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Love and Conductivity: The Untold Story of Eleanor Morgan and Thomas Phipps
Thu, Sep 18
|Champaign Public Library


Time & Location
Sep 18, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Champaign Public Library, 200 W Green St, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
About the event
Set in the aftermath of World War I, Love and Conductivity introduces Eleanor Morgan
(1895-1967), a teacher of poetry whose dreams of adventure light up her life, leaving no room
for thoughts of romance. That is, until a fateful chance encounter with Thomas Erwin Phipps
(1895-1990), a physical chemist and Army lieutenant, ignites a connection she cannot shake.
Across the barriers of distance, duty, and mutual fear of vulnerability, their ensuing five-year
correspondence breathes new life into an era of profound historical significance, via an
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