Kathleen Brady

Author Kathleen Brady will present “History Made in Chautauqua County: How Ida Tarbell and Lucille Ball Changed America” at Jamestown Community College.

The presentation will take place at 4 p.m. on Thursday, March 24 in the Sheldon Center Room 332. It’s free and open to the public.

It will be Brady’s second appearance in Jamestown on Thursday. She is also slated to appear at the Robert H. Jackson Center for a noontime event as part of the Turner Winter Series, presented in conjunction with Chautauqua Institution. Brady will be interviewed by Turner series host, Gregory Peterson. The event will be streamed live on Youtube.  It will also be broadcast at 2 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. Sunday on WRFA.

Brady, a St. Bonaventure University Lenna visiting professor, has written biographies on both women. She was named a Fellow of the Society of American Historians for her book, “Ida Tarbell: Portrait of a Muckraker” while her critically well-received “Lucille, The Life of Lucille Ball” is in its fifth printing.

Brady is a past co-director of the Biography Seminar at New York University and a former reporter for Time Magazine. She has contributed columns to Newsday and other publications.

The visit by the Chief Justice comes ten years after the dedication of the Robert H. Jackson Center by Justice Roberts’s immediate predecessor, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist.  Chief Justice Roberts will be delivering a speech from the center’s front porch on 4^th Street, and the address will be open to the public.

Chief Justice Roberts was born in Buffalo, New York in 1955, the son of Rosemary and John Glover “Jack” Roberts, Sr. His father was a plant manager with Bethlehem Steel. The future Chief Justice lived in Buffalo until he was in fourth grade.

Jackson Center founder and board member Greg Peterson calls Roberts’ visit an important milestone for the Jackson Center, saying it demonstrates not only the Center’s past successes in preserving Justice Jackson’s legacy, but also the continuing role of the Jackson Center in teaching the lessons of Justice Jackson’s life and work to future generations

In Conjunction with the appearance by the Chief Justice, the C-SPAN Bus will be parked outside the Robert H. Jackson Center from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Educators, students and community members attending the event are welcome to board the bus, which is equipped with touchscreen computers that demonstrate the multimedia resources C-SPAN provides and helps students understand how the media affect political viewpoints in America.

According to Greg Peterson, Jackson Center co-founder and board member, Chief Justice Roberts’s planned visit demonstrates not only the Center’s past successes in preserving the legacy of Justice Jackson, but also the continuing role the Jackson Center has in teaching the lessons of Jackson’s life and work.

The visit by the Chief Justice comes ten years after the dedication of the Robert H. Jackson Center by Justice Roberts’s immediate predecessor, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist.  The Chief Justice’s address from the front porch of the Jackson Center will be open to the public.

For information about the Robert H. Jackson Center and Chief Justice Roberts’s visit, please visit the website at www.roberthjackson.org or phone 716-483-6646.