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Forsyth County Public Library's 5th Annual Community Reading Program
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Friday, October 13th 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
The American Landscape: an Exhibit and Reception with John Ehle and Local Arts Community Land Breakers The American Landscape is a national jurored competition and exhibition of visual art about artists' perceptions of the landscape of America.Associated Artists Gallery
Saturday, October 14th at 6:00 p.m. Dress rehearsal for "Page to Stage," the culminating event for "On the Same Page " North Carolina School of the Arts, The Thrust, Performance Place This program is free and tickets are not required.
Sunday, October 15th at 7:00 p.m. CULMINATING EVENT - Page to Stage: A Staged Reading of The Land Breakers North Carolina School of the Arts, The Thrust, Performance Place (A free, ticketed event. Call the Stevens Center at 336-723-6320 or the N.C. School of the Arts ticket office to reserve a ticket.)
CONGRATULATIONS!
Greystone Place Gals Book Club--Winners of 10 copies of "The Landbreakers" from a contest run by Press 53,publishers of the rereleased edition of the book.
LET'S TALK ABOUT IT!
The Land Breakers is likely to spark discussion on basic human survival, the power of nature, labor and work ethic, relationships of family and community, mountain culture, immigration (Scots-Irish and German), slavery, poverty and isolation.
READING KICKOFF!
More than 500 Forsyth County Readers joined us for The Kick Off of the 5th Annual "On the Same Page" Communisty Reading program. More book discussions and events are taking place to encourage Community Reading.
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3 comments:
The worst part would be wearing the same old dirty clothes and not having a bathroom.
Yes, no clean clothes, no hot bath but maybe once a year, that would be very hard. Also all the work put in to a simple meal, trying to protect crops and stock, an all consuming job which is shown in the book.
Working beyond the point of exhaustion every day, day in and day out, is difficult to imagine. I've gone eight days without a shower on a camping trip and that was enough for me. That shower felt so good.
Also, fear of predators--animal and human--might have really bothered me although they were used to living closer to the earth. I can totally understand being driven insane from a room full of snakes.
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