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Peninsula
Library System (PLS) won a competitive grant from the
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to participate
in NEA's "The Big Read" - a
month-long community reading event designed to restore
literary reading to the center of American culture. (http://www.neabigread.org)
THE
NEA allowed applicants to choose from eight
classic novels around which it would build its month-long
literary celebration. PLS chose To Kill a Mockingbird.
In
April 2007, please join PLS in reading, and for
many of you rediscovering, this brilliant book by Harper
Lee set in the fictional Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama,
during the Depression. To Kill a Mockingbird is the story
of a black man accused of raping a white girl; the white
attorney, Atticus Finch, assigned to defend him; his
young children Jem and Scout; and the issues of race,
class, generations, justice and growing up that arise
during the legal proceedings.
Highlights
of the month-long program include screenings of the 1962
movie To Kill a Mockingbird, book discussions, children's
art programs, live theater, author presentations, a legal-defense
forum and the involvement of local restaurants and music
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