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February  4 Author’s Talk: At the Elbows of My Elders: One Family’s Journey Toward Civil Rights Wednesday,  February  4 , 6:30 pm Smithsonian Castle, Commons In this illustrated reading, author Gail Milissa Grant recounts the battles fought by her father, a lawyer and civil rights activist in St. Louis; her family’s operation of a funeral home; and their earlier work on the railroad and on pleasure boats that plied the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.