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Event Videos — Dover Public Library

THE PRINCE OF WENTWORTH STREET: An American Boyhood in the Shadow of Genocide

THE PRINCE OF WENTWORTH STREET: An American Boyhood in the Shadow of Genocide

John Christie will present his memoir, The Prince of Wentworth Street: An American Boyhood in the Shadow of Genocide, about growing up in Dover, NH, in the 1950s and 1960s. John grew up next door to his grandmother, Rose Banaian, who was a survivor of the Armenian Genocide of the early 20th century in which 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman Empire.

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