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Books & Brews, April 2017

On April 11, 2017 at 7pm, at Pale Fire Brewing Co. in Harrisonburg, our Books & Brews series featured author, and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Glenn Frankeldiscussing the House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings in the early 1950's, the Hollywood Blacklist, and the making of the film High Noon. 

The evening was co-sponsored by the Massanutten Regional Library.

With our Books and Brews events, when you present your WMRA MemberCard, you'll receive a certificate for a complimentary beer.

Glenn Frankel is an author and journalist, based in Arlington Virginia. His most recent position was director of the School of Journalism and G.B. Dealey Regents Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and he also spent four years as a visiting journalism professor at Stanford University. He was a longtime Washington Post reporter, editor and bureau chief in London, Southern Africa and Jerusalem, where he won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for "balanced and sensitive reporting" of Israel and the first Palestinian uprising. He later served as editor of the Washington Post Magazine. 

Matt Bingay is the Executive Director and General Manager for WMRA and WEMC.