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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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2 comments:
My father was one of 10 children and I was one of 5. My siblings and I have heard many stories about growing up in the "old days". It is hard to appreciate just how tough life was 250 years ago. Even the stories told by my father of life during the great depression do not compare to the life that Mooney, Lorry and the others lived.
My grandmother was born in 1898 and raised seven children. I love to hear my mother talking about the life they had. It was hard but they were happy. They were poor, but rich in other ways.
I think that is true about the characters in this book too. It was very hard to live in the mountains 250 yrs ago, but the people that moved there were very brave and very strong and they had a very strong will to survive and make the mountains their home. I think nowdays we have lost a lot of the courage that it took in those days.
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