Starkville Reads

Reading Together for a Better Starkville

Basesball in books, movies, and other events!
Read the One Book, One Community book The Natural by Bernard Malamud
Spring Program Complete Schedule --2008

March 3

Family Night at the Library.

Meet the Mississippi State Bulldogs

as they read to your children!

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Tuesday, March 18: James Carothers, Ph.D discusses The Natural and more.

Baseball expert Dr. Carothers from the University of Kansas will discuss the novel The Natural and Baseball in American Literature. He was the recipient of the Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence in 2001.

Starkville Public Library
7:00 PM

Dr. Carothers will also speak to Honors Forum on March 18 at 12:30 in Griffis Hall, Room 401

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Wednesday morning, March 19: Cool Papa Bell Program-- sponsored by the Oktibbeha County Heritage Museum and the Our Community Series. Brother Rogers speaks. Event will be at the Starkville Public Library at 9:30 AM.
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Tuesday, March 25 at 3:00 PM

Clyde Williams leads a discussion of The Natural at the Book Mart on Main Street.
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April Attractions

Tues. April 1 - Time TBA Cool Papa Bell event at Ebeneezer Church. Details soon!

Wed. April 2 Mike Couvillion leads a discussion of The Natural in the Left Field Lounge at 5 PM

Tue., April 8: The film The Natural starring Robert Redford at 4:00 PM at the Starkville Public Library

POSTPONED: The film Pride of the Yankees starring Gary Cooper at 3 PM at the Starkville Public Library. Details to be announced.

Commentary provided by Clyde Williams for the above two films.

Fri., April 25 - The movie Field of Dreams will be shown outside on the grounds of Armstrong Middle School at dusk. _________________________________________________________________________

PAST STARKVILLE READS PROGRAMS

- See Starkville Reads in the 2007 Christmas parade!
- Click here to see complete list of events for recent Mystery in Mississippi FALL program
- Fourth series: Mystery in Mississippi 2007 Fall Program--Carolyn Haines appeared AUGUST 8. Read about her and her books here.
- Third Series of Programs (Spring 2007) See completed Big Read Calendar of Events for To Kill a Mockingbird sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read.
- Read about the second series author (Fall 2006) and book The Black Flower by Mississippi writer Howard Bahr. This program was sponsored in part by the Mississippi Humanities Council.
- Read about the first book The Return of Gabriel (Spring 2006) and its Mississippi writer John Armistead here..

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Starkville Reads

P. O. Box 80100

Starkville, MS 39759

Web Page by Nancy N. Jacobs
April 10, 2008

Contributors
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Bebe Freeman Fund

Starkville Reads Advisory Board

Mississippi Writers and Musicians Home Page

Center for the Book Library of Congress

ALA Community Read Planning Guide

Seattle Public Library's Book Discussion
How to

Starkville Public Library

NEA Big Read

Mis sissippi Mystery Writers

How to Plan a Community Reading Event from Harper Collins