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On Wednesday April 4th, Chicago’s Newberry Library will be hosting a lecture on the 1949 and 1950 Arctic expeditions of Edmund B. Thornton (a.k.a. my dad!). From the Newberry Library’s website:

“During the summers of 1949 and 1950, Mr. Thornton served as a crew member on the Schooner Bowdoin out of Boothbay Harbor, Maine on two expeditions to the Arctic. He reached a latitude of eleven degrees from the North Pole, and had contacts with the Native Inuit in North Greenland. This visually stunning program will include highlights of Mr. Thornton’s Arctic experience together with comments on the history and exploration of the Arctic Regions.”

If you will be in Chicago, and have any interest in geography, history or anthropology, I recommend that you attend this lecture. Click here to register for this event.