Nellie Bly’s Birthday Celebration Saturday, May 4, 2024 6:30-8:00 p.m. at the WCTU Building.
Brooke Kroeger is a journalist, professor emerita at NYU, and the author of six books, the latest of which is Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism, published by A.A. Knopf in May 2023. It explores how women have fared in American journalism’s most competitive and highly valued bastions, the ones men have dominated in the 180 years since mass media began. One of her earlier books is Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist (1994, an NPR Best Books of the Year), the definitive Nellie Bly biography. Brooke will explore the role of women in journalism, with special emphasis on Nellie Bly.
The presentation will be followed by a question/answer period. Birthday cake will conclude the program! Admission is $5 with children 12 and under free. Parking is available at the Apollo Bank lot across the street from the WCTU Building. If there is an overflow crowd, we will move to the Lutheran Church just a short walk from the WCTU Building.
Apollo Area Historical Society 