Rosalie Riegle on 'Crossing the Line' - May 20th

Time Tested Books 

is pleased to welcome

Rosalie Riegle

Monday, May 20, 2013 at 7 p.m.

for a Reading & Discussion

of her newest book, 

Crossing the Line: Nonviolent Resisters

Speak Out for Peace,

a compelling history of those who say no to war making in the strongest way possible: by engaging in civil disobedience and paying the consequences in jail or prison.

Photo by Bob Fitch

 Rosalie Riegle, author of Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family and Community, is a peace activist and oral historian from Michigan and Illinois.  She taught English for 33 years at Saginaw Valley State University and co-founded two Catholic Worker houses in Saginaw, Michigan.

 Rosalie G. Riegle, D.A. is Professor Emerita in English at Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, MI. There she taught Humanities, Women’s Studies, Composition, and English literature; chaired the Honors Program; and received the Landee Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Ishihara Student Service Award, and the Faculty Research Award as well as the Rush Distinguished Lectureship. Degrees are from St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN; Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Her pevious published oral histories are Voices from the Catholic Worker (Temple University Press, 1993) and Dorothy Day: Portraits by Those Who Knew Her (Orbis Books, 2003). Currently she retains membership in the Peace and Justice Studies Association and is active in the Oral History Association and the American Catholic Historical Association.

This event is FREE and everyone is invited.