Programs & Events
10th Annual Reading Across Rhode Island
May Breakfast with Author Geraldine Brooks
Saturday, May 5, 2012
9am – 12pm
Rhodes on the Pawtuxet, Cranston, RI
Registration Guide: Click here to download the registration form for Reading Across Rhode Island 2012.
Resource Guide: Download a list of accompanying resources, including additional reading recommendations and student response suggestions, by clicking this link.
Join Co-Chairs Gale Eaton, Director of the URI Graduate School of Library and Information Studies and Robin Kall of Reading with Robin, as well as hundreds of Rhode Islanders as we celebrate the 10th year of Reading Across Rhode Island!
Enjoy breakfast, browse books for sale, bid on penny social items and hear Pulitzer Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks speak about the 2012 Reading Across Rhode Island book Caleb's Crossing. The author will also be available for book signing after the event.
Tickets are $30 for members of the RI Center for the Book and $40 for non-members. The $40 ticket price includes a one-year membership to the RI Center for the Book, as well as all the benefits of a Membership. Learn more about Membership Benefits here.
Click here to download the registration form for Reading Across Rhode Island 2012.
For more information, contact RI Center for the Book at sheala@rihumanities.org or (401) 273-2250.
Our thanks to our event sponsors: NewportFed, Penguin Books, and Reading with Robin!
Journey With Caleb's Crossing
Join Rhode Island Center for the Book for a series of programs related to the 2012 selection Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks!
Monday, March 12 at 7:00pm at the Peace Dale Public Library
The Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native American Cultures, a presentation by Linford Fisher, Assistant Professor of History at Brown University.
Tuesday, March 13 at 6:00pm at the Central Falls Public Library
Through a combination of storytelling, song and dance along with a craft of a very popular corn husk action figure, presenter Annawon Weeden, a Mashpee Wampanoag, brings the history and culture of the Wampanoags to a family audience.
Monday, March 26 at 7:00pm at the Newport Public Library
Educating Women in New England from the Colonial Era through the Early 19th Century, a presentation by Kathryn Tomasek, Assistant Professor of History at Wheaton College.
Monday, April 9 at 7:00pm at the Providence Public Library
Caleb's Crossing: Indian and English Gods in Early New England, a presentation by William Simmons, Professor of Anthropology at Brown University.
Monday, April 23 at 7:00pm at the Barrington Public Library
Discoveries from The Harvard Yard Dig with Christine Hodge, Senior Curatorial Assistant at the Peabody Museum of Harvard University. Hodge shares the discoveries of the Harvard Yard Archaeology Project, the history of the Harvard Indian College, and their intersections with Caleb’s Crossing.
Living Literature
Living Literature will perform selections from Caleb's Crossing at these locations:
North Kingstown Free Library
Wednesday, March 21, 6:30 pm
100 Boone St., North Kingstown, RI
Barrington Public Library
Monday, March 26, 7 pm
281 County Rd., Barrington, RI
Newport Public Library
Monday, April 9, 7 pm
300 Spring St., Newport, RI
Maury Loontjens Memorial Library
Thursday, April 12, 7 pm
35 Kingstown Rd. Narragansett, RI
Providence Public Library
Sunday, April 15, 2 pm
150 Empire St., Providence, RI
United Congregational Church
Sunday, April 22, 2pm
4 South of Commons Rd., Little Compton, RI
Reading Across Rhode Island - Let the Journey Begin!
Reading Across Rhode Island, Rhode Island's One Book, One State community read program is kicking off its 10th year!
The 2012 title is Caleb's Crossing by Pulitzer Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks. In Caleb's Crossing, skilled storyteller Geraldine Brooks has created a work of historical fiction laced with palpable research that illuminates 17th century repression intensified by the harshness of pioneer life but undermined by kindness and compassion. This vividly detailed journey of Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College in 1665, is a story about friendship, spiritual attitudes of faith and belief, of bigotry, prejudice---and hope.
Contact
For more information on Reading Across Rhode Island events, send an email to sheala@rihumanities.org or call (401) 273-2250. Read more about the book and the author on Geraldine Brooks' website..