US CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS' MEMOIR TO BE DISCUSSED – MAY 21

Challenge your perspectives with Dr. Sandra Sandiford Young as she leads an inter-generational discussion of the graphic memoir March: Book One by U.S. Congressman and Civil Rights Leader John Lewis on Tuesday, May 21 at 6 p.m. at the Rockingham Library.

March: Book One (the first in a trilogy) tells of Lewis' childhood in rural Alabama, his desire as a young man to be a preacher, his life-changing interactions with Martin Luther King, Jr. and the nonviolent sit-ins he joined at lunch counters in Nashville as a means of undermining segregation.

The Vermont Humanities Council has chosen this title for its 2019 Vermont Reads Statewide One-Book Community Reading Program. The Rockingham Library, in collaboration with Parks Place, has distributed over 60 copies of this title throughout the community in hopes that each copy will be read and passed on to a friend or relative. Now it's time for the community to come together to discuss what they've read. There are a few copies of March: Book One available at the Library's front desk along with Night on Fire by Ronald Kidd for grades 4-8.

Discussion facilitator Dr. Young is a former Associate Director of Boston College's African and African Diaspora Studies Program and Adjunct Professor at Boston College. As a community activist, Dr. Young served on the Parent Advisory Board for the METCO Program, a grant program to increase educational opportunities, increase diversity, and reduce racial isolation in metropolitan Boston; and served for 8 years as President of the Garrison-Trotter Neighborhood Association one of the largest neighborhood associations in Boston. For more information, email programming@rockinghamlibrary.org, call 802.463.4270, or stop by the Library at 65 Westminster St. in Bellows Falls.

Legislators at the Library

Dec 21, 2024, 10:30 AM

Long River CircleSinging in Putney VT

Dec 22, 2024, 3 to 5 PM

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

Dec 24, 2024, 6 AM to 7 PM