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Author Talk: David Alff
NEXT DATE: December 5, 2024 | 7 p.m. | Thursday
category: Academic Programs, Author Talks, Conferences, Research Seminars, Adult Programs | location: Library, Soda House
David Alff will speak about his book, The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region at the fall’s second author talk on December 5. It is the first comprehensive history of the most heavily-travelled train line in the United States. Alff shows how these nineteenth-century train tracks transformed hundreds of miles of Atlantic shoreline into a political capital, a global financial hub, and home to fifty million people.