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October 4, 2002
Neenah
Ellis, Author of Book on Centenarians, to Speak October 8
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Neenah
Ellis hopes to live to be one hundred herself.
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WFCR,
public radio for western New England, will launch its 2002-2003
special events series with National Public Radio's Neenah Ellis,
author of the new book If I Live to Be 100: Lessons from the
Centenarians, on Tuesday, October 8, at 7:30 pm, in Mary Woolley
Hall's Chapin Auditorium. Now a freelance reporter and producer
and formerly a staff producer for NPR's All Things Considered,
Ellis will read from her book, which is based on her NPR series
"One Hundred Years of Stories." A book signing follows
her presentation.
In 1997, Neenah Ellis
was awarded a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
to produce a series for NPR focusing on the lives of people one
hundred years of age or older. "One Hundred Years of Stories,"
the result of a yearlong journey throughout the country during
which she interviewed centenarians, became one of the most popular
series ever to run on NPR.
Among the centenarians
profiled in Ellis's radio series and book is 104-year-old
Anna Wilmot of Westfield, Massachusetts, who still rows her boat
on a Massachusetts lake and skinny-dips, "but only when it's
foggy and there's no fishermen around." Wilmot, a member
of Baystate Health System's "Senior Class," will
attend a special presentation with Ellis and other Senior Class
members, also on October 8.
WFCR's special events
series continues with Connecticut Opera Express in two separate
programs, The Three Little Pigs and OperaTunities,
on November 9. The Capitol Steps will perform on December 12.
Tickets for Neenah
Ellis are priced from $8 to $20 and are on sale at the University
of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center box office. For tickets, call
545-2511 or 800-999-UMASS. Tickets may also be purchased online.
For the link to online
tickets, visit www.wfcr.org.
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