{ "name": "Bookmark Series: \u201cWar Fronts Home Fires: A WWII correspondent's remarkable coverage, his wife's indomitable spirit\u201d", "description": "New Hampshire author and journalist Joe McQuaid will join the Institute to \npresent a true New Hampshire story about his parents and World War II, with \nWar Fronts Home Fires: A WWII correspondent's remarkable coverage, his wife's \nindomitable spirit.\n\nAs a World War II newspaper correspondent, B.J. McQuaid covered American and \nBritish front lines from the frozen Aleutian Islands of Alaska, to the \nsteaming jungles and seas of the South Pacific, at Tarawa and Guadalcanal and \nthen to Europe from D-Day forward in France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany.\n\nB.J. interviewed Sir Bernard Law Montgomery during the Battle of the Bulge \nand went toe-to-toe with U.S. Third Army General George S. Patton. He \ninterviewed and got the names of frontline soldiers and sailors, providing a \nlink to their families back home in towns and cities across the United \nStates. His stories ran in more than 80 American newspapers through the \nChicago Daily News Service.\n\nHe was separated from his wife, Peg McQuaid, and two small children for three \nyears. Peg kept the Home Fires burning back in New Hampshire, providing for \nherself and their two small children. She dealt with food, oil, and gasoline \nrationing while writing faithfully and regularly to her husband overseas.\n\nTheirs is a story of love, of sacrifice, and of hope. Even 80 years after \nD-Day in Europe, it will still resonate with many Americans.\n\nBooks may be purchased in advance at your local bookseller or online.\u00a0\n\nFree and open to the public.\n\n", "startDate": "2024-03-19", "startTime": "17:00", "endDate": "2024-03-19", "endTime": "18:30", "label": "Add to Calendar", "options": [ "Apple", "Google", "iCal", "Microsoft365", "MicrosoftTeams", "Outlook.com", "Yahoo" ], "timeZone": "America\/New_York", "trigger": "click", "listStyle": "modal", "iCalFileName": "anselm-event-14801", "location": "New Hampshire Institute of Politics" }