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04/20/2017 12:01 AM

Memorial Archives Presents Lecture on ‘Stalemate in the Trenches’


Elville L. Harris, a World War I veteran, moved from Killingworth to Madison after the war and worked as a mechanic. Harris is holding his son Leroy Harris on Memorial Day 1925, Leroy Harris would go on to serve in World War II.Photo courtesy of the Charlotte L. Evarts Memorial Archives

The Charlotte L. Evarts Memorial Archives will host, as part of its World War I Lecture Series, a talk titled “Stalemate in the Trenches” on Thursday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. on the third floor of Memorial Hall, 8 Meetinghouse Lane, Madison.

Charles Fischer—Navy veteran, A.B. Bates College, M.A. University of Connecticut, 6th year Wesleyan University with Honors, and Coe Fellowship at Yale—is a Madison resident and popular guest lecturer on a variety of subjects. He retired from the Madison School System, where he had taught English, social studies, and history for 36 years.

Fischer will present an in-depth view of the long term effects of the socio/economic factors of World War I that ultimately led up to World War II.

The lecture is part of the ongoing exhibit Over There, Over Here. Madison in WWI, a joint effort of the Madison Historical Society and The Charlotte L. Evarts Memorial Archives. Exhibits are located in Memorial Hall and can be viewed daily on the second and third floors, and the main exhibit is in nearby Lee’s Academy, open on Saturdays until October, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.