Kevin Patti, a twenty-five year veteran of the National Park Service, has served as a park ranger at Clara Barton National Historic Site since 2005. At the request of the State Department in 2012 he traveled to Armenia to speak about Clara Barton and the relief effort she lead in 1896 to help Armenians who were affected by massacre. He has been featured on CSPAN leading a tour of Clara Barton National Historic Site. Mr. Patti has also worked at Glen Echo Park in Maryland, Great Falls Park in Virginia, Theodore Roosevelt Island and the Old Post Office Tower in Washington, DC. Join us as we commemorate the life and work of Clara Barton, heroine of the Civil War and founder of the American Red Cross, in recognition of her 200th birthday. Clara Barton broke through the barriers that so often confined women of the nineteenth century to the domestic sphere and had a long career of public service that touched people all over the world. She was an advocate for the expansion of rights for African Americans and women, a pioneer of public education in New Jersey, and the inventor of the first aid kit. This illustrated talk by Park Ranger Kevin Patti will use photographs from Clara Barton’s life and times to describe her service and the struggles she overcame along the way.
