Ron Eckberg to share ‘Christmas on the Frontlines’ at Erie, Walnut libraries

Historian has visited Normandy beaches

Walnut Public LIbrary — Walnut Public Library (Photo provided by Walnut Public Library)

December 07, 2023 at 2:00 pm CST

Local historian Ron Eckberg will be sharing Christmas on the Frontlines, the story of Christmas 1944 on the World War II battlefield, in Walnut and Erie.

Eckberg, who has visited the beaches of Normandy and written and spoken off on WWII history, will speak at 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 14, at the Walnut Public Library, 101 Heaton St., and from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 16, at the Erie Public Library, 802 Eighth Ave.