Fred & Me: A Willowbrook Survivor's Story Conversation & Book Reading with Author Allan Goldstein In-Person
A second parent’s death jettisons an older brother from estranged, resentful sibling, to fierce, angry advocate, from somebody who periodically heard about his institutionalized brother to somebody who rescues a life. A person speaking strangely, walking oddly, looking different is not thought to have feelings, ideas, or desires. That person is “the other.” Fred and Me, a Willowbrook Survivor’s Story shows the emergence of a person whose childhood and adolescence were lived in the infamous Willowbrook State School. This memoir of two strangers reconnecting while helping each other rediscover themselves portrays the value of enormous devotion when combating the stigma of living differently. This memoir is a love story of brothers reunited.
Join us on Wednesday, November 9th at 3pm in the Bern Dibner Library for a conversation and book reading with Allan Goldstein, author and Senior Lecturer in the Technology, Culture, and Society Department of the Tandon School of Engineering.
- Date:
- Wednesday, November 9, 2022
- Time:
- 3:00pm - 4:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Dibner Library, LC 433
- Location/Library:
- Bern Dibner Library
- Audience:
- Students, Faculty, Staff
- Type:
- Dibner Library classes
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Samuel R. Putnam (he/him) is the Director of the Bern Dibner Library for Science and Technology at New York University. His research focuses on how technology influences library patrons and the libraries’ role in situating and potentially mitigating that influence. He received his B.A. in History from the University of Florida and M.L.I.S. from Florida State University. He is currently an MA candidate in Sociology of Education at New York University. He was previously an Engineering Librarian at the University of Florida.