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 The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest.

 

Here are the current programs being planned. More will follow.

March 1: 1:30pm Masonic Lodge, 46 South Washington St. 
Listen to the Mockingbird: Songs, dance and history of the 1930s as it relates to To Kill a Mockingbird. Featuring Bay State Ramblers (Chuck Durang, Dick Custer and Pam Powell) and dancers from the Stars of Tomorrow. Refreshments are courtesy of Starbucks Coffee of Emerald Square.

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Bay State Ramblers led us in song. Everyone was in great voice.
The Stars of Tomorrow dancers 
were full of enthusiasm, including 
owner Jan Meglio (lower right.)
March 4: 4pm at the library
Make a memory box to hold your "treasures." For children ages 7 to 8. Registration required. In the movie, Jem has a special box to keep the treasures he finds in the tree. Check out this Youtube clip of the opening sequence to see what we mean. 
March 6: 4pm at the library
Birds, birds, birds: for children ages 5 to 6. Learn about birds with Miss Kit. Registration required.
 
March 6: 7:30pm at the library
Book Discussion of Charles Shields’ biography of Nelle Harper Lee, Mockingbird.
 
March 11: 1:30pm at the library
Book Discussion of Charles Shields’ biography of Nelle Harper Lee, Mockingbird.
 
March 11: 7:30pm at North Attleboro Middle School Auditorium
Charles Shields talks about Nelle Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird.  
Sun Chronicle article about talk.
 
March 15: 1:30pm at the library
Showing of the movie, To Kill a Mockingbird.
 
March 19: 7pm at the library
Parent/child book discussion of Loretta Ellsworth’s book, In Search of Mockingbird. For children in grades 5-8 and a parent. Registration required.
 
March 24: 10am at the library
Mini-book discussion of To Kill a Mockingbird for parents of children in the storytime.
 
March 25: 1:30pm and 7:30pm at the library
Book discussion of To Kill a Mockingbird.
 
March 27 at 7pm at the library
Showing of the movie, To Kill a Mockingbird.

 

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