Sunday Lecture: "The Lieutenant and the Cobb County Boys"
Sunday, November 5
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Smyrna Library Meeting Room
Light refreshments will be served.
In observance of Veterans Day, Smyrna Library will screen the documentary, "The Lieutenant and the Cobb County Boys." This short film includes excerpts from oral histories of World War II veterans of Smyrna collected by local resident and historian, Pat Burns. The veterans included in the documentary are Dorothy Moseley Bacon, Watson Petty, James Pressley, Edward Laporta, Cleveland Thrower, Peter Burnette, Virgil Sexton, Arthur Crowe, Jr., Eugene Williams, and William E Price. The documentary is complemented by an exhibit of wartime photographs from Smyrna veterans, also collected by Pat Burns for a project she and the Smyrna Historical and Genealogical Society completed in 2001 to document the stories of WWII veterans of Smyrna. After seeing the film, please visit the upstairs gallery and exhibit cases to learn more about these extraordinary Smyrnans and Cobb County "boys."
