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REMEMBERING SACCO & VANZETTI: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE

Monday, August 23rd at 7PM
REMEMBERING SACCO & VANZETTI: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE
On-line round table discussion with:
Stephanie Schorow, Stephanie E. Yuhl, Michele Fazio, Adrienne Naylor

Co-sponsored by The Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society and The Community Church of Boston
Live broadcast: CCB YouTube Channel

PRESENTERS:

Stephanie Schorow is a journalist, writing instructor, and the author of seven books on Boston history. She became interested in the Sacco and Vanzetti case at age 12 when she picked up and started reading her parents’ copy of Boston by Upton Sinclair. She has written about the case of the two Italian anarchist and the Borglum bas relief of the pair for the Boston Herald and the Improper Bostonian. She currently coordinates a Citizen Journalism Program for Malden’s Urban Media Arts, teaches professional writing and editing at Lasell University, and serves as a communication writer for Ariadne Labs in Boston. Her newest book The Great Boston Fire: The Inferno that Nearly Incinerated the City will be published this fall.

Stephanie E. Yuhl PhD is the W. Arthur Garrity, Sr. Professor in Human Nature, Ethics and Society and Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, and Associate Faculty in the Critical Conservation program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Yuhl is the author of multiple scholarly essays and articles (including on Sacco and Vanzetti). She has served as a consultant and guest curator for museums, including Worcester Historical Museum, and as lead scholar for the ongoing, multi-year archive- and oral history-building project, LGBTQ+ Worcester: FOR THE RECORD. Most recently, Yuhl and her project team curated an exhibition out of this community work to position vital Worcester stories as part of the national 50th anniversary commemorations of the Stonewall Uprising.

Michele Fazio is Professor of English and Co-coordinator of the Gender Studies Minor at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke where she teaches courses on contemporary U.S. ethnic literature and working-class studies. Her film, Voices of the Lumbee, received the Studs Terkel Award for Media and Journalism and the North Carolina Folklore Society Brown-Hudson Award. She has served as president of the Working-Class Studies Association and co-edited the Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies (2021). Her research on labor activism and memory has been exhibited at the Harvard Law School Library and the American Labor Museum. She is a recent recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on the New Deal Era’s Federal Writers’ Project, a BMI Woody Guthrie Research Fellowship, and a Massachusetts Historical Society Fellowship. Her current research project explores the cultural legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Adrienne Naylor was a founding member of the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society. As a graduate student, she researched attempts to publicly commemorate the anarchists in Boston.