One Maryland, One Book Project
Chesapeake College is participating in this state-wide project with most of the activities taking place in October 2009. The Maryland Humanities Council has chosen James McBride's novel, Song Yet Sung, as the selection for this year. Here is a listing of activities taking place here on campus, regionally and state-wide. Please check back often for an updated list of activities.
Chesapeake College Activities
Many classes on campus will be reading Song Yet Sung and instructors have planned classroom assignments based on the reading.
The library will host a book discussion for members of the Institute of Adult Learning on Monday, October 19. All IAL members are invited to attend.
There will be a campus-wide, community-wide book discussion on Monday, October 26, at 11:30 a.m. in HEC 110. Everyone is invited to attend and participate in the discussion.
Regional Activities
Talbot County Free Library and the Talbot Historical Society:
Sept. 10, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m., Talbot County Free
Library, Easton, Beverly Lowry, author of Harriet Tubman, Imagining a Life.
Sept. 21, 6:00 p.m., Historical Society of
Talbot County auditorium—Harriet Tubman, re-enactment
October 3, late morning, Underground Railroad
game in downtown Easton
October 19, evening, book discussion, Talbot Free
Library
Queen Anne's County Public Library:
October 12,
7:00 p.m., Centreville
Branch, Professor Clara Small, Salisbury University, will discuss Song Yet
Sung and describe
the realities of Maryland's Eastern Shore in the 1850s
October 13, 7:00 p.m., Kent Island Branch, Same program as above
October 22, 7:00 p.m., Centreville Branch, book discussion
October 27, 7:00 p.m., Kent Island Branch, book discussion
C Caroline
County Public Library
October 15, North County Branch, Bill Grimmette will re-enact Frederick
Douglass
Appearances by James McBride on the Eastern Shore
October 28, 9:30 a.m., North Dorchester High School
October 28, 2:30 p.m., University of Maryland Eastern Shore
October 28, 7:00 p.m., Salisbury University
October 29, 4:30 p.m., Washington College, Gibson Hall
Statewide Activities
Check the Maryland Humanities Council frequently to get the most up to date listing of various activities celebrating Song Yet Sung.
If there is inaccurate information on this page, please send correction or comments to:lrcdesk@chesapeake.edu