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October 8
7:00 PM Pleasant Valley Library
Banned Books - Weber
Reads Tom & Huck
Gary Dohrer and Lynnda Wangsgard |
October 10
1:00-3:00 PM Ft. Buenaventura
Tom and Huck Day
Free admission, refreshments, storytelling |
October 29
7:00 PM Weber County Library, Main Branch
Teaching Challenging Texts -- Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Margaret Rostkowski, Forrest Crawford, Scott Rogers, Vivian
Easton, Charlie Trentelman |
2010
| Date |
Event |
Time/Location |
|
January 7 |
Mark Twain (Brad Roghaar) interviewed
by Charlie Trentelman, Standard Examiner |
7:00 PM/Pleasant Valley Branch |
| January 12 |
"Twain and
his Times: the Gilded Age"
Susan Matt, History, WSU |
12:30 PM /H-H Room, Stewart
Library, WSU |
| January 21 |
"Absent
fathers/Dangerous Fathers: Tom, Huck and Finn"
Colin Inglefield, Physics, WSU |
7:00 PM/Weber County Main
Branch |
| January 26 |
"The Life and
Times of Huckleberry Finn"
Russ Burrows, English, WSU |
12:30 PM /H-H Room, Stewart
Library, WSU |
| January 28 |
Mark Twain for
Children
bilingual story time
Carlos Camacho |
6:00 PM/Weber County Main
Branch |
| February 4 |
"Tom and Injun
Joe: Twain and Native Americans"
Kathryn MacKay, History, WSU |
7:00 PM/Ogden Valley Branch
(Huntsville) |
| February 9 |
"Challenging
Huckleberry Finn"
Forrest Crawford, Teacher Education and Gary Dohrer, English,
WSU |
12:30 PM/ H-H Room, Stewart
Library, WSU |
| February 18 |
Panel of Public
School Students who have read Tom and Huck |
7:00 PM/Weber County Main
Branch |
| February 23 |
"Huckleberry
Finn's Journey"
Carl Porter, Honors, WSU |
CANCELLED |
| February 25 |
"Twain and His Times: Do Times
Change?"
bilingual discussion
Carlos Camacho |
7:00 PM Weber County Main
Branch |
| March 2 |
"The Conscience of
Huck: An Enduring Philosophical Puzzle"
Robert Fudge, Philosophy, WSU |
12:30 PM/ H-H Room, Stewart
Library, WSU |
| March 11 |
"Adolescence in
the 19th and 21st Centuries: Huck Finn, Then and Now"
Eric Amsel, Psychology, WSU |
7:00 PM/North Branch |
| March 25 |
"The Mississippi
River in Tom and Huck's Adventures"
Julie Rich, Geography, WSU |
7:00 PM/Southwest Branch (Roy) |
| March 30 |
Musical Selections
from Big River
WSU Performing Arts students |
12:30 PM /H-H Room, Stewart
Library, WSU |
| April 6 |
"Mark Twain:
Writer, Lecturer, Entertainer--the Public Intellectual in
American Life"
John Schwiebert, English, WSU |
12:30 PM/ H-H Room, Stewart
Library, WSU |
| April 13 |
"What's with the
Ending of Huckleberry Finn?"
Robert Hogge, English, WSU |
12:30 PM /H-H Room, Stewart
Library, WSU |
| April 15 |
"Twain and African
American Writers"
Wilfred Samuels, English, U of U |
7:00 PM/Pleasant Valley Branch
Library |
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