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20th Annual Brendan Gill Lecture to Feature Award-Winning Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss in Conversation with Mo Rocca Friday, April 13

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By Ellen de Saint Phalle, Member, Board of Trustees, The Bronxville Historical Conservancy


Feb. 14, 2018:  Mo Rocca will return to Bronxville for a conversation with award-winning presidential historian Michael Beschloss at the 20th Annual Brendan Gill Lecture on April 13 at 8:00 pm at Sarah Lawrence College.  

Beschloss is a New York Times best-selling author, the NBC Presidential Historian, and a contributor to the PBS NewsHour. He won an Emmy for his role in creating the Discovery Channel series Decisions that Shook the World. His forthcoming book, Presidents of War, will be published this fall by Crown.

Mo Rocca, a featured speaker at the 2017 Brendan Gill Lecture, is a correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning and a regular panelist on NPR's Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!  He is the host of The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation on Saturday mornings on CBS and host and creator of My Grandmother's Ravioli on the Cooking Channel. 


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The Bronxville Historical Conservancy presents the Brendan Gill Lecture each year as a gift to the community. The lecture is named for former Bronxville resident, editor, and writer Brendan Gill, who was a champion of architectural preservation and other visual arts.

To register for this free public lecture, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 914-961-6790.

Pictured here (from top):  Michael Beschloss and Mo Rocca.

Photos courtesy Ellen de Saint Phalle, Member, Board of Trustees, The Bronxville Historical Conservancy

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