SHREWSBURY — A special presentation from the Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library of Honolulu, Hawaii, will be featured at the Eastern Branch of the Monmouth County Library at 5 p.m. Dec. 1 at the Route 35 facility.
Dorinda Makanonalani Nicholson, who was 6 years old and a resident of Pearl City Peninsula on Dec. 7, 1941, will speak via Skype from Hawaii to recount her experience and memories of the day which is forever known as the “date that will live in infamy.”
Nicholson lived with her family and her dog, Hula Girl, in their home a few hundred yards from where the USS Utah was moored. The Utah was the first ship attacked at Pearl Harbor in the attack which brought the United States into World War II. The ship remains submerged in Hawaii as a memorial grave for those who lost their lives when the ship was struck by torpedoes and sank.
The presentation will be shown on the large screen in the library’s theater room.
The unique program will enable library visitors in Monmouth County to hear firsthand this account of the Pearl Harbor attack.
For information on this and all programs within the Monmouth County Library system, visit www.monmouthcountylib.org.