Mark Di Ionno & Amy Ellis Nutt talk about Hurricane Sandy @ Warren Library

Superstorm “Sandy”: A view from the inside with Mark Di Ionno and Amy Ellis Nutt.

Saturday, March 9 at 2 pm - Pre-registration is required due to limited seating.

Warren Twp Library – 42 Mountain Boulevard, Warren, NJ 07059 – Phone: 908-754-5554 ext 64

Columnist Mark Di Ionno and Pulitzer Prize winner Amy Ellis Nutt covered Superstorm Sandy for The Star-Ledger from the very beginning and are following its aftermath and reconstruction efforts, especially in the Jersey Shore area. Find out about their experiences covering this devastating event in NJ history. Why was this storm a weather event unlike anything that had happened in past history? Learn about the people they met along the way, how the Shore residents came together as a community and the assistance they received from unlikely sources, such as the Amish.

Amy Ellis Nutt has been a staff writer at The Star-Ledger since 1997. She was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, for the story, ‘The Wreck of the Lady Mary,’ the mysterious sinking of a fishing boat off the coast of New Jersey in 2009. Amy is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Mark Di Ionno is a lifetime newspaperman and a four-time winner of the New Jersey Press Association’s first-place award for column writing for The Star-Ledger.   Besides his work as columnist and author, Mark is also an adjunct professor of journalism at his alma-mater Rutgers Newark. Di Ionno is the author of three award-winning nonfiction books about New Jersey. His first novel The Last Newspaperman, released in September of 2012, was a finalist in the 2012 USA Best Book Awards in the General Fiction category.
This is a special opportunity to meet these award-winning journalists and writers and appreciate the unique experiences and perspective they gained covering Superstorm Sandy 'from the trenches'.

This program is free to the public but pre-registration is required due to limited seating. Click to register here or visit the website at http://www.sclsnj.org. You may also call 908-754-5554 ext 64 for more information or assistance with registration. The Somerset County Library System has branches in Bridgewater, Bound Brook, Hillsborough, Manville, at the Mary Jacobs Library in Rocky Hill, North Plainfield, Peapack & Gladstone, Somerville, Warren Township and Watchung.