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4th Monday of each month, 10:30 AM, Watkins Conference Room, Northeast Regional Library

Discussing the Civically Engaged Reader, published by the Great Books Foundation.  New members welcome!

Published with support from the Project on Civic Reflection, The Civically Engaged Reader offers 47 readings from literature, philosophy, and religion that invite reflection on all kinds of civic-minded activities and on the vital connections between thought and service.

Copies of the anthology are available at the Northeast Regional Library checkout desk, thanks to the Friends of the Library.

 Date  selection Author
Part I: Associating
Apr 26, 2010 They'll Say, "She Must Be From Another Country" Imtiaz Dharker
  Fellowship Franz Kafka
  Earliest Impressions Jane Addams
  He Sits Down on the floor of a School for the Retarded Alden Nowlan
May 24, 2010 selection from The Theory of Moral Sentiments Adam Smith
  selection from Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville
  selection from The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. Du Bois
June 28, 2010 Theme for English 8

Langston Hughes

  Recitatif Toni Morrison
  Mending Wall Robert Frost
     
  Part II: Serving  (tentative date assignments)  
Jul 26, 2010 Luella Miller Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  Dry Dock  Margaret Sutherland
  Saving the Crippled Boy  Jan Beatty
Aug 23, 2010 The Eleventh Henri Barbusse
  The Moral Equivalent of War  William James
Sep 27, 2010 The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements

Jane Addams

  The Drum Major Instinct

Martin Luther King, Jr.

  The Book of Ruth from the Bible
Oct 25, 2010 selection from Specimen Days Walt Whitman
  The Lovers of the Poor Gwendolyn Brooks
  What We Don't Talk About When We Don't Talk About Service

Adam Davis

  Part III: Giving  
 Nov 22, 2010 Where Were We Dave Eggers
  selection from The Reveries of the Solitary Walker Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 Dec 20 (?) The Sweetness of Charity Maya Angelou
  The Lamb and the Pinecone Pablo Neruda
  The Gospel of Wealth, Part I Andrew Carnegie
2011 dates tba selection from "Self-Reliance" Ralph Waldo Emerson
  Compassion: The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel" Sogyal Rinpoche
  A Bed for the Night

Bertoldt Brecht

  Four Traditions of Philanthropy Elizabeth Lynn & D. Susan Wisely
  selection from the Mishneh Torah Moses Maimonides
  If All Who Have Begged Help Anna Akhmatova
  Part IV: Leading  
  The Wife of His Youth Charles Waddell Chestnut
  II Samuel, chapters 11-12 the Bible
  The Destructors Graham Greene
  The Helmsman Franz Kafka
  The Lesson Toni Cade Bambara
  The Use of Force William Carlos Williams
  selection from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin
  The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Ursula K. Le Guin
  The History Teacher Billy Collins
  Second Inaugural Address Abraham Lincoln
  The Minister's Black Veil Nathaniel Hawthorne