**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Meeting via email.**  

Around the globe, half of the 6000 languages spoken today are projected to go extinct within the next 30 years. Unsung linguists and volunteers are working tirelessly to ensure that these languages don’t disappear and erase thousands of years of human knowledge. Discover this amazing story and what the stories these vanishing tongues can tell about the places we call home in America, or our cradles of civilization. Find out the secret relics of vanished languages that shape the way we speak. The talk draws on the latest research, assembled in conjunction with Endangered Language Association, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving endangered languages. Led by Eamon McCarthy Earls, author of 10 books, including Twisted Sisters: How Four Superstorms Forever Changed the Northeast in 1954 & 1955 and Cold War New England: How One Region Fought to Keep the Cold War from Getting Hot. Currently a law school student at George Mason University, Eamon received a BA in History and BS in Genealogy from UMass Amherst, and a MBA from Western Governors University.  

Register directly on Zoom HERE. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.