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

The truly inspiring Dougherty opens up about a life changing experience when he & his spouse met many surivors 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.