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The next chance for you to hear "Gunpowder and Grease Paint" or the story of how the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Training Center, the First Composite Anti-Aircraft Demonstration Battalion Royal Artillery and the worlds first super star, Gertrude Lawrence all came together in 1943 here on Cape Cod.
GUNPOWDER AND GREASE PAINT
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 12TH at 12:00 NOON
WAQUOIT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH PARISH HALL
15 PARSON'S LANE EAST FALMOUTH
(The little white one with green trim on RT 28)
Other upcoming interesting lectures:
Noah Isenberg, "We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend and Afterlife of America's Most Beloved Movie"
October 7 @ 2:00 pm -
3:00 pm
Cultural Center,
55 Palmer Avenue
Falmouth, MA United States
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Casablanca was first released in 1942, just two weeks after the city of Casablanca itself surrendered to American troops led by General Patton. Featuring a pitch-perfect screenplay, a classic soundtrack, and unforgettable performances by Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and a deep supporting cast, Casablanca was hailed in the New York Times as "a picture that makes the spine tingle and the heart take a leap." The film won Oscars for best picture, best director, and best screenplay, and would go on to enjoy...
Tom Schachtman, "How the French Saved America"
October 12 @ 7:00 pm -
8:30 pm
Cultural Center,
55 Palmer Avenue
Falmouth, MA United States
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Americans today have a love/hate relationship with France, but in How the French Saved America Tom Shachtman shows that without France, there might not be a United States of America. To the rebelling colonies, French assistance made the difference between looming defeat and eventual triumph. Even before the Declaration of Independence was issued, King Louis XVI and French foreign minister Vergennes were aiding the rebels. After the Declaration, that assistance broadened to include wages for our troops; guns, cannon, and...
James McGrath Morris, "The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made & Lost in War"
November 1 @ 7:00 pm -
8:00 pm
Cultural Center,
55 Palmer Avenue
Falmouth, MA United States
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After meeting for the first time on the front lines of World War I, two aspiring writers forge an intense twenty-year friendship and write some of America's greatest novels, giving voice to a "lost generation" shaken by war. Eager to find his way in life and words, John Dos Passos first witnessed the horror of trench warfare in France as a volunteer ambulance driver retrieving the dead and seriously wounded from the front line. Later in the war, he briefly...
Leonid Kondratiuk, "Massachusetts Goes to War: The 26th Yankee Division in World War One"
November 10 @ 2:00 pm -
3:00 pm
Cultural Center,
55 Palmer Avenue
Falmouth, MA United States
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The 26th "Yankee" Division, composed of units from the National Guards of the New England states, was the first full US Army division to arrive in France in 1917. Approximately, 15,000 Massachusetts men served in the 26th making it the largest unit the state sent to the war. Virtually, every town had men serving in the 26th. General Kondratiuk will speak about the Yankee Division's role in World War I.
Joseph Williams, "The Sunken Gold: A Story of World War One, Espionage, and the Greatest Treasure Salvage in History"
November 15 @ 7:00 pm -
8:00 pm
Cultural Center,
55 Palmer Avenue
Falmouth, MA United States
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"The Sunken Gold" is the story of how a British ship, HMS Laurentic, laden with forty-four tons of Allied gold bound for the United States, was sunk off the coast of Ireland by Germany and the epic struggle by divers from the British Navy to recover the treasure. The book also describes the underwater spywork conducted by the divers by breaking into sunken U-boats looking for codes, ciphers, and other secret documents. Their mission to recover the gold was highly...
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