Join others at the Love County Library’s book club at 6:00 PM on Tuesday, January 20th. Conversation, fellowship, and refreshments will be centered on popular book titles for adults to discuss. This month’s book, “Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” by James McBride will be featured.
In 1972, workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, unexpectedly discovered a skeleton at the bottom of a well while digging foundations for a new development. This find raised questions about the identity of the skeleton and its origins, secrets long kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, a neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side. Moshe and Chona Ludlow were residents there; Moshe integrated his theater while Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state sought to institutionalize a deaf boy, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at the theater and community leader, who joined forces to protect him.
For more information, contact the Love County Library at (580) 276-3783 or visit the library at 500 South Hwy. 77 in Marietta. The Love County Library is a branch of the Southern Oklahoma Library System.