The Big Read: NH Reads Edgar Allan Poe

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Boscawen Public Library is pleased to announce that wewill be part of “The Big Read: New Hampshire Reads EdgarAllan Poe.” A statewide project of the Center for the Book at the N.H.State Library, the “Big Read” will include more than one hundred events throughoutNew Hampshirein October and early November.Celebratethe Big Read at the Boscawen Library with craft workshops, book discussions,and a NH Humanities Council speaker. October 8 6:30pm Steampunk WorkshopOctober 11 7pm NHHC LizzieBorden took an axe. . . or did she?October 16 2:30pm Book Group Entombed Linda Fairstein October 20 10:30am Steampunk WorkshopOctober 23 6pm Reading Interactive: Cryptography
The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment forthe Arts. It brings together partners across the country to encourage readingfor pleasure and enlightenment. In New Hampshire, the Big Read is organized bythe Center for the Book at the New Hampshire State Library, which received agrant from the National Endowment for the Arts to coordinate the statewideeffort and additional support from the New Hampshire Library Association.This is the third time New Hampshire has received a BigRead grant: previous programming focused on Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” andHarper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The Center for the Book at the New Hampshire StateLibrary was established in 2003 to celebrate and promote reading, books,literacy and the literary heritage of New Hampshire,and to highlight the role that reading and libraries play in enriching thelives of the people of the Granite State. It is an affiliateof the Center for the Book at theLibrary of Congress.For more information about The Big Read: New Hampshire Reads Edgar Allan Poe,visit www.BigReadNH.org or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/BigReadNH.The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts(NEA) designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The BigRead is managed by Arts Midwest.