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September 13, 2018 |
Time:
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities
Book Talk: A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost
Thursday, September 13, 2018
4:00 PM–5:30 PM Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Pebble Hill Free and Open to the Public The public is invited to a book talk by Frye Gaillard, author of A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost.
A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost is a personal history of this pivotal time in American life. Gaillard
explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times – civil rights, black power, women’s liberation, the War in Vietnam, and the protests against it. A Hard Rain also examines the cultural manifestations
of change – music, literature, art, religion, and science – and so we meet not only the Brothers Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X, but also Gloria Steinem, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Harper Lee, Mister Rogers, Rachel Carson, James
Baldwin, Andy Warhol, Billy Graham, Thomas Merton, George Wallace, Richard Nixon, Angela Davis, Barry Goldwater, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Berrigan Brothers.
Frye Galliard is a writer in residence at the University of South Alabama and award-winning author of more than 20 books, including Watermelon Wine: The Spirit
of Country Music, The Quilt: And the Poetry of Alabama Music, Journey to the Wilderness: War, Memory, and a Southern Family’s Civil War Letters, The Books That Mattered: A Reader’s Memoir, and Go South to Freedom, all published
by NewSouth Books. His book He is the winner of the Lillian Smith Award, the Clarence Cason Award for Non-Fiction, the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year Award, and the 2016 Eugene Current-Garcia Award For Distinction in Literary Scholarship.
The event is free, open to the public, and will be followed by refreshments. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Contact:
Maiben Beard
maiben@auburn.edu 334-844-4903 Visit the Website Location
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