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70TH ANNIVERSARY OF BATTLES OF SAIPAN AND TINIAN
Petty and Castro to present this week
Visiting author and Vietnam War veteran Bruce M. Petty and Marie Castro will be making their presentations and book signing this week.
Petty will be presenting this Thursday, June 12, from 6pm to 8pm and Castro will be presenting on Friday, June 13, from 5pm to 6pm. Both presentations will be held at the American Memorial Park’s Visitors Center.
Petty will talk about the current status of his search to find World War II soldiers who are missing in action.
For the past several years, Petty has been networking with families of the missing and connecting with individuals and groups who are involved in the search to find them.
Castro will present her book Without a Penny in My Pocket where she recounts her life before, during, and after World War II, with her story beginning in the 1930s.
Castro is formerly known as Sister Soledad, having dedicated herself to the church and becoming a nun in the Mercederian Order and a teacher. After more than a decade of teaching on Saipan, she moved to Kansas City and has lived there ever since.
Petty, along with his wife and children, lived on Saipan from 1995 to 2000.
While on Saipan, he researched and wrote his first book, Saipan: Histories of the Pacific War. Since then he has written three other books on World War II in the Pacific, the latest being New Zealand in The Pacific War.
For the past four years, Petty has been a Pacific War lecturer for Princess Cruises and lives in New Plymouth, New Zealand.
The presentation is sponsored by the Northern Marianas Humanities Council through funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and is part of the council’s ongoing Community Lecture Series.
It is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact the Humanities Council staff at 670-235-4785.
