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A Place Called Canterbury: A Book Reading by Dudley Clendinen |
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: National Academy of Sciences
Thanks to advances in diet, medication, and health care, Americans who grew up during the Depression and fought in World War II - known as the Greatest Generation - are outliving all of their predecessors. They have become part of an unprecedented demographic phenomenon that former New York Times writer Dudley Clendinen chronicles in his deeply moving and often hilarious new book, A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America.
Clendinen spent over 400 days and nights living at Canterbury Tower in Tampa Bay, observing the lives of over 200 residents in order to bring us this book. A Place Called Canterbury is a poignant chronicle of the last years of the Greatest Generation and their children, the Boomers, as they are drawn into old age with their parents.
Clendinen has edited essays on the American South and wrote the text for the photographic book, Homeless in America. He is the co-author, with Adam Nagourney, of Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Event Information
Location: Keck Center, 500 Fifth Street, NW, Room 100
Admission: Free, photo ID required
Doors open at 5 pm.
Reservations: Not required
General Information
The National Academies
Hours: 2100 C Street, NW Monday - Friday 9 am - 5 pm
500 Fifth Street, NW – by appointment only
Admission: Free
Address: 2100 C Street, NW and 500 Fifth Street, NW
Metro: 2100 C Street, NW – Foggy Bottom-GWU (Blue and Orange lines) 500 Fifth Street, NW - Gallery Pl-Chinatown (Green, Red, and Yellow lines)
Phone: 202-334-2436
Email: arts@nas.edu
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