Annual Triangle Fire Memorial & Awards Reception

Mar 23, 2018 781

Vincent C. Maltese, Chairman of the Triangle Fire Memorial Association (TFMA) announced their 2018 awardees will be honored at the 107th Anniversary Ceremony to be held on Sunday, March 25, 2:00 pm, at the Paolucci CNL Center at Christ the King Campus, 68-02 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village (Door #10).

This year’s awardees are:

- Paola Corso – Poet, fiction writer and essayist; author of award winning works on steelworkers and garment workers. She will be reading from her poetry on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.

- Prof. Edvige Giunta – Educator at New Jersey City University, award-winning author on Italian American Studies and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.

- Sondra E. McGill – Triangle Fire Memorial Association curator, art historian, and graduate of Bard College. She is a relative of a Triangle fire victim.

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SOURCE: http://www.qgazette.com/

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