Author Douglas J. Gladstone, whose book argues that the United States Department of the Interior's National Park Service (NPS) is chiseling Mount Rushmore's Italian-American chief carver out of posthumous credit, will talk about the issue before members of Noi Italiani D'Oggi (NIDO) at the Italian Center on Thursday, April 7 at 7 p.m.

Gladstone, whose book, "Carving a Niche for Himself; The Untold Story of Luigi Del Bianco and Mount Rushmore," was published by Bordighera Press in 2014, has spoken to the Midwestern regional director of the park service about the matter and enlisted the aid of The Order of the Sons of Italy's National Commission on Social Justice to remedy the situation.

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