Maplewood Ideas Festival: David Brancaccio

MAPLEWOOD IDEAS FESTIVAL Maplewood Library wraps up its Centennial Year with the first annual Maplewood Ideas Festival and Maplewood Literary Award. For a full lineup of programs, go to www.maplewoodlibrary.org Programs are free and open to the public. David Brancaccio David Brancaccio is a journalist and host of for Marketplace Morning Report on National Public Radio. Brancaccio specializes in telling stories important to our economy and our democracy through the eyes of the real people who live in the cross hairs of crucial issues. His accessible yet authoritative approach to investigative reporting and in-depth interviewing earned his work the highest honors in broadcast journalism, including the Peabody, the Columbia-duPont, the Emmy, and the Walter Cronkite awards. Brancaccio lives in South Orange. The topic of his talk this evening is A Tale of Three Cities: Lessons from Main Street America in Making a Better Local Economy. Thursday, April 3 7:00 pm in Memorial Hall