Madison Library’s Big Read NH events take place this week and next. If you haven’t picked up a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird, there are several available at the the library. But whether you read the book this month, or you read it years ago, or haven’t read it yet, everyone is welcome at all of these events.
On Tuesday, March 16 at 7 pm, Attorney Richard Hesse will speak about “Civil Liberties vs. Security” at the library. This is a New Hampshire Humanities Council program. Hesse (J.D., Georgetown University; Professor Emeritus, Franklin Pierce Law Center) will speak about lawyers engaged in unpopular causes, much as Atticus Finch was in “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Hesse will link this issue to the present by discussing lawyers involved in questioning provisions of the Patriot Act and other national security efforts.
On Tuesday, March 23 at 12:45 pm, the To Kill a Mockingbird film will be shown at Silver Lake Landing, after the senior dining lunch. Later that evening, at 7 pm, the Madison Library book group will meet to discuss the book at the library. As always at our book group meetings, refreshments will be served.
The Madison Library is one of more than 100 partners working with The Center for the Book at the New Hampshire State Library to bring The Big Read: NH Reads To Kill a Mockingbird to the Granite State during March 2010. 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.