Fascinating Storytelling Program WHEN: Sunday, October 3, at 7:30 PM
WHERE: Union Congregational Church, 176 Cooper Avenue, Montclair
TICKETS: $10. For information call 973.625.8548 or go to www.njstorynet.org.
The New Jersey Storytelling Guild will host Stuart Lutz, historic document specialist and author of The Last Leaf, a unique oral history containing almost forty interviews with the final survivors or last eyewitnesses of historically important events. Lutz will speak about stories told to him personally by last survivors who witnessed many of history’s famous events.Among many others, Lutz interviewed
- the final three Civil War widows (one Union and two Confederate)
- the final pitcher to surrender a home run to Babe Ruth
- the last suffragette
- the last living person to fly with Amelia Earhart
- the final American World War I soldier
- the last Harry Houdini stage hand
- the final surviving employees of Thomas Edison and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The wide-ranging stories involve humor (the 1920 Olympic medalist who stole the original Olympic flag), tragedy (the last survivor of the 1915 Lusitania sinking), heroism (the final Medal of Honor recipient for actions on Pearl Harbor Day), and eyewitnesses to great events (one of the last scientists at the first nuclear chain reaction and the final Iwo Jima flag raiser). The Last Leaf will fascinate not only history buffs but anyone who loves a great story.
