Public Program, Author Talk, Conversation
The Weeping Angel: Letter and Poems from World War I France
Mary Kelley, editor, and Christopher Capozzola, MIT
$10 registration fee per person. (No Charge for MHS Members or Fellows)
$10 registration fee per person. (No Charge for MHS Members or Fellows)
Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 6:00PM - 7:00PM
Registration required at a cost
Army recruitment posters proclaimed “Join up and be in France in 60 days.” Young high school graduate Hubert Kelley answered the call. Working as a soldier on the railroads in France during World War I, he found his vocation as a poet and writer through vivid letters to family. Kelley will describe her efforts to retrace the forgotten history of a perceptive observer of the war’s destruction, and Capozzola will comment on the letters’ contribution to new historical understandings that have emerged during the war’s centennial.
There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30pm.