Saturday, November 03, 2018, 02:00pm - 04:00pm

About The Event

On Saturday November 3 at 2pm  Elizabeth Clemens, the author of Detroit in World War 1 (Arcadia Publishing, 2015 ) will be the museum's speaker, offering a visual presentation of Detroit's role in the war, its industrial contributions and the effect of the war on the Detroit home front. Clemens is the audiovisual archivist at the Walter Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Union Affairs at Wayne State University. She has authored a second book of Detroit history , The Works Progress Administration in Detroit.

At the same program, Lincoln Park Mayor Tom Kames will read excerpts from the war diary kept by his grandfather, Walter P.Gaffigan of Detroit. Private Gaffigan's journal covers six months from the time of his enlistment in April of 1918, his deployment to France in June and serving on the Western Front with G Company, of the 112th Ammunition Train of the 37th Division. The 37th was involved in the fighting at the Meuse-Argonne (the largest battle in the history of the U.S. Army) and and the Ypres-Lys Offensives against the German Army, just prior to the November's Armistice.

Other family members of men who served in the First World War will also be in attendance. The Historical Society extends a special invitation to those who had ancestors

who served in The Great War. Admission to the event is free (donations are accepted) and is open to the general public.

Light refreshments will be served following the program.

  Contact Jeff Day   1335 Southfield Rd, Lincoln Park MI 48146     PH (313)-386-3137

 

Contact : Jeff Day Ph 313 386 3137 or lpmuseum@gmail.com
Category: Commemoration & Memorial Events, Michigan, Museums and Exhibitions, Education