Friday, March 29, 2024

NICE: LECTURE SERIES

The Norton Institute for Continuing Education (NICE) announces its third open??lecture of the 2016 – 2017 academic year. This presentation will be held at the Norton Public Library, 68 East Main Street, Norton, Massachusetts????and??is free and open to the public. No RSVP is required

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The Great War: One Man’s Journey From Maine to France And (Somehow) Back Again

By Dr. Mark D. LeBlanc

Monday March 27, 2017

1:30 ??? 3:00 pm????????????????????????

Norton Public Library

Private John M. Longley was a young farm boy from rural Maine who traveled to France, fought in World War I, and somehow returned to live in Maine. Dr. LeBlanc will tell this soldier’s story and that of the other New England men who fought in France as part of the 26th Yankee Division, 103rd Infantry.??

Dr. Mark D. LeBlanc is Professor of Computer Science at Wheaton College. He is Co-Chair of the Department of Math and Science.????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

NICE, a non-profit affiliate of the??Road Scholar??(formerly named Elderhostel) Institute Network??and a collaborative effort of Wheaton College and Wingate Assisted Living of Norton, provides non-credit nominally-priced college-level liberal arts courses and free lectures for over-55 year-olds living primarily in the Norton,??Attleboro, Mansfield, Sharon, Foxboro,??Taunton,??Stoughton, Easton, and Canton areas.

For complete details of the lecture plus other information, please consult the NICE web site at??www.nicecourse.org.