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Kristen Crusato, Southwestern Regional Director for the Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter, will speak on how to deal with people with Alzheimer’s.
Kristen received her B.A in Communications from the State University of New York at Geneseo, and has 22 years working in the television industry. Her career path began at Cable 6 TV in Middletown, NY. She went on to KCBD in Lubbock, Texas and then spent 9 years at WTNH as an anchor/reporter.
After spending 4 years in San Diego working at KUSI-TV, Kristen returned to Connecticut in 2009, to help take care of her mother who had been diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia. Kristen went back to her job as the Co-Anchor of Good Morning Connecticut on WTNH News 8. She Emcee’d the New Haven Walk to End Alzheimer’s in 2010 and 2011, and late in 2011 left News 8 to join the CT Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association.
In her role as the Southwestern Regional Director, Kristen coordinates and implements all Chapter services and programs for those with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, families, professionals, and the general public. She is working towards the mission of a World Without Alzheimer’s, so that other families don’t have to lose loved ones to this mind-robbing disease.
From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour, comes City of Thieves, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival — and a remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime.
During the Nazis’ brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous directive: secure a dozen eggs for a powerful Soviet colonel to use in his daughter’s wedding cake. In a city cut off from all supplies and suffering unbelievable deprivation, Lev and Kolya embark on a hunt through the dire lawlessness of Leningrad and behind enemy lines to find the impossible.
By turns insightful and funny, thrilling and terrifying, City of Thieves is a gripping, cinematic World War II adventure and an intimate coming-of-age story with an utterly contemporary feel for how boys become men.
At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. Then came May 31, 1889, when the dam burst, sending a wall of water thundering down the mountain, smashing through Johnstown, and killing more than 2,000 people. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal.
Graced by David McCullough’s remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It also offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of responsibility they are necessarily behaving responsibly.
James A. “Jim” Himes the U.S. Representative for Connecticut’s 4th congressional district, serving since 2009, will be our guest speaker. Jim is a member of the House Committee on Financial Services, the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity, and the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
Greg Van Antwerp’s passionate second “career” is digging for historical treasures through every estate, garage and tag sale he can find. He will be sharing some of his search techniques and discoveries with us. He also writes a weekly column for Patch titled “The Urban Archaeologist” that is published in a average of 15 Patch towns each week.
Darien CT Chief of Police, Duane Lovello
Darien Chief of Police Duane Lovello was born and raised in Stamford. He attended Stamford High School, earned a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from the University of New Haven, a JD degree from the University of Connecticut, and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy in Quantico, VA .
He has been a police officer for over 30 years. Lovello joined the Darien PD in 1981 and was appointed Chief in 2005. He lives in Trumbull with his wife and two sons.
Jim Cameron, SMA member, MetroNorth watchdog, and rail enthusiast, will speak about inter-city rapid transit. He has recent personal experience riding high-speed rail in several cities in the Far East. He will also share his opinions about the future of high-speed rail travel in the U.S.
Karen Nisenson is founder/director of Arts for Healing, Inc. and will speak on how they provide integrated musical and art therapy for individuals with emotional or physical problems.
Arts for Healing, Inc. is located in New Canaan and was founded to serve the special needs population of children and adults living with communication disorders through integrated music therapy and art therapy. Their mission is to break through barriers that isolate them, creating a channel for self-expression through the arts.
Karen holds a M.M. in Piano Performance from the Julliard School and an M.A. in Music Therapy from New York University. She is a certified music therapist and an adjunct faculty member in Music Therapy at NYU where she has taught since 1978. She is also affiliated with the Nordoff-Robbins Center at NYU and has worked in the field of creative arts therapy for 25 years. As a mother of five, composer and musician, Karen brings a wealth of experience to her work.
Art Gottlieb, the noted naval historian who has previously given us fascinating talks on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway, will return to tell us about “The Battle of Britain,” its effect on the English people, and how they coped with it.
“The Battle of Britain” is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The name derives from a famous speech delivered by Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the House of Commons: “… the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin.”
Mr. Gottlieb is formerly Curator of Naval History, and Technical Director of Exhibits at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in NYC.
Gordon G. Chang, a lawyer, author, television pundit, and will speak on the current status of the USA relationship with China.
Gordon writes primarily on China, Asia, and nuclear proliferation and believes we will see discontinuous change around the world in the near future, so he is not into making long-range personal plans. He is author of two books, The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World. Gordon is a contributor to Forbes and on December 9, 2012 published an article in Forbes titled Move Over, Michigan, China Is The World’s Next Rust Belt.
Gordon is best known for his book The Coming Collapse of China (2001), in which he argued that the hidden non-performing loans of the “Big Four” Chinese State banks would likely bring down China’s financial system and its communist government and China would collapse in 2006.
He is a regular contributor to The John Batchelor Show, The Glenn Beck Program on Fox News, and CNN. He also appeared as a special guest on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in 2006. In February 2010, he appeared on Al Jazeera English and argued that China does not have a lot of economic leverage over the US, and it is actually the other way around. In November 2010, he appeared on Imus in the Morning to discuss the Yeonpyeong bombing.