Myron Stachiw will present an eyewitness account of the recent "orange revolution" in Ukraine and discuss the historical and cultural context of that important event, on Thursday, February 24 at 6:30 p.m. in Straus Library. This lecture is part of the Straus Dessert Program run by Milton Academy's Public Issues Board and is open to the public.

Myron Stachiw lives in East Woodstock, Connecticut, with his wife Nancy and son Andrew, who is currently a senior at Milton Academy.  Myron is an associate professor in the School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island.  He is currently conducting research in Ukraine as a Fulbright Fellow on the impacts of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster on the cultural heritage of the region that was heavily irradiated, and is working on the creation of a documentary film about the efforts of Ukrainian scholars to rescue the traditional folk culture of that region of Ukraine.