*Note: This program has been rescheduled for Thursday, January 16 at 5:30 PM due to inclement weather.
The Let’s Talk About It series entitled: “Travel: New Ways of Seeing” will begin Thursday, January 9th (rescheduled for Thursday, January 16th) at 5:30 PM at Champion Public Library with “Blue Highways: A Journey into America” by William Least Heat-Moon. Rex Morrell will serve as the evening’s scholar.
William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about “those little towns that get on the map — if they get on at all — only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity, Virginia; New Freedom, Pennsylvania; New Hope, Tennessee; Why, Arizona; Whynot, Mississippi.” His adventures, his discoveries, and his recollections of the extraordinary people he encountered along the way amount to a revelation of the true American experience.
This book discussion will be led by scholar Rex Morrell. Morrell majored in history education at Southeastern State College and European History at the University of Oklahoma. Morrell taught history at Murray State College for forty-one years and served as chair of the Liberal Arts Department and as chair of the President’s Scholars Program. Over the last twenty-four years, Morrell has been the presenting scholar for more than 50 different books in the Let’s Talk About It series. Morrell also serves on the Board of Trustees at the Southern Oklahoma Library System.
Books, services, and other materials for this series are provided by Let’s Talk About It, a program of Oklahoma Humanities. Generous funding and support for this series was provided by Kirkpatrick Family Fund, McCasland Foundation, and Oklahoma City University. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in these programs do not necessarily represent those of Oklahoma Humanities.
This program is free and open to the public. Copies of the books are available at the library. For more information, call the Champion Public Library at (580) 223-3164 or visit us at 601 Railway Express in Ardmore. The Champion Public Library is a branch of the Southern Oklahoma Library System.
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