Westwood Village Rotary Club

Our speaker, Paul Papanek, has become the go-to photographer for small boutique cruise ships around the world, photographing not only the vessels but the excursion experiences and local food as well. This work has taken him around the world to Egypt, Senegal, Peru, Spain, Portugal, Costa Rica, Panama, Vietnam, Myanmar (Burma), Greece, Malta, Sicily, Botswana, India, and Oman.

Paul is also a lead photographer and, along with his wife, a writer for Cabo Living Magazine. Their articles showcase and celebrate people and places throughout the Baja Peninsula with that same sensitive approach and signature style. You can see their work here.

When not traveling and writing, Paul, his wife, and their nutty dog Cooper can be found curled up on the sofa watching foreign language thrillers on Netflix. Eating popcorn.

Professor Joan Waugh of the UCLA History Department researches and writes about nineteenth-century America, specializing in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age eras. Waugh has published numerous essays and books on Civil War topics, both single authored and edited, including her prize-winning U. S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth, (University of North Carolina Press, 2009). Her most recent book (co-authored with Gary W. Gallagher), is entitled The American War: A History of the Civil War Era (State College, PA: Flip Learning,2015).  Her topic today will be, "Women and Urban Reform in the Gilded Age."