'No Swastikas in Southbury' author to speak at Oxford Public Library

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Please join the Oxford Historical Society and the Oxford Library as they host author Melinda Elliot as she discusses her book “No Swastikas in Southbury."

Register for this free program at http://www.eventkeeper.com/mars/xpages/xp_newpopevent.cfm...

Melinda K. Elliott grew up with a keen interest in history. 

She is always researching some historical topic and loves delving into the stories of long-forgotten people. Melinda enjoys sharing her latest finds through writing blog posts, articles, brochures, and books. She has had speaking engagements throughout of the state and on various zoom webinars streamed around the world. 

Melinda is the president of the Southbury Historical Society, and director of The Bullet Hill School - A Living Museum program. 

Her published books include Connecticut Schoolhouses Through Time, Southbury Through Time: Remnants of Our Past, and No Swastikas in Southbury. 

Melinda and her husband, Ray, enjoy road trips and are always on the lookout for one-room schoolhouses, covered bridges, old mills, and historic villages. 

They have three children, all living nearby, and eight grandchildren to spoil.

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Beacon Falls Library talk to focus on Allied invasion of Normandy

BEACON FALLS - Beacon Falls Public Library will host "Operation Overlord: The Allied Invasion of Normandy" at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 5.

In the spring of 1944, Nazi Germany was being hammered relentlessly by Soviet Armies on the Eastern Front and subjected to around-the-clock bombing by U.S. Army Air Forces by day, and the British Royal Air Force by night.

Allied armies in Great Britain were poised to launch an invasion across the English Channel to France which, if successful, would be the beginning of the end of The Third Reich.

In this 75th anniversary year, local historian Chris Bielik will discuss the more than two years of preparation, dissent among the British and American leaders, deception and intelligence operations that went into planning and executing what is now known as: D-Day.

The Library is at 10 Maple Ave.

This is shared from the Library's Facebook page.