The Library will host an AuthorSpeak event with Kevin Lacz, author of The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team Three Sniper’s True Account of the Battle of Ramadi at noon, Friday, Jan. 20 a in the Main Auditorium of Norwalk Library. A Light Lunch will be provided by the Library. The Last Punisher is a bold, no-holds-barred first-person account of the Iraq War. With wry humor and moving testimony, Kevin Lacz tells the story of his tour in Iraq with SEAL Team THREE, the warrior elite of the Navy.
Author Pauline Brody chronicles the story of one remarkable woman in her new book, Chemistry and Compassion. Amy Le Vesconte was born at the end of the nineteenth century, but exemplified the modern teacher and woman scientist of the twenty first century. She earned her Ph.D. in chemistry in 1928 and devoted the next four decades to teaching chemistry to young college women at Mary Hardin-Baylor College in Belton, Texas and two other women’s colleges. She imbued her teaching with humor, fun and creativity that helped overcome the students’ fear of science. Fun loving and adventuresome, she caught the travel bug when she took a road trip with three other women from Minnesota to Philadelphia in 1926 in a Model T Ford.