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• Southern Highlanders: Two Novels of Appalachia 

• ONLINE: A Zoom invitation link will be sent one day before each class session begins.

  Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. A waitlist will be available.

  Texts:
  Oral History ● Smith, Lee 1983 ● Berkley Press 2011 ● Kindle edition available.
  Above the Waterfall ● Rash, Ron ● 2015 Ecco ● Kindle edition available.

  Join Cecilia Donohue for a discussion of two novels in which North America’s oldest mountain chain serves as the backdrop. The first week will be dedicated to discussion of Lee Smith’s Oral History (1983), in which a student’s search for her roots spawns a multi-voiced narrative of the Cantrell family of Hoot Owl Holler. Week two will focus on Ron Rash’s Above the Waterfall (2015) as its principal characters negotiate the region’s social and ecological challenges of the 21^st century. Cecilia Donohue retired in 2013 following a 25-year career of undergraduate instruction, graduate teaching, and academic administration. She now resides in rural Tennessee with her husband Bill and their menagerie of two horses, one cat, and one dog. Cecilia has written extensively on America’s southern authors and poets, notably Robert Penn Warren. She is currently an associate editor of The Steinbeck Review.

  

  

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• Fee: $30.00

• Instructor(s): Cecilia Donohue

• Dates: 10/23/2023 - 10/30/2023

  Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

• Sessions: 2

  Days: M

• Building: Online Course

  Room: Online via Zoom

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• Book Club
  Dates: 9/25/2023 - 11/27/2023

• ONLINE REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS NOW CLOSED.
  If you are trying to register the day before this class starts or the day of the class, please email or call the office. This close to the class start date, we need to register you over the phone and provide you with any important information and send you the Zoom Link if the class in online. Thank you!
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• ONLINE: A Zoom invitation link will be sent one day before each class session begins.

  Using prepared questions and our own observations, the discussion each month will explore a book from current best-seller lists. The facilitators will send a list of discussion questions for each book to all registrants prior to each Book Club session. Please read Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind before the first class. Kathleen and William Hillegas are long-time members of both Elderwise and the Book Club. Both are avid readers, and look forward to a lively exchange of ideas, opinions, and interpretations.

  September
  Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari
  History, Social philosophy Published in 2011, 443 pages
  

   

   

   

   

   

  
  
  October
  Born a Crime: Stories from a South African childhood by Trevor Noah
  Biography Published in 2016, 289 pages
  

   

   

   

   

   

   

  November
  The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston
  Fiction, Contemporary Romance Published in 2020, 351 pages

  

  

   

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