All are invited to the Friends of the Mattapoisett Library’s annual meeting to be held on July 21 at 6:30 pm at the Mattapoisett Free Public Library, 7 Barstow Street.
After a brief business meeting, special guest Cheryl Hatch, independent journalist, photographer and professor, will present “Let This Ebola End” about her recent trip to Liberia, where she documented the humanitarian efforts by Liberians and members of the U.S. military during the Ebola outbreak, for which she received a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Her articles have been published in VICE News, Foreign Policy, San Francisco Chronicle and the LA Review of Books. Hatch has worked also worked in Somalia, Iraq, Eritrea, and Afghanistan, reporting on war and its effects on soldiers, their families, and those in the crossfire. Her photographs have been exhibited at the Smithsonian, the Sony Gallery in Cairo, Egypt and at the Leica Gallery in Solms, Germany. Her work has also been published in newspapers and magazines, including Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, and Paris Match.
Come for an enlightening talk and to hear about the benefits of Friends’ membership and what the Friends have been up to this past year.