Former fifth grade teacher, Trinette Olin, is now a first-time author, debuting her children’s novel ‘The Bicentennial Year and the Forgotten Name:’
“The Bicentennial Year, obviously, is the 200th birthday of the United States, which was in 1976 and it was a huge deal. It is also about finding a middle name for my grandma. She was one of eight children who didn’t have a middle name, and I just couldn’t understand that when I was a kid. So, that is my quest, to find her a middle name. It is also about my fear of my piano teacher’s dog. It is also about family, history, 1970’s pop culture, and patriotism. It is an epistolary novel, which means it is told through letter writing. It is also juvenile fiction, its historical fiction, and it is sort of a semi-autobiographical memoir.”
Olin taught at United North for seventeen years before teaching religion at Immaculate Conception School.
