Author Stephen Fried speaks at Waynoka Harvey House
Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West
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Author of Appetite for America - Stephen Fried
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The author of Appetite for America, Stephen Fried, has announced an Oklahoma micro-tour, October 18 and 19, coming to the Waynoka Harvey House and then the NWOSU Library in Alva. For information regarding the event, contact Sandie at 580-824-5871 or waynokahs@hotmail.com.
October 18th at the Waynoka Harvey House, 1386 Cleveland Street, Waynoka, OK Mr. Fried will be giving a talk and doing a book signing, from 7:00-8:30 pm. Quoting from his blog Fried says,
This is a special event because the Waynoka Harvey House and its contagiously enthusiastic leader, Sandie Olson, were deeply involved in the process of putting together this first, full-length biography of Fred Harvey (for which I am endlessly grateful). Most of the new Harvey Girl photos featured in the book, including the one on the back cover (which has been used in reviews across the country), came from the amazing collection at the Waynoka Historical Society, and the Waynoka Harvey House is sponsoring my Oklahoma visit.
October 19th at the Northwestern Oklahoma State University Library in Alva, I'll be giving a talk starting at 6:30, following by a book signing.
In honor of this Oklahoma mini-tour, a little known fact from page 383 of Appetite for America: the main reason that the Judy Garland movie The Harvey Girls got made, after a Fred Harvey-related project had been bouncing around Hollywood for years, was because of the surprise success on Broadway of, that's right, the musical Oklahoma!. Before that, The Harvey Girls was supposed to be a Western with Clark Gable. Then it was rewritten and retrofitted so it could be described, in promotional material, as an original Broadway music for the screen.
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