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Places in the Heart |
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Series
begins September 13, 2010 |
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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. |
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More than a Book Discussion
Series... |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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A River Runs Through It
Film Showings |
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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. |
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"Many Stories, One People" |
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*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. |
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“Let’s Talk About It” Series |
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