Event: FDR Library-Lecture and Signing with Douglas Brinkley: FDR & CCC, July 9 at 7 PM

From the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum:

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT: 

THE RENEWAL OF AMERICA

A lecture & book signing
Tuesday, July 9, 7 p.m.
Henry A. Wallace Visitor Center
FDR Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum is pleased to present FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT: THE RENEWAL OF AMERICA, a lecture and book signing with Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at Rice University, Historian for CBS News, and author of THE WILDERNESS WARRIOR: THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE CRUSADE FOR AMERICA. The program will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 9, 2013 in the Henry A. Wallace Visitor and Education Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home. Following the presentation, Dr. Brinkley will be available for a book signing and several of his books will be available for sale in the New Deal Store. Attendees can visit the Library's new permanent exhibition until 10:00 p.m..-- free of charge -- after the program. This event is free and open to the public.

FDR visits with Civilian Conservation Corps workers at the CCC's Big Meadows camp in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, August 12, 1933.  Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Archives

Discussion about Boston's Italian-American North End, June 26!

Capossela's book on Italian-American life.

The North End Historical Society is hosting an interview with Dom Capossela, a restauraneur, author, and native North End Italian-American. "The interview will cover Dom's love of the North End, Italian cooking, and how the neighborhood that was once a tight-knit community of Italian-Americans came to be known as the gem of the city of Boston," according to NEHS.

This is an excellent opportunity to listen hear about the cultural make-up of a Boston immigrant community first-hand, and to ask questions that might better help you understand Italian-American society in post-World War II Boston.

The discussion will be hosted at the Nazzaro Community Center, 30 North Bennet St., Boston, MA, 02113. This event is free and open to the public.