Back To News/PR Index | Churchill’s Great-Grandchildren Pay Inaugural Visit to National Churchill Museum | Dr. Rob Havers, the museum’s executive director and internationally renowned Churchill historian, will provide commentary to journalists and educators | They will be joined by Churchill biographer Paul Reid, who will deliver the annual Enid and R. Crosby Kemper Lecture at 2 p.m. on March 2. This event is free and open to the public. Reid’s lecture is titled, “Churchill, A Portrait of Leadership.” Other
activities include the Churchill Fellows Dinner on March 1 and the “Ask
the Churchill Expert’s Brunch” at 11:30 a.m. on March 2. More information
about these can be found at www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org/churchillweekend.html.
(Left) Author Paul Reid Featured at National Churchill Museum Reid, a former feature writer for The Palm Beach Post, completed The Last Lion: William Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, the long anticipated third volume of William Manchester’s best-selling biography of Sir Winston Churchill. Manchester, who was in ill health at the time, asked Reid to complete this project one year before his death in 2004. The
National Churchill Museum on the campus of Westminster College in Fulton,
MO is the only North American institution fully devoted to immortalizing
the life and work of Churchill. The heart of the Museum is the magnificent
Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, a 17th century Christopher
Wren church left in ruin from German bombings during World War II. This
beautiful house of worship was brought stone by stone from England to Westminster
and restored on campus in 1969. The Museum is Open daily from 10 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. Regular admission prices are Adults-$7.50, Seniors, AAA and AARP-$6.50,
College Students and Youth (12-18)-$5.50, Children (6-11)-$4.50 and Children
(5 and under)-free. For more information, visit www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org,
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National Churchill Museum on the campus of Westminster College in Fulton, MO Photo/Interview Opps:
Rob Crouse Director of Media & PR Westminster College 573-592-5019 or 573-291-9399 |