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General Information and Past Events
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North
Reading Reads 2011 Events and Exhibits
Events will take place in the Flint Memorial Library
Activity Room,
unless otherwise noted.
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Event
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| Feb. 23, 1:30PM
| Wednesday |
Movie, Little Women
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| Feb. 23, 10AM
| Wednesday
| Book Discussion, North Reading
Book Discussion Club
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| March 1, 7PM
| Tuesday
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Book Discussion, Evening Book Group, Friends of the Library
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| March 3, 7PM
| Thursday
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Lawrence Memorial Civil War Guard-- Massachusetts in the Civil War.
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| March 5, 1:30PM
| Saturday
| Movie, Glory |
| March 17, 7PM
| Thursday
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A Visit with President Abraham Lincoln, presented by Steve Wood |
March 31, 7PM
| Thursday
| Songs and Poems of the Civil War
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Further Suggested Reading and Viewing
Fiction:
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
The Killer Angels , Michael Shaara
Coal Black Horse, Robert Olstead
Walking to Gaitlinburg, Howard Frank Mosher
Property, Valerie Martin
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War, Karl Marlantes
NonFiction:
Battle Cry of Freedom: the era of the Civil War, James M. McPherson
Hallowed Ground: a Walk at Gettysburg, James M. McPherson
Mr. Lincoln's Army, Bruce Catton
The Sketches of Louisa May Alcott
Film and Television:
The Civil War, Ken Burns
Gettysburg
Ride with the Devil
Glory
Little Women
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Music of the Civil War
North Reading is proud to claim composer George F. Root, as one of its important residents. He moved to town when he was six. Root wrote the first song of the Civil War, "The First Gun is Fired," after hearing about the Battle of Fort Sumter. He lived at Willow Farm, in North Reading. One of his most famous Civil War songs is "Battle Cry of Freedom."
Here is a blog post from the North Reading Historical and Antiquarian Society
with further information about George Root.
You can listen here to some selections of Civil War songs.
The Lawrence Civil War Memorial Guard
gave a presentation about the local members of
the Union Army.
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Websites of Interest
The American Civil War Home Page
The Civil War Home Page
Civil War@Smithsonian, produced by the National Portrait Gallery
Civil War Preservation Trust, Saving America's Civil War Battlefields
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Children's Title
Children are invited to read Rodman Philbrick's 2010 Newbery Honor Book,
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg.
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NORTH
READING READS 2011 ORGANIZERS & SPONSORS
- Thank you to Steve DiFranza for
designing the North Reading Reads logo. Thank you to Ruth Clark for her help with arranging to have music performed by North Reading students at the library.
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