Well, gentle readers, your correspondent has been negligent with posting to the blog. Contrary to Eliot, April is not the cruelest month. November is. In other words, November has been so busy that it's just been a blur and here it is Decemver and I can't believe that I haven't posted to the blog since October. Oy.
Still, the plans for True Grit this Spring are proceeding apace. On the books for sure: An April 1st showing of the original movie, to be held in Echols Conference room. We'll have one showing in the morning at 9:30 followed by a panel presentation of appropriate topics and discussion, and then another showing in the afternoon with its own panel and discussion.
Not yet for certain, but in the works are the possibility of a courtroom reenactment taken from the book, a demonstration of some of the weapons used in the book, several reading groups (of course), and some possible service projects.
If you have a book club, and would like to read the book with your group and then have some of our students or faculty discuss with you, then call me up and we'll arrange it.
I'd also like to recruit some service groups to go out to local nursing homes and read the novel with or to the folks that live there.
We're also proceeding with some other ideas, and I'll let you know when they develop. In the meantime, Becky Timmons from Lifelong Learning has promised to set up a website to help coordinate these activities. Yay, Becky.
More soon--I promise.
I would just like to say, that it is a brilliant idea about going out to the nursing homes and reading "True Grit" to the elderly there. I am pretty sure they would realy enjoy that. Also, sounds awesome about reenacting the court scene. You have come up with some pretty good ideas.
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