Program about Scarsdale's Own Monuments Man at the Scarsdale Library

What is actor/comedian Bill Murray's connection to Scarsdale? His character in the recent movie "The Monument's Men" was based on Robert Kelley Posey, a former Scarsdale resident, who as part of the Monuments Men group tracked down thousands of works of art looted by the Nazis. Posey's biggest discovery was the Ghent Altarpiece, also known as the "Adoration of the Lamb" the magnificent 15-Century Flemish masterpiece by the brothers Hubert and Jan Van Eyck.

On Tuesday, November 25, at 7:00 p.m., Paul Harris, Ph.D., an associate professor of political science at Auburn University in Alabama will discuss this fascinating Scarsdalian at the Scarsdale Public Library.

Harris specializes in post-war Germany and is currently working on a book on the U.S. Army Occupation of Germany between 1945-1949, Posey, an architect, was born in Morris, Alabama, in 1904 and moved to the New York area in 1929, eventually settling in Scarsdale in a house he designed on Black Birch Lane. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army Reserves and entered active service in War World II. He was hand-picked to serve as a Monuments Man for General George Patton's Third Army.