Rainy Day Books, Fairway, Kan., hosted Erik Larson (center) at the Unity Temple in Kansas City for The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Crown). The event was co-presented with the National Churchill Museum and the National World War I Museum and Memorial. Timothy Riley, director of the Churchill Museum, presented Larson with a "Churchill Fellow" Medal of Honor. Vivien Jennings (r.), founder and president, Rainy Day Books, welcomed Larson on stage with an "elbow bump," as did some of the customers in the book signing line, because of coronavirus concerns. The store sold 605 advance admission packages (one or two tickets plus an autographed book) and, said Rainy Day COO Roger Doeren (l.), "Midwesterners are hearty & healthy people, and most everyone attended, and were happy that they were there."
