December 16, 2017 | 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Boardman Road Branch Library
141 Boardman road, Poughkeepsie, NY United States

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Join us for the latest in our Words of War series:

Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 2:30 PM; Boardman Road Branch Library

Geoffrey Ward was the writer for The Vietnam War, the new film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. In a conversation with Paul Sparrow, Director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Geoffrey will talk about the making of the film and his collaboration with Ken Burns.

The principal writer of the television mini-series The Civil War (1990), Ward has collaborated with its co-producer Ken Burns on most of the documentaries he has made since, including Jazz, Baseball, and The War. The 2011 Burns/Ward collaboration, Prohibition, brought Ward his seventh Emmy for Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming. Since that project, he worked with Ken Burns on The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, a seven-part documentary miniseries which was broadcast on PBS in September 2014.

This event is free however registration is required. Please regsiter here: http://bit.ly/2xZSu23