Author Event: An Artist Goes to War with Victoria Granacki

Date2026-05-09 · 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
LocationEdgewater
CategoryEducation
PriceFree
SourceChicago Public Library

Author Victoria Granacki will share the moving story of her father’s service in the South Pacific during WWII, including serving as General MacArthur’s mapmaker. The personal account is of an ordinary, working-class, Polish American Chicagoan drafted into the U.S. Army in 1941 and his wartime experiences. The multi-media presentation will include pen-and-ink maps, jungle watercolors, journal

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