Poet, Peace activist, and Chair, English Dept., Corning Community College

The truly inspiring Dougherty opens up about a life changing experience when he and his spouse met many survivors of the Aug, 6, 1945 atomic bomb when they worked for several years at a peace center in Hiroshima, Japan. Reads 3 poems from his book, Pilgrimage to a Gingko Tree, which was inspired by his Hiroshima experience.