Date and Time
Friday Sep 19, 2014
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM EDT
9/19/14 6:30 p.m.
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(828) 586-9499
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Description
City Lights Bookstore and the Jackson County Public Library invite you to attend a screening of the just released documentary film, “War Is Beautiful: A Journey into the Spanish Civil War” in the community room of the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva on Friday, September 19th at 6:30 p.m.
In November of 1937, James Neugass, a young American poet and published writer from New Orleans sailed for Spain along with 3,000 American volunteers to fight the fascist dictatorships of Franco and armies of Hitler and Mussolini. War is Beautiful: An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War is a stunning and tragic memoir of wartime life and chronicles Neugass’s wartime experiences.
In July of 2012, the author’s son traveled to Spain to follow in his father’s footsteps and visited many of the historical places his father wrote about in War is Beautiful.
Please join the author's son, Jim Neugass as he shares insights of his trip, of the father he never knew and selected readings of the book. Books will be available for purchase. This event if free.
