The Northeast Corner

Join Katie Dahl for an afternoon reading:

Lorena “Hick” Hickok was a Wisconsin butter maker’s daughter, an ambitious journalist, the first woman with a byline on the front page of The New York Times—and the live-in lover of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. This musical-in-progress by Katie Dahl follows Hick and Eleanor as they meet on FDR’s 1932 campaign trail and begin a romance that will transform both their lives. 

“Most clearly I remember . . . the feeling of that soft spot just north-east of the corner of your mouth against my lips.” – Hick to Eleanor, 1933

Katie was a first-year college student in Minnesota when she slipped on a patch of sidewalk ice and broke her wrist. Suddenly unable to play the oboe in her college orchestra, Katie used her newfound free time to learn guitar, teaching herself chord shapes as she strummed the strings with her stiff right…