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General Information and Past Events
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North
Reading Reads 2012 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, 7PM
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A Taste of Home: Connecting with Food, Music, and Friends
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| Feb. 29, 10AM-12PM
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Book Discussion, North Reading
Book Discussion Club
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| March 6, 7PM
| Tuesday
| Book Discussion, Evening Book Group, Friends of the Library
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| March 13, 7PM
| Tuesday
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Starting a Vegetable Garden,
presented by Hugo Wiberg
Registration is requested. Please call 978-664-4942 to register.
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| March 15, 3PM
| Thursday
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Karen Vitale and Nancy Parsons:A conversation about Karen's young adult novel, My Grandmother Talks to Herself in the Mirror (but it's no reflection on me)
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| March 22, 4PM
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Seeds, Seeds, Seeds, Planting for Spring, for children 3-6
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March 27, 3:30 PM
| Tuesday
| Fabulous Bouquets, for ages 10 and up
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| March 27, 7PM
| Tuesday
| Food and Community: The Farm, the Garden, the Table, a panel discussion |
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Further Suggested Reading and Viewing
Non-Fiction:
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollen
No Impact Man, Colin Beavan
The Feast Nearby, Robin Mather
The Town that Food Saved, Ben Hewitt
Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology,Sarah McFarland Taylor
Make the Bread, Buy the Butter, Jennifer Reese
Barnheart: the incurable longing for a farm of one's own, Jenna Woginrich
Sleeping Naked is Green Vanessa Farquharson
Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet Alice Smith and J.B. MacKinnon
Fiction:
O Pioneers! Willa Cather
Leaving the Land, Douglas Unger
Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
The Lives of Girls and Women, Alice Munro
Winter Wheat, Mildred Walker
Film:
No Impact Man
Supersize Me
Food, Inc.
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Exhibits
Photographs of Fruits and Vegetables by Joan McCandlish
Reading-North Reading Chamber of Commerce Buy Local Display
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Websites and Blogs of Interest
Just Another Day on the Farm
The Local Cook
The Lovely Locavore Ladies of Boston
The Burdock & Rose Daily
Local Harvest
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NORTH
READING READS 2012 ORGANIZERS & SPONSORS
- Thank you to Steve DiFranza for
designing the North Reading Reads logo. Thank you to Kim Smith, North Reading High School Librarian, Irene Collins, Executive Director, Reading North Reading Chamber of Commerce,
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