Barbara Jones Clark-- Storyteller

Savoring African American History through Stories and Poetry

Summary:
Take a story walk through the eyes and feelings of African Americans from slavery to the mid-seventies. Using award-winning literature via stories and poetry, the audience will experience plantation life and escape, life view of a 110-year-old supercentenarian, living with Jim Crow during a motor trip down south, death of Emmitt Till poetically immortalized, feelings of interracial children (Black and Jewish) during the '70s and some experiences of outstanding African Americans (George Washington Carver, Gordon Parks and Mary McCloud Bethune). Program contents can vary to suit the audience.

Sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council Speakers Beureau; the program is FREE and OPEN to the public.

This is part of the "Created Equal: Civil Rights Struggle" programing of the Columbus Lowndes Public Library.

Barbara Jones Clark Website

January 14, 2015

The Big Read

We and our project partners are excited to invite our community to join in "The Big Read" kicking off this month and continuing into March. Our focus book, Thornton Wilder's "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" is a great American classic
which won Wilder his first Pulitzer Prize in 1928. Since it's first printing in 1927, the book has NEVER been out of print! The story is well written, immersing us into Peruvian culture and creating fascinating character studies--all in a fairly short read.
For more information follow this link
"The Big Read" is a grant program established by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
in 2006 in response to studies reflecting the sad rapid decline of reading in America.
The program was developed to provide organizations with the means to develop community
wide reading programs. Through the focus on one book, we can encourage community
reading, discussion and participation amongst diverse audiences. From this we can all
come together to learn about the worlds encompassed in one story, and hopefully encourage
a renewed interest in reading.

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