Book Talk & Signing - Moon Shadow Of War

 Moon Shadow Of War by Len
Yannielli, Silas Bronson Library, WTBY,

Book Talk & Signing Tuesday, March
11 – 6:30p.m.

There were many casualties of the U.S. War in Vietnam. Like
a moon shadow on a deep snow piercing a clear, winter night, the U.S. War in
Vietnam cast a shroud over my the  life
and teaching career of Waterbury native Len Yannielli. There were more educators
fired during the late 1960’s and early 1970s than during the depths of the cold
war and he  was one of them. The U.S. War
in Vietnam loomed over his entire life at the time. A high school classmate was
killed in it. As a young teacher, Yannielli’s 
opposition to the war ranged from a peace poster in his eighth grade
science classroom to a huge, black “Z” taped to the trunk of his car. He fought
the military draft while finding his own purpose in life. In this engaging
memoir, the reader learns how it all happened through the eyes of one young
teacher who learned to thrive while in the Moon Shadow of War.

     Raised in the North End of
Waterbury, Yannielli holds two master’s degrees, won a National Educator of the
Year Award from the National Association of Biology Teachers, Biology Science
Curriculum Studies and the American Institute of Biological Studies  in 2009 and is Professor Emeritus of
Naugatuck Valley Community College.