KENNEBUNK — The Kennebunk Free Library Genealogy Group will host Carrie Beverly at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 10 to give a presentation exploring the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War. 

This presentation, based on six years of research and an extraordinary archive of unpublished letters from a half dozen Flyboys, goes beyond recounting wartime experience one by one.  It exposes the deeper fabric that binds them together – their inextricable capacity to adopt habits that were sacrosanct to their identity. 

At a time when “victory” was a lifestyle, a culture and a cult and America’s only goal, Generation 1914 ironically became a symbol for anything irrevocably lost.  It was a painful label for WWI airmen whose life expectancy was three to eight weeks.    

Carrie Beverly is a member of The League of WWI Aviation Historians and lives in Maine. Her 30-year career as a consultant, writer, and researcher provided a platform from which she chose pet projects.

One of those was a political appointment as a Community Educator for the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) and Coors Distributorship to promote math and sciences to scores of underserved school kids. 

Beverly holds a masters degree in political science and today, she continues to follow diverse interests in history, writing, and crafts.

The Genealogy Group is free, open to the public and meets nine times a year.  It welcomes all new guests.

This event is wheelchair accessible and the Kennebunk Free Library is located at 112 Main St. in Kennebunk.

For more information, call 985-2173 or visit www.kennebunklibrary.org.