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2008 CALENDAR OF EVENTS AND PROGRAMS
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Dates
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Program Title |
Sponsor/Location |
County |
Project Director |
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Coming Fall 2008! |
Carolinian Immigrants: Historical and Literary Perspectives |
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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Guilford |
Andreas Lixl |
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Fall and Winter |
Western, NC |
Rob Neufeld |
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2-Sep to 30-Nov |
Gaston |
Carol K. Reinhart |
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Sep 15 to Nov 30 |
Emmett Till Exhibit |
Nash |
John Thornell |
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Oct 23 - Nov |
Fault Lines: Earth Movers and Shakers |
Wake |
Joan Nicholas-Walker |
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12-13 Dec |
The Legend of Nance Dude |
Haywood Arts Regional Theatre and Haywood Community ConnectionsPerforming Arts Center at the Shelton House
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Haywood |
Steven Lloyd |
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Jan - April |
Catawba |
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Jan 1 - June 30 |
Korea and America: Intersections of Culture Humanities Programming |
Forsyth |
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Jan 11-19 |
Mecklenburg |
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Jan 18 - Mar 1 |
Moore |
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Jan 20 - Feb 27 |
Pitt |
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Feb 19-21 |
Guilford |
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March |
Haliwa Indian School Documentation Phase I. |
Halifax |
Marty Richardon |
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April 30 - May 3 |
Buncombe |
Laura Hope Gill |
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May 1-3 |
Piece Work |
Guilford |
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Dates |
Series Title and Works |
Location |
County |
Project Director |
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4-Sep 18-Sep 2-Oct 16-Oct 30-Oct |
The World Set Free, H.G. Wells Brave New World, Aldus Huxley I, Robot, Saac Asimov The Space Merchants, Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth Greenhouse Summer, Norman Spinrad |
Onslow |
Karen Moore |
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4-Sep 18-Seop 2-Oct 16-Oct 30-Oct |
Divergent Cultures: the Middle East in Literature Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini Palace Walk, Naguib Mahfouz A Perfect Peace, Amos Oz Nine Parts of Desire, Geraldine Brooks |
Nash |
Martha Lee |
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2-Sep 16-Sep 30-Oct 14-Oct 28-Nov |
How Folklife Crafts Our Literature, Lives and Communities Somerset Homecoming, Dorothy Spruill Redford A Tree Accurst, Daniel W. Patterson Nowhere Else on Earth, Josephine Humphreys Uncommon Clay, Margaret Maron From Cambodia to Greensboro, Barbara Lau |
Edgecombe |
Ann Adams |
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22-Sep 6-Oct 20-Oct 3-Nov 17-Nov |
Law and Literature: The Eva Rubin Series Billy Budd, Herman Melville Pudd'nhead Wilson, Mark Twain A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson Emperor of Ocean Park, Stephen L. Carter |
Carteret |
Susan Simpson |
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15-Sep 29-Sep 13-Oct 27-Oct 10-Nov |
Discovering the Literary South: Gap Creek, Robert Morgan A Virtuous Woman, Kaye Gibbons The Jew Store, Stella Suberman Clover, Dori Sanders The Coal Tattoo, Silas House |
Madison |
Megan Adams |
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16-Oct 30-Oct 13-Nov 4-Dec 18-Dec |
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles The End of the Affair, Graham Greene Morgan's Passing, Anne Tyler A Morther & Two Daughters, Gail Godwin |
Hyde |
Ingeborg Frye |
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8- Sep 22-Sep 6-Oct 20-Oct 3-Nov |
How Folklife Crafts Our Literature, Lives, and Communities Somerset Homecoming, Dorothy Spruill Redford A Tree Accurst, Daniel W. Patterson Nowhere Else on Earth, Josephine Humphreys Uncommon Clay, Margaret Maron From Cambodia to Greensboro, Barbara Lau |
Craven |
Joanne Straight |
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15-Sep 29-Sep 13-Oct 27-Oct 10-Nov
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Divergent Cultures: The Middle East in Literature Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini Palace Walk, Naguib Mahfouz A Perfect Peace, Amos Oz Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time, Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, Geraldine Brooks
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Alamance |
Dawn Michelle Oliver |
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8-Sep 22-Sep 6-Oct 20-Oct 3-Nov |
The Memory of Old Jack, Wendell Berry Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters' First Hundred Years, Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delaney and Amy Hill Hearth Water for Elephants, Sarah Gruen The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner
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Caswell |
Sally Stephens |
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Dates |
Program Title
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Location
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Scholars |
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24-25 October |
Charlotte
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Dr. Magdalena Maiz-Peña, Davidson; Dr. Sally Peterson, NC Arts Council; Ms. Anne Sutton, Union County Schools |
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Start Date |
Time |
Scholar / Title | Sponsor / Location | County |
Project Director |
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| 3-Dec | 11:30 AM | Daughters of the American Revolution/Hill House |
Durham | Fran Ferrell | ||
| 4-Dec | 10 AM | Wake | Margaret Bishop | |||
| 4-Dec | 12:00 PM | Raleigh Civitan Club/Clarion Hotel State Capitol |
Wake | Allen Burris | ||
| 4-Dec | 6:00 PM | Wilkes | Jordan Welborn | |||
| 6-Dec | 12:00 PM | Randell Jones: Scoundrels, Rogues, and Heroes of the Old North State |
McDowell | Anne Swann | ||
| 8-Dec | 7:00 PM | Kevin Duffus: Blackbeard! |
Currituck | Barbara Snowden | ||
| 9-Dec | 12:30 PM | Billy Stevens: Discovering Elvis |
New Hanover | Joe Owen | ||
| 9-Dec | 7:00 PM | Wake | Katrina Vernon | |||
| 16-Dec | 6:00 PM | Kevin Duffus: The Last Days of Blackbeard the Pirate |
Cleveland | Margot Plonk | ||
| January | ||||||
| 8-Jan | 11:30 AM | Historical Society of Topsail Island/ Topsail Beach Assembly Bldg. |
Pender | Judy Groff | ||
| 10-Jan | 2:00 PM | Margaret Hoffman: Blackbeard |
Currituck | Vicky Hagemeister | ||
| 10-Jan | 7:30 PM | Margaret Hoffman: Blackbeard |
Currituck | Kathleen Burns | ||
| 11-Jan | 3:00 PM | Carteret | Susan Simpson | |||
| 20-Jan | 11:00 AM | Lucinda MacKethan: Gone with the Wind |
O'Henry Study Club/ |
Davidson | Teen Timberlake | |
| 22-Jan | 12:00 PM | Davie | Scott Gantt | |||
| 23-Jan | 2:00 PM | Davidson | Blair Lennox | |||
| 25-Jan | 3:00 PM | Kevin Duffus: The Last Days of Blackbeard the Pirate |
Union | Jill Peth | ||
| 28-Jan | 12:00 PM | Fasih Ahmed: Interactions of Islam with Political, Social, and Economic Systems |
Guilford | Kristi Short | ||