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San Diego Public Library: War Comes Home: The Legacy at The Central Library

The San Diego Public Library will host an exhibit called "War Comes Home: The Legacy" from July 5th to August 16th. The exhibit features letters from American troops and their families throughout history that reveal the personal impacts of war. On July 16th, the library will host Andrew Carroll, the exhibit's co-curator and director of the Center for American War Letters, who will share original letters and accept donations. The event will also include a performance by veterans sharing stories from the radio show "Incoming." The exhibit aims to give an intimate perspective on how war changes lives and communities through the thoughts and emotions expressed in personal correspondence.

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San Diego Public Library: War Comes Home: The Legacy at The Central Library

The San Diego Public Library will host an exhibit called "War Comes Home: The Legacy" from July 5th to August 16th. The exhibit features letters from American troops and their families throughout history that reveal the personal impacts of war. On July 16th, the library will host Andrew Carroll, the exhibit's co-curator and director of the Center for American War Letters, who will share original letters and accept donations. The event will also include a performance by veterans sharing stories from the radio show "Incoming." The exhibit aims to give an intimate perspective on how war changes lives and communities through the thoughts and emotions expressed in personal correspondence.

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San Diego Public Library

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Kara West

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

619-236-5881

Press photographs available upon request

[email protected]

WAR COMES HOME: THE LEGACY AT THE CENTRAL LIBRARY


Exhibit Features Letters Revealing How War Changes Lives, Families, Communities
JULY 16TH EVENT FEATURES SO SAY ALL AND AUTHOR ANDREW CARROLL

SAN DIEGO Highlighting private correspondence from almost every major conflict in U.S.
history, new exhibition War Comes Home: The Legacy opened on July 5, 2015 at the San Diego
Central Library @ Joan Irwin Jacobs Common and will run through August 16 in the
Dickinson Popular Library. The traveling exhibition, rich with historic and contemporary letters,
offers an intimate perspective into the thoughts and emotions of troops, veterans, and their
families when their loved ones come home.
War Comes Home: The Legacy is part of Cal Humanities current War Comes Home initiative, a
thematic program designed to promote greater understanding of veterans and explore how war
shapes a community. The exhibition is based on the work of the Center for American War Letters
(CAWL) and is presented by Exhibit Envoy. Andrew Carroll, the Director of CAWL and an
award-winning and New York Times bestselling author, and John Benitz, Associate Professor in
the Department of Theatre at Chapman University, co-curated the exhibition.
The exhibition explores the joys and hardships that returning troops and their families face

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during homecoming, as expressed through private letters and emails. Spanning conflicts from the
Civil War through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and displayed on thirteen interpretive panels,
War Comes Home: The Legacy explores the shared themes of wartime separation, the adjustment
to life back at home, and the costs of war.
-moreOn Thursday, July 16 at 5 p.m., the Central Library will be hosting special guest Andrew Carroll,
the co-curator of the War Comes Home exhibit and Director of the Center for American War
Letters. Mr. Carroll will be bring original letters to share and will also accept donations of letters
to the Center for American War Letters at Chapman University from veterans and their
families. More on the center can be found at http://www.WarLetters.us and more on the war
letters project can be seen on ABC news http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/war-lettersamerican-history-31273090.
The event will continue in the Neil Morgan Auditorium at 5:30 p.m. for a live performance by
some of the veteran writers featured on the new radio show from So Say We All and KPBS,
Incoming, an initiative born from a series of veteran writing workshops provided by So Say We
All at the Central Library that allows the men and women of the military to bring you true stories
from their lives, told in their own words, directly from their own mouths. Incoming can be heard
online at kpbs.org/incoming or at incomingradio.org.
Guests are encouraged to view the exhibit before the performance to see the exhibition and have
a chance to meet Andrew Carroll.
Exhibition Support
War Comes Home: The Legacy is a partnership between Cal Humanities, the California State
Library and Exhibit Envoy. It is supported in part by the National Endowment for the
Humanities, the BayTree Fund, The Whitman Fund, and the U.S. Institute of Museum and
Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered

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in California by the State Librarian. Learn more about Exhibit Envoy at www.exhibitenvoy.org
and about Cal Humanities at www.calhum.org.

The San Diego Public Library


Inspiring lifelong learning through connections to knowledge and each other.
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