The Big Read events to be held

Published: Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 14, 2008 at 5:30 p.m.

WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA -- The following programs will be presented in Western North Carolina as part of the Big Read program:

  • 2:30 p.m. today -- My Antonia. Actress Barbara Bates Smith will present a telling of My Antonia for deaf and hearing audiences at the Reuter Center, University of North Carolina at Asheville.

  • For more information, call 505-1973.

  • 7 p.m. Tuesday -- "Willa Cather Country at Haywood County Public Library, 678 Haywood St., Waynesville. Phyllis Lang, UNCA professor and Plains native, will present an evening of her illustrated talk on the setting of My Antonia.

    For more information, call 452-5169.

  • 7 p.m. Friday -- "We All Come from Sommers Else: Immigration Stories Made Real, at the Carolina Theatre in Spruce Pine. Gloria Houston, author of The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree and Littlejim with Angie Holtzclaw, Mitchell County Middle School drama teacher, will direct students in "creative dramatics performances of Littlejim and My Antonia. Houston will also give a keynote talk.

    For more information, call 766-5525.

  • 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 25 -- Book discussion of My Antonia at McDowell County Public Library, 90 W. Court St., Marion.

    For more information, call 652-3858.

  • 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 26 -- Book discussion of My Antonia at Polk County Library, 1289 W. Mills St., Columbus.

    For more information, call 894-8721.

    These events are part of the Big Read, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest.

    For more information, visit www.togetherweread.org.

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