CT Experiential Learning Center hosts author Carlos Eire at the James Blackstone Memorial Library.
Born in Havana in 1950, Carlos Eire left his homeland in 1962, one of 14,000 unaccompanied children airlifted out of Cuba by Operation Pedro Pan. He is currently T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University, an historian of late medieval and early modern Europe.
Dr. Eire will meet with students and share about his life and his published works, Waiting for Snow in Havana, which won The National Book Award for nonfiction, 2003 and Learning to Die in Miami.
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This program is free and open to the public (recommended for students ages 10 and up). RSVP mandm@CTEXperiential.org.
