Panel Discussion Armenia’s Living Legacy, Oct.1, 7:30 p.m. Jenks Center

Winchester
Reads Committee chooses book for 2013:

       ‘The
Sandcastle Girls’ by Chris Bohjalian.

Panel
Discussion Armenia’s Living Legacy, Oct.1, 7:30 p.m. Jenks Center

Author
Program, October 16, 7:30 p.m. McCall School

Do you remember, as a
child, being told to finish your dinner and not waste food, and to remember
“The Starving Armenians”?  Who were
these Armenians and why were they starving?   The Armenian Genocide that started around 1915 was the
blueprint for Adolph Hitler’s Holocaust and he was quoted in the 1930’s as
saying, “Who today remembers the Armenians?”  Chris Bohjalian has written a book that sounds like a ‘beach
read’, but is in reality a moving story about people who were caught up in the
Armenian Genocide and what happened to them.  He has called “The Sandcastle Girls” his “most important book” and he will be in
Winchester to talk about this book on October 16 at the McCall Middle School
Auditorium, 458 Main Street, at 7:30 p.m. 
Chris Bohjalian will be introduced by John Sullivan.

In preparation for Chris
Bohjalian’s visit, there will be a program in the Pond Room of the Jenks
Center, 109 Skillings Road, on Tuesday, October 1st at 7:30 p.m.
entitled Armenia’s Living Legacy.  It will feature a panel of local
Armenian-Americans who will discuss both Armenian History and Armenia Today.  The
panel will include Bob Mirak, President of the Armenian Cultural Foundation,
Jim Kalustian, President of the Armenian Heritage Foundation, Gary
Lind-Sinanian, curator of the Armenian Library and Museum of America (ALMA) in
Watertown, and Gail O’Reilly, owner of Made in Armenia Direct.  Steve Boodakian.will moderate the panel
discussion and there will be a display of Armenian crafts.

Both programs will be
free and open to the public.  After
his program, Chris Bohjalian will be happy to sign your copy of his book.