Submitted by Senior Citizens Inc.
Since its founding, the project has since identified, collected, and archived more than 250,000 correspondences from every conflict in U.S. history, starting with the American Revolution and continuing up to the present day, and every war in between. Carroll will be bringing several of the actual and most extraordinary letters he has collected.
He is increasingly known as “the historian who makes house calls” because he often visits the homes of people with war letters to donate. If anyone, even people not planning to attend the public program, has a war letter to donate to Andy’s project and would like him to come to your home, please contact Roger Smith at Senior Citizens, Inc, rsmith@seniorcitizens-inc.org.
Several local newspapers have written about Andy’s “house calls,” and just this past July 4th weekend, ABC News ran this story about one particular visit:
https://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/historians-mission-preserving-history-war-letters-123518057
To register for the event, please contact Roger Smith at rsmith@seniorcitizens-inc.org. Regular admissions is $15 per person (veterans are admitted free).
ABOUT the LECTURER
Andrew Carroll is an American author, editor, playwright, public speaker, nonprofit executive, and historian. Carroll is known as the editor of the New York Times best sellers Letters of a Nation, Behind the Lines, and War Letters, which later inspired the documentary of the same name
ABOUT SCI
Senior Citizens Inc. (SCI) has been helping people in coastal Georgia age successfully since 1959 through a variety of programs including Meals on Wheels, Adult Day Health Centers, DayBreak Respite Care, The Learning Center, and much more. To learn more about SCI and its services, please visit www.SeniorCitizensInc.org or call 912-236-0363.