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MC Celebrates One Maryland One Book With James McBride, October 26!
Published at Oct 26 2009 12:00AM
Category: MC Events
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 The Paul Peck Humanities Institute is pleased to announce that Montgomery College will participate, for a second consecutive year, in Maryland's highly successful statewide community reading program, One Maryland One Book, highlighting great works of literature as a springboard for addressing issues that affect people's lives. James McBride will be visiting Montgomery College October 26 to discuss his novel "Song Yet Sung."
Harold Logan of The Root had this to say in response to this thought-provoking book:
"What do African Americans of today owe to our history? Are a sideways baseball cap or a pair of too-large jeans a slap in the face to the generations of ancestors who could only dream of the freedoms we take for granted today? Is the freedom we enjoy in the 21st century encumbered by the blood and toil our ancestors spent to purchase it? Do we have an obligation to them to respect ourselves, to take care of our families, to educate our children? Or does being free mean that we are free as any other American to embrace materialism, to reach for our guns at the first provocation, to indulge our human weaknesses?
"Song Yet Sung" takes us deep into the treacherous waters, both literal and figurative, that black people of generations past braved to earn their freedom, and, no less, ours. The story takes place on the eastern shore of Maryland, where Tubman, who, like Liz, experienced dream spells as a result of a childhood head injury, conducted the Underground Railroad. Liz's dreams contain images of another dreamer, King, and the vision he revealed to a quarter-million listeners on the Mall in Washington in 1968."
To hear more about this book and its author, plan to attend October 26 at 7 p.m. at the Theatre Arts Arena on the Rockville Campus. The author will discuss the book and then allow time for questions and a book signing. As a bonus, Montgomery College Jazz students will perform.
The event is free and open to the public. Family and friends of the Montgomery College community members are encouraged to attend. Refreshments will be provided by The Friends of the Library.
There is also a web guide created especially for this book. In addition, there are trivia questions and an excellent display about One Maryland One Book in the Rockville Library.
The web guide can be accessed at: http://libguides.montgomerycollege.edu/songyetsung
Related Activities:
Showing of the Spike Lee film Miracle at St. Anna based on James McBride's book of the same title:
Thursday, September 24 at 6:30 p.m in HT216 on the Germantown campus
(Sponsored by the Renaissance Scholars, the MC Honors Program, and Student Life)
Discussion to follow film.
This event is a collaboration of The Paul Peck Humanities Institute, the Maryland Humanities Council, Montgomery County Public Libraries, the Montgomery College Library, and the Montgomery College Honors Program. |
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