Event Title
10/20 AUTHOR VISIT: Jeanne Marie Laskas, Hidden America
Location
MC Auditorium
Event Website
http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cr/
Start Date
20-10-2015 10:15 AM
End Date
20-10-2015 11:30 AM
Description
In Hidden America, award-winning journalist Jeanne Marie Laskas dives deep into her subjects and emerges with character-driven stories about the people who make our lives run every day—and yet we barely think of them. Take the men of Hopedale Mining company in Cadiz, Ohio. Laskas spent several weeks with them, both below and above ground, and by the end, you will know not only about their work, but about Pap and his dying mom, Smitty and the mail-order bride who stood him up at the airport, and Scotty and his thwarted dreams of becoming a boxing champion. That is only one hidden world. Others that she explores: an Alaskan oil rig, a migrant labor camp in Maine, the air traffic control center at LaGuardia Airport in New York, a beef ranch in Texas, a landfill in California, a long-haul trucker in Iowa, a gun shop in Arizona, and the Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleaders, mere footnotes in the moneymaking spectacle that is professional football.
Ms. Laskas will speak from 10:15 to 11:30 in MC Aud. BRING YOUR BOOK--there will be a book signing from 11:30-noon.
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10/20 AUTHOR VISIT: Jeanne Marie Laskas, Hidden America
MC Auditorium
In Hidden America, award-winning journalist Jeanne Marie Laskas dives deep into her subjects and emerges with character-driven stories about the people who make our lives run every day—and yet we barely think of them. Take the men of Hopedale Mining company in Cadiz, Ohio. Laskas spent several weeks with them, both below and above ground, and by the end, you will know not only about their work, but about Pap and his dying mom, Smitty and the mail-order bride who stood him up at the airport, and Scotty and his thwarted dreams of becoming a boxing champion. That is only one hidden world. Others that she explores: an Alaskan oil rig, a migrant labor camp in Maine, the air traffic control center at LaGuardia Airport in New York, a beef ranch in Texas, a landfill in California, a long-haul trucker in Iowa, a gun shop in Arizona, and the Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleaders, mere footnotes in the moneymaking spectacle that is professional football.
Ms. Laskas will speak from 10:15 to 11:30 in MC Aud. BRING YOUR BOOK--there will be a book signing from 11:30-noon.
http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cr/2015-16/Fall2015/5