The Thursday Morning Club is delighted to welcome Carole Garibaldi Rogers as the initial speaker for its 2014-2015 Wise Wonderful Women series. The public is cordially invited to the luncheon and lecture on Thursday, October 16, from 11:30-1:30 at the Madison Community House, 25 Cook Avenue.
Carole Rogers, whose most recent book has just been nominated for two national awards, including the May Sarton Memoir Prize, will be speaking about her very personal search for Hidden Lives: My Three Grandmothers, the subject of her talk.
Throughout her focus on recording others’ lives, she paid little attention to her own until a single remark from her father changed her life. Hidden Lives: My Three Grandmothers, records her search for the three grandmothers—German, Italian, Russian Jewish--she never knew. Most surprising, she discovered the biological grandmother she had never been told of. Her pursuit encompassed everything from poring over dusty baptismal records in the Bronx to walking the streets of the Lower East Side, seeking a grandmother’s tenement address.
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Ms. Rogers, who divides her time between Morristown and Italy, says she has always found a fascination in telling women’s stories, and her articles in publications including the New York Times have focused especially on women in transition. Her passion became recording women’s oral histories; the most recent, Habits of Change, was published by Oxford University Press. Locally, she interviewed 100 New Jersey women for an oral history project at the College of Saint Elizabeth.
On October 16, she will share her remarkable journey of self-discovery, one that invites us to open the doors on our own.
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The October 16 lunch and talk is open to the public. The registration fee is $35. Checks should be made payable and mailed to “TMC, Wise, Wonderful Women,” P.O. Box 345, Madison, N.J. 07940. Cancelled checks will serve as a receipt; no tickets will be mailed. For information, contact Peggy Philp, the club’s Ways and Means chairwoman, at mgphilp@optonline.net or (973) 822-3433.
Proceeds will benefit the Madison Community House, which is owned and operated by the Thursday Morning Club along with its Community House Nursery School and Before and After School Child Care program. Organized in 1896, the club is a member of both the New Jersey State and General Federation of Women’s Clubs. The club offers programs and services to support the community, and its Community House has provided a home for a number of sports, recreation and civic groups.
For information about the Thursday Morning Club or membership, call the Community House at (973) 377-0244 or visit www.TMCMCH.org
The Thursday Morning Club is delighted to welcome Carole Garibaldi Rogers as the initial speaker for its 2014-2015 Wise Wonderful Women series. The public is cordially invited to the luncheon and lecture on Thursday, October 16, from 11:30-1:30 at the Madison Community House, 25 Cook Avenue.
Carole Rogers, whose most recent book has just been nominated for two national awards, including the May Sarton Memoir Prize, will be speaking about her very personal search for Hidden Lives: My Three Grandmothers, the subject of her talk.
Throughout her focus on recording others’ lives, she paid little attention to her own until a single remark from her father changed her life. Hidden Lives: My Three Grandmothers, records her search for the three grandmothers—German, Italian, Russian Jewish--she never knew. Most surprising, she discovered the biological grandmother she had never been told of. Her pursuit encompassed everything from poring over dusty baptismal records in the Bronx to walking the streets of the Lower East Side, seeking a grandmother’s tenement address.
Ms. Rogers, who divides her time between Morristown and Italy, says she has always found a fascination in telling women’s stories, and her articles in publications including the New York Times have focused especially on women in transition. Her passion became recording women’s oral histories; the most recent, Habits of Change, was published by Oxford University Press. Locally, she interviewed 100 New Jersey women for an oral history project at the College of Saint Elizabeth.
On October 16, she will share her remarkable journey of self-discovery, one that invites us to open the doors on our own.
The October 16 lunch and talk is open to the public. The registration fee is $35. Checks should be made payable and mailed to “TMC, Wise, Wonderful Women,” P.O. Box 345, Madison, N.J. 07940. Cancelled checks will serve as a receipt; no tickets will be mailed. For information, contact Peggy Philp, the club’s Ways and Means chairwoman, at mgphilp@optonline.net or (973) 822-3433.
Proceeds will benefit the Madison Community House, which is owned and operated by the Thursday Morning Club along with its Community House Nursery School and Before and After School Child Care program. Organized in 1896, the club is a member of both the New Jersey State and General Federation of Women’s Clubs. The club offers programs and services to support the community, and its Community House has provided a home for a number of sports, recreation and civic groups.
For information about the Thursday Morning Club or membership, call the Community House at (973) 377-0244 or visit www.TMCMCH.org
The Thursday Morning Club is delighted to welcome Carole Garibaldi Rogers as the initial speaker for its 2014-2015 Wise Wonderful Women series. The public is cordially invited to the luncheon and lecture on Thursday, October 16, from 11:30-1:30 at the Madison Community House, 25 Cook Avenue.
Carole Rogers, whose most recent book has just been nominated for two national awards, including the May Sarton Memoir Prize, will be speaking about her very personal search for Hidden Lives: My Three Grandmothers, the subject of her talk.
Throughout her focus on recording others’ lives, she paid little attention to her own until a single remark from her father changed her life. Hidden Lives: My Three Grandmothers, records her search for the three grandmothers—German, Italian, Russian Jewish--she never knew. Most surprising, she discovered the biological grandmother she had never been told of. Her pursuit encompassed everything from poring over dusty baptismal records in the Bronx to walking the streets of the Lower East Side, seeking a grandmother’s tenement address.
Ms. Rogers, who divides her time between Morristown and Italy, says she has always found a fascination in telling women’s stories, and her articles in publications including the New York Times have focused especially on women in transition. Her passion became recording women’s oral histories; the most recent, Habits of Change, was published by Oxford University Press. Locally, she interviewed 100 New Jersey women for an oral history project at the College of Saint Elizabeth.
On October 16, she will share her remarkable journey of self-discovery, one that invites us to open the doors on our own.
The October 16 lunch and talk is open to the public. The registration fee is $35. Checks should be made payable and mailed to “TMC, Wise, Wonderful Women,” P.O. Box 345, Madison, N.J. 07940. Cancelled checks will serve as a receipt; no tickets will be mailed. For information, contact Peggy Philp, the club’s Ways and Means chairwoman, at mgphilp@optonline.net or (973) 822-3433.
Proceeds will benefit the Madison Community House, which is owned and operated by the Thursday Morning Club along with its Community House Nursery School and Before and After School Child Care program. Organized in 1896, the club is a member of both the New Jersey State and General Federation of Women’s Clubs. The club offers programs and services to support the community, and its Community House has provided a home for a number of sports, recreation and civic groups.
For information about the Thursday Morning Club or membership, call the Community House at (973) 377-0244 or visit www.TMCMCH.org
