MOUNT VERNON — Ed Rice, former journalist, college instructor and author of “Baseball’s First Indian,” will talk about Louis Sockalexis at 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 8, at the Dr. Shaw Memorial Library, 344 Pond Road.
Sockalexis is the first known Native American to play professional baseball, and also became a major civil rights icon representing the Penobscot Nation and Maine.
The event is free and refreshments will be served.
For more information, call Mary Anne Libby, library assistant, at 293-2565.
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