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April, 2009

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Event:

To Kill a Mockingbird Book Discussion

Date:

April 7th, 2009.

Time:

7:00 PM

Location:

Windsor Public Library

Contact:

Leanne Costello

As part of the Hartford area Big Read, Windsor Public Library will host two special programs on To Kill a Mockingbird, the classic coming of age novel by Harper Lee. Tuesday, April 7 at 7pm local scholar/teachers, Maureen Mazzaccaro and Gail Socha will lead a discussion of the novel.

A week later on Tuesday, April 14, at 7pm, the library will host a special showing of the 1962 movie starring Gregory Peck. Copies of the book are available for loan at Windsor Public Library. Call the library reference desk at 285-1918 to register for either program, or for more information.

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is the rare American novel that can be discovered with excitement in adolescence and then reread into adulthood without fear of disappointment. Few novels so appealingly evoke the daily world of childhood in a way that seems convincing whether you are sixteen or sixty-six. Lee tells two deftly painted stories set in a small Southern town: one focused on lawyer Atticus Finch's defense of an unjustly accused man, the other on the children; Jem, Scout and Dill as they discover the presence and nature of both good and evil in their lives and in the community around them.

The 1962 film version of the novel is one of the very rare "book to movie" creations that completely conveys the story and intent of the author. The casting was superb and the musical score haunting. Gregory Peck won the best actor Oscar for his portrayal of Atticus Finch and the character of Atticus in the movie has been deemed the #1 greatest hero of American film by the American Film Institute. In all, the movie won 3 Academy Awards, 3 Golden Globes and is part of the Library of Congress' National Film Registry.

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to revitalize the role of literary reading in American popular culture. 22 public libraries in the Hartford area will be hosting a variety of "To Kill a Mockingbird" programs throughout the next few months. A complete calendar of events is located online at http://www.hplct.org/bigread/

Windsor Public Library programs are co-sponsored by the Windsor Library Association. Windsor Public Library, 323 Broad Street, Windsor, CT, 860-285-1918.

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