Many supported Reading Challenge
On behalf of the Libretto Book Club, I want to thank the following sponsors who made the fourth annual communitywide Summer Reading Challenge possible: Waterworks Visual Arts Center, F&M Bank, Salisbury Post, Trinity Oaks Retirement Community, Catawba College, Friends of Rowan Public Library, Livingstone College, Miller Davis Agency, Rowan Regional Medical Center, Heather St. Aubin-Stout/Loft 130, Literary Bookpost, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra with additional support from Marathon Business Center, Center for Faith & the Arts, and Godley’s Garden Center and Nursery.
We were especially pleased with the articles in the Post by Deirdre Parker Smith throughout the summer. They kept the community informed and interested and spread the word that all were invited to the free reception by the culinary staff of Trinity Oaks retirement community, while enjoying music by Don and Gretchen Tracy of the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra and the interesting and informative panel discussion.
Once again, the panel presented an outstanding program on the theme “Prose & Politics.” Dr. M.J. Simms Maddox, associate professor/political science at Livingstone College, was the moderator; Dr. Michael Bitzer, associate professor/political science at Catawba College, commented on “Divided America”; Dr. Cassandra Newby-Alexander, professor of history at Virginia’s Norfolk State University, returned by popular demand to discuss “Black Men Built the Capitol”; and Dr. Janice M. Fuller, writer in residence and English professor at Catawba College, discussed both books of fiction, “The Appeal” and “The Zero Game.”
Thanks to everyone who attended the play “The Best Man,” produced in June by the St. Thomas Players, drama troupe of the Center for Faith & the Arts .Those who attended the play and the panel presentation were able to participate in several art forms: Literary art, visual art, performing art and culinary art.
What an evening!
ó Barbara G. Setzer
Salisbury
Setzer is president of the Libretto Book Club.