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Garst Museum
Pays Tribute to Veterans with Free Lecture
On Saturday, November 10 at 2 p.m., Garst Museum will pay tribute to
veterans with a special Veterans Day program focusing on the 100th
anniversary of World War I with featured speaker Dr. Jonathan Winkler,
professor and chair of the Department of History at Wright State
University. A native of Ohio, Dr. Winkler is the author of Nexus:
Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I
(Harvard University Press 2008/paperback 2013) and winner of the Paul
Birdsall Prize of the American Historical Association (2010), the
Distinguished Publication Award of the Ohio Academy of History (2009),
and the Theodore & Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize
awarded by the FDR Presidential Library, the Roosevelt Institute, the
Theodore Roosevelt Association, and the New York Council of the Navy
League of the United States. He has delivered lectures before the
American Philosophical Society and at the National Security Agency. He
teaches, researches, and writes on U.S. foreign relations (1776 to the
present), military and naval history, international history, and
strategic thought in the modern era.
Garst Museum will be honoring the service of local veteran, Forest
Marshal, who was a WWI aviator. The public is invited to this special
program to reflect and remember the sacrifices made by our veterans to
protect our freedom.
All lectures are free and open to the public. However, regular
admission will apply to tour Garst Museum which includes the
outstanding National Annie Oakley Center, Crossroads of Destiny, Lowell
Thomas, Keepers of Freedom, and Longtown exhibits. Funding for this
program was made possible by the Harry D. Stephens Memorial, Inc.
Foundation.
Image: Garst Museum’s Keepers of Freedom Exhibit Logo
The Garst Museum is located at:
205 N. Broadway, Greenville, OH 45331
937-548-5250
website: www.garstmuseum.org
email: www.information@garstmuseum.org
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