The Regional Readers book group meets Tuesday, April 27 in the JSF Conference Room. Coffee and conversation at 2:00 p.m; book discussion at 2:30 p.m. The book group is open to all and new members are always welcome. We encourage suggestions for the 2021 reading list.
The April selection is What My Heart Wants to Tell by Verna Mae Slone. Slone wrote the memoir for her children and grandchildren at the age of 65 “to honor my father. He is only one of many mountain people – proud, brave, sturdy, hard-working, god-fearing, and sensitive – living in a place and time so unique and different that its very simplicity is too profound to be fully understood and explained. Also, I hope to dispel some of the myths and misunderstandings of these people soon to be forgotten. So many lies and half-truths have been written about us . . . And as lies seem to be more easily believed than truths, no matter what we do, we can’t make folks believe we are any different. These lies and half-truths have done our children more damage than anything else.”
The book group is open to all and new members are always welcome. We encourage suggestions for the 2021 reading list.
The Regional Readers book group meets Tuesday, April 27 in the JSF Conference Room. Coffee and conversation at 2:00 p.m; book discussion at 2:30 p.m. The book group is open to all and new members are always welcome. We encourage suggestions for the 2021 reading list.
The April selection is What My Heart Wants to Tell by Verna Mae Slone. Slone wrote the memoir for her children and grandchildren at the age of 65 “to honor my father. He is only one of many mountain people – proud, brave, sturdy, hard-working, god-fearing, and sensitive – living in a place and time so unique and different that its very simplicity is too profound to be fully understood and explained. Also, I hope to dispel some of the myths and misunderstandings of these people soon to be forgotten. So many lies and half-truths have been written about us . . . And as lies seem to be more easily believed than truths, no matter what we do, we can’t make folks believe we are any different. These lies and half-truths have done our children more damage than anything else.”
The book group is open to all and new members are always welcome. We encourage suggestions for the 2021 reading list.
