking to customers, he hires Della to teach him to lip read. The whole school has been transported to the Fair for exhibiting the children learning to lip read. Della Wentworth is a teacher for deaf children. His father gambles his farm on Cullen's ability to sell his product at the fair. From the bestselling author of It Happened at the Fair comes a historical love story about a lady doctor and a Texas Ranger who meet at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.Saddled with a man’s name, Billy Jack Tate makes no apologies for taking on a man’s profession.
He's created an automatic sprinkler system for putting out fires. North Carolina farmer, Cullen McNamara, is highly allergic to his cotton fields but he's also a talented inventor. While much of the rest of the country is facing bank shutdowns and lost mortgages, everything new and extravagant is happening at the Fair.
It's 1893, and the Chicago World's Fair is hugely popular.
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