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Penn State Altoona kicks off Free University Series with Beatlemania

ALTOONA – Become a groupie for the night with the Teaching and Learning Consortium's first event of the academic year on Friday, October 16, 2009 at 7 p.m. in the Devorris Downtown Center.

Kenneth Womack, interim dean for Academic Affairs at Penn State Altoona, will take you down the long and winding road of Beatles history, tracing the band from its heyday as recording artists between 1962 and 1969. Womack will talk about successes, struggles, myths surrounding the group, and of course, their music, from the first album Please Please Me - recorded in a single day - to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the White Album, and Abbey Road-albums that collectively required thousands of hours to produce.

Womack has published widely on twentieth-century literary and popular culture. His most recent book is "Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles." He also edited the anthologies "Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four" and "The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles."

The free series strives to create an open forum that encourages the discussion of ideas on a broad range of topics. For more information, visit www.altoona.psu.edu/tlc online.