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EVENT SPEAKER
Bud Boccone
Bud Boccone, a native and resident of Brooklyn, New York, is an editor-writer-illustrator for AKC
Publications. His work has won several honors from the Dog Writers Association of America, including
the 2007 “Best Column” award for his “ACE Files” stories in AKC Family Dog. In previous lives Bud was
a writer-illustrator for Baseball America and Theater Week magazines, and was twice honored by the
Manhattan Association of Cabarets for excellence in comedy writing and directing.
On Wednesday, October 15th, Buccone will be presenting Wonder Dogs: Canine fame and the birth of
America’s celebrity culture. “Wonder Dogs” is a lively review of the dog’s role in 20th century
American popular culture. From Nixon and Checkers, to Dorothy and Toto, to Steinbeck and Charley,
dogs have been an integral part of how pop culture reflects who we are and what we believe.
For ten years Bud Boccone has utilized the vast resources of the American Kennel Club—especially
its incomparable library, art collection, and photo archives—to study America’s fascination with
dogs and how it was exploited, for good or ill, in Hollywood, Washington, and New York during the
hundred years known as the “American Century.”
In “Wonder Dogs” Bud presents a brief survey of his findings spiced with the irreverent humor that,
on more than one occasion, has caused the AKC librarian to tell him to pipe down. “Wonder Dogs”
will feature a slide show of rare images from the AKC collection.
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