Hudson County - Hoboken - From the Library of Congress to Hoboken, New Jersey honors Hoboken’s critical role in “The Great War”

Sunday, November 11 – Hudson County

From the Library of Congress to Hoboken, New Jersey honors Hoboken’s critical role in “The Great War”
Hoboken Museum to host actor/creator Douglas Taurel in a solo performance of “An American Soldier’s Journey Home” on Sunday, November 11, at 4 pm

  Hoboken, N.J. – October 25, 2018 – On November 11, one hundred years after the last shot in The Great War was fired, Douglas Taurel will perform his new play, “An American Soldier’s Journey Home,” at the Hoboken Historical Museum, 1301 Hudson St., at 4 pm. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Reservations can be made from a link posted on the Museum’s website, www.hobokenmuseum.org.

  Taurel is an actor and creator of the acclaimed solo show, “The American Soldier.” The new play was commissioned by the Library of Congress’s Veterans History Project, and performed at the Library of Congress on Veterans Day and Memorial Day in 2017 to commemorate the centennial of World War I. Veterans Day, which celebrates the service of all U.S. veterans, is observed on the anniversary of the WWI Armistice, which was signed on November 11, 1918. 

  The play is based on the life of Irving Greenwald, a soldier who served in World War I in the 308th Infantry Regiment, who was part of the Lost Battalion. His diary is preserved by the Library of Congress Veterans History Project and is part of the Library’s exhibition, “Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I.” This play is being presented in conjunction with the Hoboken Museum’s exhibit, “World War I Centennial, 1917-2017: Heaven, Hell or Hoboken.”

Taurel explains, “As I worked on the WWI project, I decided to focus only on Irving  

The Library of Congress created the Veterans History Project in 2000 to collect, preserve and make accessible the firsthand remembrances of America’s war veterans from World War I through the more recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war. 

Location: 1301 Hudson St, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA

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