Writer Dawn Raffel's 'Boundless as the Sky' is inspired by Italo Balbo's flight to Chicago for the World's Fair
Inspiration can strike like lightning or it can sneak up on a person. Few know that better than Dawn Raffel. She is an accomplished writer and her two most recent books grew from inspiration she found while researching the Century of Progress. That world’s fair took place along our city’s lakefront in 1933-34 and provided some relief from the Great Depression with a variety of sights, sounds ...