Reading Progressively Book Club Meeting
The monthly book club meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, August 17th at 7 PM in the coffeeshop at Barnes and Noble Bookstore in Hingham (Exit 15 - formerly Bldg. 19 location). This month's discussion is about What's the Matter With Kansas by Thomas Franks. It focuses on why the formerly Democratic Kansas turned into a solidly Republican state and why the people there continually vote against their own self interest because of wedge issues. All are invited and please bring ideas for books to discuss at future club meetings.
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If you have any titles you are interested in discussing but can't make the August meeting, feel free to post them here under comments.
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I wish we could all go to a vigil for Cindy tonight also.
There is one in Hingham and Cohasset.
Okay Janet, I am going to attempt to post photos from last night's vigil.
They came out beautiful - hopefully this works
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Susan
Our next book for the Sept. 21st meeting will be Howard Zinn's People's History of the U.S.
Leave your suggestions for future reading here under "Comments."
Book Recommendations
John Winthrop: America’s Forgotten Founding Father, Francis J. Bremer, Oxford University Press, NY, 2003. John Winthrop founded Boston, MA. This book gives a clear picture of John Winthrop’s life and times in England before he emigrated as well as insight into the foundation of self-government in America. Interesting facts show up. For example, John Winthrop’s son put a wind mill on the hill where Copp’s burial ground is. Also, in 1643, Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven formed the United Colonies of New England.
1776, David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, NY, 2005. The year 1776 starts with the American army’s winter encampment around Boston. Henry Knox came up with idea of bringing down the cannons from Fort Ticonderoga. So Knox and his brother set out to get the cannons. When the cannons arrived, the Americans figured out a brilliant way to surprise the British.
I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories, Sam Swope, Henry Holt & Co., NY, 2004. Swope visited an ethnically diverse classroom in New York for one day and ended up working with the students from third to fifth grade. How the children learned to see the world and how they put their thoughts into words are an inspiration.
Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond, Essie Mae Washington-Williams and William Stadiem, HarperCollins, NY, 2005. A personal story with a unique first-hand view of the evolution of American race relations, southern politics, and our current national government.
Business Under Fire: How Israeli Companies are Succeeding in the Face of Terror—and What We Can Learn from Them, Dan Carrison, Amacom, NY, 2005. I picked this book up to learn how people live with terrorism. What I found was experiences of being successful in the face of the unknown. Could some of these ideas help our government and businesses encourage peace and adapt in the face of oil shortages and climate crises?
Divine Interventions: True Stories of Mystery and Miracles that Change Lives, Dan Millman and Doug Childers, Rodale, Emmaus, PA, 1999. Fifty true stories, from past and present, about people from diverse religious and non-religious backgrounds, that make me aware that we can tap into the greater reality to do amazing things. Love, and only love, prevails.
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