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Author Emily Yellin of "Our Mothers' War" Tapped for Home Front Festival Keynote Speaker
August 17, 2007

Emily Yellin, author of the critically acclaimed Our Mothers’ War, has been selected as the keynote speaker for the Rosie the Riveter Trust fundraiser gala that will kick off the Home Front Festival-by-the-Bay on  the evening of September 28th. You need to be there! Your business needs to be represented at the formal opening of Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park!

 

The event It will be held at the edge of the Bay in the dramatic, glass-enclosed Craneway of the historic waterfront Ford Assembly Building, where tanks were outfitted for World War II.  “Think Big" — a Kaiser Exhibit,” will be on display for the first time in Richmond. This is the first event ever to be held in the restored craneway!

 

If you or your business would like to attend the gala dinner and help support Rosie the Riveter Trust, contact the following for tickets or table sponsorships for “Launching of Rosie the Riveter” at the future site of the National Park Service’s Visitor Education Center by being a sponsor. Your generosity will be recognized in the program.

 

 ·        Rosie the Riveter:  $5,000 table of 10

·         Rosie the Welder: $3,000 seats for 6

·         Rosie the Electrician: $2,000 seats for 4

·         Rosie the Pipe Fitter: $1000 seats for 2

 

Individual Seats are $150 (These are not sponsor level and are not acknowledged in the program).  For acknowledgement purposes, we ask that potential sponsors respond by August 17th. Contact:

 

Jane Bartke                                                   

Launching of Rosie the Riveter Event Co-Chair                                           

510.235.1315

Omabartke@aol.com

 

Our Mothers’ War is Emily Yellin’s first book. She has been a longtime contributor to The New York Times. Her work has also appeared in Time, Newsweek, The International Herald Tribune and other publications. In 2004, she contributed the chapter about women to the WWII Memorial commemorative book, The World War II Memorial: A Grateful Nation Remembers.

Born in White Plains, New York, Emily Yellin grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. She received a B.A. in English literature from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and an M.S. in journalism from Northwestern University. In the mid-1990s, she taught journalism at The University of Memphis. She has also lived in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and London, but currently lives in Memphis, with her dog Sophie Yellin.

 

Eloquent and eye-opening, this ground-breaking book is the first to give full voice to the wide array of real women behind the stock female images of World War II. From Wonder Woman to Rosie the Riveter, and the everyday heroes, and even a few villains, in between -- these are not your father’s war stories.

 

Acclaimed by The New York Times as an “important new book,” and an example of “first-rate research and reporting,” and by The Washington Post as, “exceptionally well-written,” Our Mothers' War portrays women as equal partners in fighting and winning a war that forever transformed the way women participated in American society.

Readers will come to see the surprisingly vast scope of American women's experiences during that pivotal era. Our Mothers' War offers a comprehensive portrait of what American women from all walks of life were doing and thinking, on the home front and abroad.

 

http://www.ourmotherswar.com/images/GoodWordSis.jpgSparked by finding a journal and letters her mother had written home from the Pacific while serving with the Red Cross, journalist Emily Yellin embarked on a broad investigation of how the women of her mother's generation responded to this time when their country asked them to step into roles they had never been invited, or allowed, to fill before.

 

Drawing on a wide range of sources, including personal interviews and previously unpublished letters and diaries, Yellin brings to life intimate tales of women working as spies, war correspondents, disc jockeys, pilots, and prostitutes, as well of women building ships, planes and bombs, sending their husbands, brothers and sons off to war, and joining the military themselves for the first time in American history.

 

Our Mothers' War gives center stage to one of World War II’s most essential, but often overlooked, American fighting forces.