On Thursday, November 14 at 7:30pm, Alex Michelini, award winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist, will present a program entitled “Joyce Kilmer- Poet and Patriot.” Kilmer, the poet and journalist wrote his famous poem “Trees” in his home in Mahwah. The Lecture is part of the Mahwah Museum Lecture Series, held in the Ramapo Reformed Church Education Building, 100 Island Road, Mahwah. Admission is free to Museum members, $3.00 for non-members; refreshments will be served. Contact lectures@mahwahmuseum.org to reserve seats.
Michelini will speak about Kilmer’s short, but very eventful life, from the instant success of “Trees” to the personal tragedy of the loss of a child, his religious conversion and ultimately to the fervent patriotism that propelled him into the Great War and his death on a French battlefield in1918 at the age of 31.
Alex Michelini, a longtime resident of Mahwah, is a former journalist at the New York Daily News. He alternately served as chief investigative reporter, City Hall Bureau Chief and Federal courthouse reporter and also distinguished himself as a journalist for The New York Times. Michelini is the founder of the Joyce Kilmer Society of Mahwah.
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At the Mahwah Museum,201 Franklin Turnpike, Gene Manghi will give a gallery talk on West Mahwah history on Sunday, November 17 at 3:00 p.m. The gallery talk is part of the Museum’s newest exhibit “Neighborhoods of Mahwah: 1913-2013.” The Museum is open weekends and Wednesdays from 1-4 p.m. Visit www.mahwahmuseum.org or call 201-512-0099 for more information oncurrent exhibits, events and lectures.
