A TOWERING TASK presentation March 1st at the JFK Library
https://www.peacecorpsdocumentary.com/screenings-event/2020/3/1/john-f-kennedy-presidential-library
“In Celebration of the Anniversary of the founding of the Peace Corps, please join us at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on Sunday, March 1st for a free showing of the documentary film “A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps.” Watch the trailer at: https://vimeo.com/363392905.
This event is free to the public, co-hosted by the Boston Area Peace Corps Volunteers (BARPCV), the National Peace Corps Association (NPCA), and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Please reserve a ticket here in order to attend.
We are also raising funds to offset the costs of the film showing. If you are able to make a donation you can do so here.
Schedule of events:
1:00 pm – Free admission to JFK Library and Museum, including Oral History Project
2:00 pm – A Towering Task Documentary Showing
3:30 pm – Q&A panel session hosted by Alan Price, JFK Museum Director, featuring:
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Alana DeJoseph, Film Director and RPCV Mali
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Glenn Blumhorst NPCA President and RPCV Guatemala
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Mark Gearan, Former Peace Corps Director
Edward Mycue
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I was at that shining marble beacon the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library on that little land spit
below Boston 19 years ago with others of our Ghana One group following a reunion
in Gloucester north of Boston and who’d remained friends since 1961.
Remembering now the JFK Library also houses the Ernest Hemingway collection on one floor
that includes a reconstruction Hemingway’s house office in Cuba with with the paintings and papers
that Castro allowed to go there.