6:00-7:45 pm
Downtown Orlando Branch of the Orange County Public Library
Albertson Room
Albertson Room
Presented by Bookmark It and Orlando Public Library System
Emita Brady Hill co-editor of Bronx Faces and Voices will discuss her collection of provocative first-hand narratives (co-edited Janet Butler Munch) from those elected officials, religious leaders, community members, and activists who experienced first hand the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight throughout the 1970s and 1980s and were determined to preserve the stability of their New York community. The interviews, paired with portraits by photographers Georgeen Comerford and Walter Rosenblum, document the Bronx "faces" in their beauty and diversity: young and old, witnesses to the history they lived and created.
Local film documentarian Eric Dusenbery will present portraits and musings from his newly-published book, “Florida Soup: Putting History On the Table”. The collection offers a rich harvest of storytellers, from a tobacco-spitting blue crab fisherman to a rancher who reminisces about Depression-era farming.
A Q&A and book signing will follow this FREE presentation and we encourage you to join the other fun events as part of Downtown Orlando’s monthly Third Thursday Orlando.
Emita Brady Hill co-editor of Bronx Faces and Voices will discuss her collection of provocative first-hand narratives (co-edited Janet Butler Munch) from those elected officials, religious leaders, community members, and activists who experienced first hand the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight throughout the 1970s and 1980s and were determined to preserve the stability of their New York community. The interviews, paired with portraits by photographers Georgeen Comerford and Walter Rosenblum, document the Bronx "faces" in their beauty and diversity: young and old, witnesses to the history they lived and created.
Local film documentarian Eric Dusenbery will present portraits and musings from his newly-published book, “Florida Soup: Putting History On the Table”. The collection offers a rich harvest of storytellers, from a tobacco-spitting blue crab fisherman to a rancher who reminisces about Depression-era farming.
A Q&A and book signing will follow this FREE presentation and we encourage you to join the other fun events as part of Downtown Orlando’s monthly Third Thursday Orlando.