Vietnam Mailbag - Book Discussion with Nancy Lynch Steele In-Person
In honor of our Vietnam veterans, journalist Nancy E. Lynch, author and publisher of the award-winning social history, Vietnam Mailbag, Voices From the War: 1968-1972, will read and discuss selected war letters from her book at noon on Oct. 17 at the Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County.
Lynch’s program is sponsored by the library at 115 South Ave. in Rochester, N.Y. After her presentation, she will be available to autograph and personalize her book at $40. A companion DVD sells for $10.
Since 2009, Lynch, whose maternal grandparents lived on West Lake Road in Canandaigua, has presented her salute to Vietnam veterans in the Finger Lakes to increase awareness of our troops’ service and many sacrifices during that contentious, undeclared war. She lives in Bethel, Del.
Her 456-page book features nearly 1,000 letters and hundreds of pictures her popular newspaper column, Nancy’s Vietnam Mailbag, received from our troops on the front lines during the last five years of the contentious war when she was a reporter for The News Journal in Wilmington, Del.
Servicemen in the paper’s Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland circulation area received the newspaper as a public service. They eagerly responded to Lynch’s unique column which afforded them a rare opportunity to let those at home know where they stood on issues ranging from the war to the weather.
Nancy’s Vietnam Mailbag is believed to have been the only war correspondence column of its kind in the country.
In her final column in December 1972, Lynch promised “her guys” she would someday put all their letters and pictures in a book to honor them and Vietnam veterans throughout the country. Vietnam Mailbag fulfills her personal mission and was released at a statewide reception at the Delaware Public Archives on Veterans Day 2008.
In 2009, Vietnam Mailbag won the first place gold medal from Independent Publisher for Best Non-Fiction in the Mid-Atlantic.
- Date:
- Thursday, October 17, 2024
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Central - Kate Gleason Auditorium
- Audience:
- Adults All Ages Seniors Teens
- Categories:
- Asian Pacific American Heritage Black History Book Talk Community Department - Science, History & Technology Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Hispanic Heritage History Lecture Local History
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