Where:
Milos Public library
476 Canton Avenue
Milton, MA 02186
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
< 21, Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
[email protected]
Curry College and the Friends of the Milton Cemetery are sponsoring a visit by Carol Bradley, author of “Last Chain on Billie” . She will be a guest speaker at the Milton Public library on Wednesday, April 12 at 7 PM in the Keys Room. Ms. Bradley is flying in from her home in Montana as part an educational program and art theme that is townwide. As a result of a collaboration of Joan Clifford, Milton Art Center Director, Will Adamczyk, Library Director and Therese Desmond, Superintendent of the Cemetery, this theme has taken on a life of its own. Check out the Art in the Windows displays beginning May 15 and the topiary elephants which will reside by the Duck Pond in the Cemetery beginning in late April.
Ms. Bradley spent many years as a newspaper reporter in her home state of Tennessee in New York, Washington D.C. and Montana before turning to books. This is her second non- fiction work about how one extraordinary elephant escaped the Big Top. After decades of performing as a circus elephant, ‘Billie” finally got a lucky break. As part of the largest elephant rescue in American history, she wound up at a sanctuary for performing elephants in Tennessee, able once more to roam through open meadows and share her days with a herd.
It is a captivating story of this abused circus elephant and it chronicles the astonishing history of captive elephants in America. Her work sets the stage for the recent decisions by Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey and several other circuses to pull the plug on their elephant acts.
Anthropologist Jane Goodall, in commenting on Ms. Bradley’s book said it is “powerful and haunting. I urge everyone to buy and read and share this important – and beautifully written – book.”