Speaker announced for 2014 Bob Lecture
JAMESTOWN – Dr. Stanley Weintraub will deliver the 10th annual Murray L. Bob Memorial Lecture at 7 p.m. on Oct. 21, on the topic Escape into Christmas: Korea 1950.
The speaker is a historian and the award-winning author of more than 50 books. He is a National Book Award finalist and a former Guggenheim Fellow.
A Christmas Far From Home, his new book about Korea in 1950, will appear later this year.
Weintraub is Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University and lives in Newark, DE.
The lecture honoring a longtime director of Prendergast Library and the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System is free and open to the public. The library is located at 509 Cherry St., Jamestown. For information, call 484-7135.