FREE Public Lecture, Wed., Feb. 3, at the USGS – Meet the Author
Please join us for the next lecture in the monthly USGS Public Lecture Series: Science in Action on Wednesday, February 3 at 7:00 PM. Dr. Martha Sandweiss will present “Passing Strange – The Secret Life of Clarence King.” Lectures are held at the USGS National Center, Dallas Peck Memorial Auditorium, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20192. For more information access http://www.usgs.gov/public_lecture_series/
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| Wednesday February 3, 2010 7:00 PM Title: Passing Strange By Dr. Martha Sandweiss USGS – Dallas L. Peck Memorial Auditorium Noted author Martha Sandweiss will share the amazing story of the secret life of Clarence King, the first USGS director. While he was well-known as a brilliant scientist and architect of the great surveys that mapped the West after the Civil War, he held a deep secret that was not revealed until decades later. Come hear this fascinating account of a man who by day socialized with the upper reaches of society and by night lived secretly as a black man. Not even his family knew his secret. |
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