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