Cutter Wood and Stacy Horn
Join us as we welcome authors Cutter Wood and Stacy Horn.
They will be presenting Cutter's book, Love and Death in the Sunshine State: A Story of A Crime alongside Stacy's Damnation Island.
When a stolen car is recovered on the Gulf Coast of Florida, it sets off a search for a missing woman, local motel owner Sabine Musil- Buehler. Three men are named persons of interest—her husband, her boyfriend and the man who stole the car—and the residents of Anna Maria Island, with few facts to fuel their speculation, begin to fear the worst.
On a two-mile stretch of land in New York’s East River, a 19th-century horror story was unfolding . . . Today we call it Roosevelt Island. Then, it was Blackwell’s, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of hospitals. Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world ever seen, Blackwell’s Island quickly became, in the words of a visiting Charles Dickens, “a lounging, listless madhouse.” In Damnation Island, the first contemporary investigative account of Blackwell’s, Stacy Horn tells this chilling narrative through the gripping voices of the island’s inhabitants, as well as the period’s officials, reformers, and journalists, including the celebrated Nellie Bly.
This author discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A.
