Thanks to KPIX-TV in San Fransciso and anchor Frank Mallicoat for inviting Linda on Bay Sunday to talk about FORGOTTEN. Frank spent many years on TV in New England, Linda's home turf. There was much talk off-camera about Canobie Lake Park!
National D-Day Memorial with William Dabney
Linda was thrilled to speak about FORGOTTEN tonight at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, VA. She was joined by William Dabney, who lives in nearby Roanoke. Dabney, who turns 92 on June 25, joined the Army when he was 17 years old. Sgt. Dabney landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day so amped up he didn't feel a shrapnel wound. In June 2009, the French government honored him with the Legion of Honor, that country's highest honor.
WNYC radio: Leonard Lopate Show
WNYC's talk radio master Leonard Lopate interviewed Linda about FORGOTTEN: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes. Lenny was extremely interested in the barrage balloons flown over Omaha and Utah Beaches. Click HERE to hear the interview.
Pollard Memorial Library features FORGOTTEN
Thanks to the crowd in Lowell, Mass. -- Linda's hometown -- who turned out for her talk at Pollard Memorial Library! And many thanks to events coordinator Sean Thibodeau for setting it up!
First Massachsetts event: Porter Square Books
Ruth Edmonds Hill asked Linda to sign a copy of FORGOTTEN.
A fantastic crowd turned out for FORGOTTEN's first Black History Month event in the States. Many thanks to Sara and the staff at Porter Square Books in Cambridge for inviting Linda to speak about the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, Jim Crow America and so many other issues.
Black History Month kick-off at the American Library in Paris
Paris Soirées welcomes FORGOTTEN
A Paris audience got a preview Sunday night of Linda's upcoming Black History Month tour.
Many thanks to founder Patricia LaPlante-Collins for inviting Linda to discuss the issues and men of FORGOTTEN.
For more information on Patricia's Expat Soirées and dinners, click HERE or see her Facebook page HERE.
NPR's Here & Now features FORGOTTEN
The men of the HQ battery of the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion pose in France, July 1944.
Thanks to NPR's Here & Now, recorded at WBUR in Boston, for inviting Linda Hervieux on the show to talk about FORGOTTEN: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, At Home and At War. They also published an excerpt from the book. Read it here.