<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000099"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal" data-mce-style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma" data-mce-style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">SPECIAL PEANUT BUTTER CLUB PRESENTATION AT WHOI:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma" data-mce-style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma" data-mce-style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Presents author Steve Kurkjian who will discuss his new book “Master Thieves<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" data-mce-style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">”</span> on Friday, July 17, at noon in Redfield Auditorium, 45 Water St., Woods Hole. It is a case defined by superlatives - the largest art theft in history, carrying the world’s largest reward offer, longer on the FBI’s list of biggest unsolved art crimes than any other save one. Two men disguised as Boston Police officers trick their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum after midnight, tie up the two night watchmen and make off with an estimated half billion dollars worth of artwork including three works by Rembrandt and a Vermeer masterpiece. Now 25 years after the theft, Stephen Kurkjian who was the principal reporter on the case for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal" data-mce-style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Boston Globe</i> for years, has written a gripping account of the still-unsolved heist of a quarter century ago. In “Master Thieves,<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" data-mce-style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">”</span> Kurkjian reveals how the two criminal gangs battling for control of the Boston under-world knew of the museum’s poor security and that one had a motive to pull off the theft - to fashion an exchange that would result in the release of its leader from federal prison.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" data-mce-style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Books will be for sale after the talk. Sponsored by the WHOI Information Office. Coffee, tea, and cookies served. Donations accepted<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal" data-mce-style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">.</b></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times" data-mce-style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times;"></span></p></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>