The book release party for STUART LUTZ’s oral history book, “The Last Leaf: Voices of History’s Last-Known Survivors,” will occur Friday, March 26th at 7:30 PM at Words Book Store in Maplewood. The Last Leaf contains nearly forty interviews with the final survivors or last eyewitnesses to historically important events. Chapters include the last Civil War widows, the final American World War I soldier, the last Iwo Jima flag raiser, the final living person to have flown with Amelia Earhart, the last pitcher to surrender a home run to Babe Ruth, the final Medal of Honor winner for heroic actions on Pearl Harbor Day, the last Houdini stagehand, the final employees of Thomas Edison and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and many, many more. For more information, including excerpts, book photographs and a trailer, please visit www.TheLastLeaf.com.