Oil program rescheduled to Oct. 29

NORTH ENGLISH — Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Sept. 24 program at the English Valleys History Center was rescheduled to Sunday, Oct. 29, at 2 p.m. At that time, Dr. Tyler Priest will be presenting “The United States of Oil.”

Priest is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa. He is a widely published scholar of energy and environmental history, with expertise in the history of oil and gas.

Priest is the author of the award-winning book “The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil’s Search for Petroleum in the Postwar United States” and a forthcoming book called “Oceans of Oil: The Epic Struggles Over Offshore Drilling in the United States.”

In 2010, Priest served as a senior policy analyst on the President’s National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.

English Valleys History Center is located at 108 N. Main in North English.