Media
The YMCA: 150 Years In Ann Arbor, Presented By Cathi Duchon, YMCA President and CEO
The first Ann Arbor YMCA was established in 1858 by students at the University of Michigan and was the second YMCA in the state of Michigan. Cathi Duchon will discuss the YMCA's history in Ann Arbor from 1858-2008. Dan Maier, Vice President of Association Advancement, YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit, will also speak. A short reception will follow.This event is cosponsored by The Washtenaw County Historical Society, in conjunction with their September 17-November 22 exhibit, "The Ann Arbor YMCA from 1858 to 2008: Serving the Ann Arbor Community for 150 Years," on display at the Washtenaw Historical Society, 500 North Main Street at Beakes Street in Ann Arbor.
Media
Local Car Historian Bob Elton Presents A Brief History of Chrysler Corporation
The story of Chrysler Corporation is an epic story of bold, ambitious men, horrible mismanagement, bad luck, gritty perseverance and the will to never say die. Local car historian Bob Elton presents a fascinating introduction to this once great company. In today's troubled times for the car business, it's a story worth hearing. This event is held in conjunction with the Main Street Area Association's July 11 Rolling Sculpture Car Show and cosponsored by the Main Street Area Association. Mr. Elton is one of the founders of the Rolling Sculpture Car Show. Ten years ago, the Chrysler Corporation, then one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world, ceased to exist. Swallowed up by a much smaller Daimler-Benz, it became merely a division of a German company. Today it's the private preserve of a New York investment company.
Media
An Evening with Cokie Roberts As She Discusses Her New Book "Ladies Of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation"
Cokie Roberts covers Congress, politics and public policy for ABC News and serves as Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio, where she was the congressional correspondent for more than ten years. AADL is honored to host an evening with the award-winning journalist at the Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty in Ann Arbor. In her best-selling book "Founding Mothers," Roberts paid homage to the women who helped establish our nation. In "Ladies of Liberty," (Morrow; on sale April 8, 2008) she continues the story of more remarkable women and their achievements in moving the fledgling nation forward, from 1796 to 1828. The event includes a book signing, with books for sale courtesy of Borders. There is no charge for admission. Cosponsored by Michigan Radio.In her more than thirty years in broadcasting, Ms. Roberts has won many awards, including two Emmys. She has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame, and was cited by the American Women in Radio and Television as one of the fifty greatest women in the history of broadcasting.
Media
Panel Discussion: Five Years Ago: 9/11 Survivors and Families
In commemoration of the 5th anniversary of 9/11 and in conjunction with the National Traveling Exhibit New York, September 11 by Magnum Photographers, this panel includes parents who all lost children on 9/1l. Adele Welty, John and Bev Titus, Pat Whalen, and Marilyn Rosenthal will reflect on the tragedy and its implications on their lives. Library Director Josie Parker will moderate.Adele Welty, of New York, is the mother of Firefighter Timothy Welty, lost in the line of duty on September 11, 2001. She is a retired geriatric social worker, and a member of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, an advocacy organization founded by family members of victims of the September 11th attacks on the United States. Ms. Welty has traveled to Vietnam, Cambodia, Madrid, Afghanistan, and Jordan to meet with people affected by violence and war in the spirit of our common humanity, and to extend to them the same compassion that 9/11 families received from people around the world. John and Bev Titus' 28 year-old daughter Alicia was a flight attendant on UAL Flight 175. The Titus' are from Dexter, Michigan, and are also members of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. Mr. Titus has worked in higher education for 20 years and Mrs. Titus is on the faculty at Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan. Pat Whalen of Canton, Michigan lost her daugter Meredith on 9/11. Meredith worked at a private investment firm located in the North Tower of the WTC. Marilyn Rosenthal's son Josh died in the South Tower of the World Trade Center. Dr. Rosenthal lives in Ann Arbor and is professor, medical sociologist and director of the Program in Health Policy Studies at UM-Dearborn. She is an Associate Director of the UM medical school's Program in Society and Medicine, coordinating the UM Forum on Health Policy since 1994.
Media
Yale Historian David Blight Discusses His Book 'A Slave No More'
During the past few years, two new slave manuscripts have surfaced. Each is an authentic, handwritten memoir of the escape to freedom of a young male slave during the Civil War. David Blight, Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University and the nation's leading expert on race during and after the Civil War, was commissioned to combine these narratives into his book, "A Slave No More." Blight will discuss his newly published groundbreaking work. The event will include a book signing, with books for sale courtesy of Shaman Drum Bookshop. Cosponsored by the UM Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, the UM Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, and the UM Program in American Culture. Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five post-Civil War narratives surviving. Only a few are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. The two recently discovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, are a major addition to the canon of American history. The first manuscript, "The Journal of Wallace Turnage," is the story of a slave born in Snow Hill, North Carolina in 1846. The second, entitled by the author, "Memorys of the Past," is the narrative of a former slave, John Washington, born in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1838.
Media
Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads Lecture: Revolutionary Scientists: The Legacy of Albert Einstein
In 1905, trained in physics and mathematics, Albert Einstein took an office job because he could not find a teaching position. That year, he published three papers detailing revolutionary theories related to space and time, quantum mechanics, and the existence of atoms. The ideas would rock the foundations of science. Join Dr. Zurbuchen as he, through a fascinating audio-visual presentation, carries us back to 1905, when Einstein changed the scientific world forever.Prof. Zurbuchen has a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is now Professor at the U-M, focusing on broad areas such as Space Science and Exploration, enabling Astrophysics from Space. He is a recent winner of the US Presidential Early Career Award. The 2006 Read encourages individuals to explore Revolutions in Science -- the people, theories, explanations and discoveries that challenged our thinking and changed the world -- by promoting civic dialogue through the shared experience of one book. A selection committee of community representatives, students and educators in the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area chose Jonathan Weiner's The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time as the focus of Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads 2006. Copies of the book are available at all Ann Arbor District Library sites and at area bookstores. For more information on Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads events, visit the website aareads.org.
Media
John Bowditch of the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum Discusses Edison & Tesla: Inventors as Icons
It's the 25th anniversary of the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum! In celebration, and in conjunction with the Library's Figure It Out summer reading program, AADL and AAHOM are hosting several science lectures at the downtown Library. In the first lecture, nationally-known Edison expert John Bowditch will discuss two great inventors of the 20th century. Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison are known not only for their inventions, but also for their intense rivalry. This event will be taped for future broadcast on Community Television Network. A 25th Anniversary Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum Historical Exhibit will be displayed in the lower level of the Library through July 21. John Bowditch is the current Director of Exhibits at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum. He has also served as Curator of Industry at Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village for 21 years and as the Director of the Lowell Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts. A published author, Bowditch has appeared on the BBC and History Channel as an expert on Thomas Edison. Additional science lectures in this series will take place in July.