FW: bill green to speak feb 28

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From: Glenda Gephart [mailto:gle...@racingarchives.org]
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 4:45 PM
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Subject: bill green to speak feb 28

 

Bill Green to Speak about Racing Collectibles

(for immediate release – Feb. 10, 2009)

 

WATKINS GLEN – International Motor Racing Research Center Historian Bill Green will discuss the hobby of collecting race memorabilia on Saturday, Feb. 28, at the Center.

His talk is presented as part of the monthly series, Center Conversations. It will begin at 1 p.m. and is free and open to all.

The Center is located at 610 S. Decatur St., Watkins Glen.

Green has been a fan of Watkins Glen racing since the first event in 1948, when he was 8 years old. His collection of race materials, now legendary, was started that day, too.

Green has written one book, “Watkins Glen, From Griswold to Gordon: Fifty Years of Competition at the Home of American Road Racing,” with J.J. O’Malley. He consulted on two other books about Watkins Glen: “Watkins Glen, 1948-52, The Definitive Illustrated History” by Philippe Defechereux and “The Glen, 50 Years of Road Racing Excellence.”

He has been Watkins Glen track historian since 1968, Glen Region SCCA historian since 1974 and Race Communications Association historian since 1998. From 1984-95, Green was deputy archivist for the SCCA.

Green has been Center historian since 2004.

 

 

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For more information: Mark Steigerwald, Center director of Archives and Administration, (607) 535-9044 or by email at ma...@racingarchives.org