Set Sail on the Titanic with Award-Winning Author Allan Wolf

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SOPHIE BLACKALL

Summer Reading at Johnson County Library

Author and performance poet Allan Wolf demonstrates how he transforms historical fact into historical fiction. Experience the 1912 voyage of the doomed Titanic through poetry, storytelling, costume pieces and historical photos as Wolf presents a special interactive author talk based on his multi-voice novel, “The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic.” With a

5-foot long Titanic model “puppet,” Wolf demonstrates how the ship was constructed, struck ice, broke in half and then sank. He addresses Titanic myths and facts and brings some of the Titanic’s passengers to life: the ship’s designer, the ship’s owner, the captain, a 9-year-old boy, the “unsinkable” Molly Brown, even the iceberg itself! Booklist named “Watch” one of the 50 Best YA Books of All Time.

This program will be hosted using the meeting software Zoom. A Johnson County Library staff member will contact registrants via email the day before the meeting with instructions on how to access the Zoom meeting. You do not need to download any software or create an account.

Register for this program online or call 913-826-4600.