It’s a busy week at the library with several fascinating programs…
On Tuesday, at 7:00 p.m. at the Brunswick Library, learn about Gothic New England: Hawthorne and the Puritan Legacy” when Faye Ringel visits. A recently retired Professor of English in the Department of Humanities at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Dr. Ringel will discuss how the legacy of Puritan guilt shapes Hawthorne’s best-known novels, The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables, along with Young Goodman Brown and the posthumous-published romance, Dr. Grimshawe’s Secret. After Hawthorne, this darker side of New England history and concern with secret sin, death, and immortality can be seen in authors as diverse as Emily Dickinson, Thornton Wilder, and Stephen King.
On Thursday, at 2:00 p.m. at the Brunswick Library and again at 7:00 p.m. at the St. Simons Public Library (in room 108 of the Casino complex), you can take a journey to a watershed moment in time and discover what it was like to live in another era. Through a multimedia format combining live performance and archival film footage, the story of Anne Frank comes alive in “Through The Eyes of a Friend.” Witness the pain, loss, and hope of young people during the Holocaust in a moving program that’s a poignant portrait of friendship and survival. “Through The Eyes of a Friend” is told from the view point of a fictional “best friend” of Anne Frank. Sarah Weis is a composite character inspired by the experiences and testimonies of many individuals who knew Anne Frank at certain points in her life as well as those young people who experienced the Holocaust throughout Europe. Don’t miss this nationally recognized one-woman play, which will be introduced by Holocaust survivor Dr. Eugene Schoenfeld, author and Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Sociology Department at Georgia State University
A Reminder…On Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. at the St. Simons Island Casino Theater, see the 2006 documentary, “The Rape of Europa,” a film about the Nazi theft and destruction of European art and architecture.
These library programs are FREE and open to all.
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