CENTENNIAL OF 1916 “SUMMER OF TERROR”

May 28 • 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

Screen Shot 2016-05-27 at 9.07.39 AMOur guest is the distinguished author John Allan Savolaine, whose book detailing the infamous shark attacks along the New Jersey shore in the summer of 1916 has just been released. Titled Stanley Fisher: Shark Attack Hero of a Bygone Age, Mr. Savolaine describes the personal bravery of one man, Stanley Fisher, supported by the townspeople of Matawan, who attempted to rescue young victims of the attacks that would later influence Peter Benchley. Join us as a Victorian shore community comes face-to-face with a strange terror during a time of world war.

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Diane Rehm & Dr. Elaine Gazda

February 13 • 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

Diane RehmWe will be joined by the renowned, award-winning broadcaster, Diane Rehm.  Miss Rehm, host of the immensely popular NPR radio program, The Diane Rehm Show, will share with us her journey of awareness following her husband’s death from Parkinson’s Disease, which she movingly chronicles in her new book, On My Own, published by Knopf.

More at: aaknopf.com

 

February 13 • 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. on WAAM • Ann Arbor

Elaine GazdaScreen Shot 2016-02-11 at 3.20.29 PMJoin Ed for an on-air preview of the stunning upcoming exhibition, Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero: The Villas of Oplontis near Pompeii, opening February 19 at the
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan.  Our returning guest will be
Dr. Elaine Gazda, Curator of Hellenistic and Roman Collections.

more at: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/exhibitions/