Keynote Presentations and Book Signings during Spring Literary Arts Festival

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Dates & times	Sat, 04/06/2013 - 1:00pm -Sat, 04/06/2013 - 4:00pm
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The library and the Friends of the Library will host two authors for keynote presentations and book signings during the 2013 Spring Literary Arts Festival, "North and South: A House Divided," commemorating the 150^th anniversary of the American Civil War on Saturday, April 6 in the library's meeting room.

1:00 p.m.

James Downs, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, Connecticut College, author of Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction

2:30 p.m.

Ronald S. Coddington, contributing author for the New York Times and Assistant Managing Editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education; author of Faces of the Civil War: An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories, Faces of the Confederacy: An Album of Southern Soldiers and Their Stories, and African American Faces of War: An Album.