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Places in the Heart

Series begins September 13, 2010

The Carteret County Public Library proudly presents the latest in this popular book discussion series. Your insights are the focus of the sessions. Our guest humanities scholars act as guides, leading discussion about how the books inform and enrich our lives.

More than a Book Discussion Series...

     The Carteret County Public Library is one of 35 libraries nationwide to receive a Picturing America Programming Grant to conduct an imaginative and substantive humanities program utilizing the Picturing America images.
     The library’s program, “Places in the Heart”, is designed to explore the concept of place through an alliance of visual and literary arts involving images, film, literature, and photography. The program includes an exhibit of 12 of the Picturing America images; a new “Let’s Talk About It” series; a young adult Book Talk featuring the novel Taffy of Torpedo Junction by Nell Wise Wechter; and a display of the winning entries of the 2010 NC Seafood Festival Photography Contest that celebrates our own special region where we live and work.
     Titles in the LTAI series were chosen because in each there is a deep connection between the characters and their surroundings, between them and the places they call home. "Places in the Heart" essay and recommended reading list can be found here :
http://www.programminglibrarian.org/picturingamerica/sites/default/files/places-in-heart.pdf.

     Picturing America is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities conducted in cooperation with the American Library Association to bring significant works of American art into communities across the country. Carteret County Public Library was selected to receive the Picturing America collection of high-quality re-productions of American art.
     On Sunday, September 12, at 3 p.m., the library will host a reception launching an exhibit of 12 Picturing America images chosen for their association with the theme of place including, for example, “Looking Down Yosemite Valley” by Albert Bierstadt, “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” by Grant Wood, and “Selma-to-Montgomery March for Voting Rights” by James Karales.
     The exhibit will run September 12 - November 20. School groups are especially welcome.

1. Monday, September 13, 7 p.m.
Speaker: Sue Ross, PhD UNC-Chapel Hill


Empire Falls
By Richard Russo
This novel follows the story of Miles Roby in a fictional, small blue-collar town in Maine and the people, places, and the past surrounding him, as manager of the Empire Grill diner.


 

A River Runs Through It
Film Showings

Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 1 p.m.
Bogue Banks Public Library, Art Gallery

Thursday, September 16, 2010 1 p.m.
Carteret County Public Library, Program Room

Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 7 p.m.
Carteret County Public Library, Program Room

Thursday, September 23, 2010, 1 p.m.
Bogue Banks Public Library, Art Gallery

Saturday, September 25, 2010, 1 p.m.
Carteret County Public Library, Program Room

2. Monday, September 27, 7 p.m.
Speaker: Joe Gomez, PhD
North Carolina State University


A River Runs Through It
By Norman Maclean

This work concerns the Macleans, a Presbyterian family during early 20th century Montana whose opinions of life are filtered through their passion for fly fishing. The evening’s discussion will consider the relationship between film and literature as it relates to Maclean’s novel.

 

 

 

4. Monday, November 1, 7 p.m.
Speaker: Bill DiNome, MFA
UNC-Wilmington


Brothers and Keepers
By John Edgar Wideman

This personal and artistic work explores how the same Pittsburgh family and childhood neighborhoods produced two brothers with such divergent lives.

 

3. Monday, October 11, 7 p.m.
Speaker: Louise Taylor, PhD
Meredith College


Gilead
By Marilynn Robinson

This novel is the fictional autobiography of the Reverend John Ames, an elderly Congregationalist pastor in the small, secluded town of Gilead, Iowa, who knows that he is dying of a heart condition.

 

 

 

5. Monday, November 15, 7 p.m.
Speaker: Nan Miller, MA
Meredith College


Plainsong
By Kent Haruf

Set in the fictional town of Holt, Colorado, this novel tells the interlocking stories of some of the inhabitants.

 

North Carolina Humanities Council

"Let's Talk About It!" is made possible by a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, in partnership with the North Carolina Center for the Book, a program of the State Library of North Carolina.
Refreshments courtesy of Friends of Carteret County Public Library.

Friends of Carteret County Public Library

"Many Stories, One People"

*Picturing America is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, distributed in cooperation with the American Library Association. The Institute of Museum and Library Services has provided major support for Picturing America programs in public libraries.

Past “Let’s Talk About It” Series

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