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Coya Come Home- Meet & Greet

Celebrate the 100th birthday of Minnesota Congresswoman Coya Knutson and reissue of her biography Coya Come Home with us Friday at noon.

Meet actress, author, and publisher of this book Kathryn Leigh Scott to discuss the influential life of Coya Knutson.

www.kathrynleighscott.com
 
Knutson was the first woman elected to Congress from Minnesota, and is remembered today for the notorious "Coya, Come Home" letter supposedly written by her then-estranged husband, Andy, urging her to give up her seat and not seek reelection in 1958.

"Coya, I want you to tell the people of the 9th District this Sunday that you are through in politics. That you want to go home and make a home for your husband and son. As your husband I compel you to do this. I'm tired of being torn apart from my family. I'm sick and tired of having you run around with other men all the time and not your husband. I love you, honey."

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