HISTORICAL TIDBIT: 1893 CHICAGO WORLD’S FAIR OR COLUMBIAN EXHIBITION?. Looking West from Peristyle Court of Honor and Grand Basin, 1893, World’s Columbian Exhibition (World’s Fair). Can he keep his feet on the ground, or will he be carried away?

Like the newly invented Ferris wheel, he is caught in a whirl between his girl back home, his dreams as an inventor, and his unexpected attraction to his new tutor. The young teacher is reluctant to participate, and Cullen has trouble keeping his mind on his lessons while intently watching her lips. In an act of desperation, he hires Della Wentworth, a teacher of the deaf, to tutor him in the art of lip-reading. But the noise in the fair’s Machinery Hall makes it impossible to communicate with potential buyers. Gambling everything–including the family farm–Cullen McNamara travels to the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair with his most recent invention. BOOK DESCRIPTION: It Happened At The FairĪ transporting historical novel about a promising young inventor, his struggle with loss, and the attractive teacher who changes his life, all set against the razzle-dazzle of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. From a Casanova male, to an unconventional married couple, and a condescending singing master, she takes on a colorful cast of characters to transform the boarding house into a home while racing to complete the Tiffany chapel and make a name for herself in the art world.As challenges mount, her ambitions become threatened from an unexpected quarter: her own heart.BOOK REVIEW: It Happened At The Fair BOOK REVIEW: It Happened At The Fair. Though excited to live in a boarding house when most women stayed home, she quickly finds the world is less welcoming than anticipated.

Eager for adventure, the young women pick up their skirts, move to boarding houses, take up steel cutters, and assume new identities as the “Tiffany Girls.”Tiffany Girls is the heartwarming story of the impetuous Flossie Jayne, a beautiful, budding artist who is handpicked by Louis to help complete the Tiffany chapel. From the bestselling author of It Happened at the Fair and Fair Play comes a compelling historical novel about a progressive “New Woman”-the girl behind Tiffany’s chapel-and the love that threatens it all.As preparations for the 1893 World’s Fair set Chicago and the nation on fire, Louis Tiffany-heir to the exclusive Fifth Avenue jewelry empire-seizes the opportunity to unveil his state-of-the-art, stained glass, mosaic chapel, the likes of which the world has never seen.But when Louis’s dream is threatened by a glassworkers’ strike months before the Fair opens, he turns to an unforeseen source for help: the female students at the New York Art Institute.

It Happened at the Fair by Deeanne Gist