Edition No. 82
Arts and Culture
The 5th annual Detroit Festival of Books celebrates goodwill effort to help generate a deeper love and appreciation of books.
Community and Family
Celebrated centenarian: former WAC member, grandmother of War Memorial employee turns 100!
Detroit Festival of Books
The 5th annual Detroit Festival of Books, also known as Detroit Bookfest, is dedicated to promoting the joy of reading and the rich culture surrounding it.
July 17, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the festival is at Eastern Market in Detroit, located at 2934 Russell St. It is free to attend and will take place in Shed 5.
Feature vendors will sell a variety of books from used, rare, antiquarian, unusual, ephemera and more. Additionally, vinyl records, comic books, creative arts, vintage board games and more will be sold.
The festival is a goodwill effort to help generate a deeper love and appreciation of books. Vendors will keep 100% of their proceeds. An Official Bookfest Afterparty down the street at Eastern Market Brewing Company is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. A Bookfest Bash will also be held inside Bea’s Detroit from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Barbeque will be available at Detroit Bookfest from Delray Barbecue, and ice cream from Treat Dreams.
It’s a time of celebration for the family of an employee at The War Memorial!
July 11, Jennie Woods DeAngelis celebrated her 100th birthday. Now living in Ormond Beach, Florida, she resided in Michigan for many decades after World War II. In the 1940s, Woods DeAngelis was chosen to represent North Dakota as part of the Women’s Army Corps, or WAC.
"We asked her what the secret is to being 100 years old and she said ‘David, I haven’t worried about anything for 40 years.’ She’s sharp as a tack and having a conversation with her is amazing,” her grandson, David DeAngelis, said. DeAngelis is the director of facilities and campus operations at The War Memorial.
During the war, she was an original member of the WAC, with one woman representing from each state in the U.S. This came prior to Hawaii and Alaska being added as states.
Her brigade landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France in the summer of 1944, a few weeks after Allied forces arrived on June 6.
Next May, Les Braves II: At Water’s Edge is expected to be officially and formally dedicated on the grounds of The War Memorial Association in Grosse Pointe Farms. The 50-foot-wide and 25-foot-tall sculpture is the official world-wide twin of the original Les Braves in Normandy, France — located in the Vierville-sur-Mer on Omaha Beach at the junction of dog red and easy green sectors.
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