The following event announcement was received today and is posted by
request.
Moderator, NYHIST-L
The Hudson River Valley Institute, in conjunction with the Marist
College Lecture Series, is pleased to welcome author Jessica DuLong to
the Marist College campus for a lecture entitled Rediscovering The Work
That Built America.
Author and marine engineer Jessica DuLong will speak on "Rediscovering
the Work that Built America" during a talk at Marist College on
Wednesday, March 31, at 7 p.m. in the Historic Cornell Boathouse,
located at Longview Park along the Marist waterfront. The event is free
and open to the public. A book signing and reception will follow.
DuLong's visit is part of the 2009-2010 Marist Lecture Series and is
co-sponsored by the Hudson River Valley Institute at Marist.
DuLong is the author of the acclaimed Hudson Valley memoir My River
Chronicles: Rediscovering America on the Hudson (Free Press, 2009) that
chronicles her adventures in becoming one of the world's few female
fireboat engineers. A U.S. Coast Guard-licensed merchant marine
engineer, DuLong runs the five 600-horsepower opposed-piston diesel
engines of retired New York City fireboat John J. Harvey, the 1931
vessel now operating as a living museum, giving free public trips around
New York Harbor and taking an annual whistle-stop tour up the Hudson
River.
Over the course of her journalism career, DuLong has gone undercover to
a White-power hate-rock festival in rural Georgia for Newsweek
International, covered college finances for Rolling Stone, written about
lesbian newlyweds for CosmoGIRL! (an article nominated for a GLAAD Media
Award), penned a history of engine room technology for Maritime Reporter
and Engineering News, and chronicled the undoing of a paper-mill
machinery factory for Today's Machining World, among other varied
assignments. Her work has also appeared in a variety of other
publications, including Psychology Today, Parenting, Newsday, The
Advocate, Out, Alternative Medicine, Saudi Aramco World, and the New
York Times Regional Newspapers.
For more information please call 845-575-3052 or visit the following
link:
http://www.hudsonrivervalley.org/about/pdfs/newsclippings/dulong033110
Hudson River Valley Institute
at Marist College
3399 North Road
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Phone: 845 575-3052 Fax: 845 575-3176
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