Event schedules and free copies of the book Beloved by Toni Morrison are available at Gould Library, the Camden Center Library, and at public libraries throughout our community.
Racism in American Institutions -- a lecture by Dr. Roscoe Scarborough of College of Coastal Georgia • 5:30-6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, at the Casino Building, Room 108, St. Simons Island
February 9
Film -- Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am • 11 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, at Stembler Theatre, College of Coastal Georgia, Brunswick
February 10
Slave Resistance, Protest, and Revolt -- a lecture by Dr. Hector Montford of College of Coastal Georgia • 6-7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, at Brunswick-Glynn County Library, 208 Gloucester St., Brunswick
February 22
CANCELED Film -- Beloved starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Kimberly Elise, and Thandiwe Newton • 7-10 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, at Stembler Theatre, College of Coastal Georgia, Brunswick
February 23
No Victims Here: Agency in 'Beloved' -- a lecture by Dr. Daniel Black of Clark Atlanta University • 2-3 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022, at Stembler Theatre, College of Coastal Georgia, Brunswick
February 24
124 in 'Beloved' and More: Haunted Houses in American Literature -- a virtual lecture by Dr. Jon Hershey of Georgia Highlands College • 11 a.m.-12 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022, at Stembler Theatre, College of Coastal Georgia, Brunswick
March 2
Coping to Survive: A Psychological Perspective -- a lecture by Dr. Aurora Ramos Nuñez of College of Coastal Georgia • 5:30-6:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 2, 2022, at the Casino Building, Room 108, St. Simons Island
March 8
Banning Beloved: Politics, Literature, and Censorship -- a lecture by Dr. Nicole Pankiewicz of College of Coastal Georgia • 6-7 p.m., Tuesday, March 8, 2022, at Brunswick-Glynn County Library, 208 Gloucester St., Brunswick
March 24
Using Funeral Programs to Inform Genealogy Research -- a lecture by Renate Yarborough Sanders • 6-7 p.m., Thursday, March 24, 2022. Register in advance to receive the link for this virtual program. Presented by College of Coastal Georgia Library.
Beloved by Beloved is the story of Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman who is living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter, Denver. Sethe is haunted by the ghost of her baby girl whom she killed years earlier while running from bounty hunters attempting to return her and her children to their enslavers. Beloved won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. It is based on the true tragic story of Margaret Garner, a woman who was enslaved in Kentucky and escaped with her children to Ohio in 1856.
Newbery Medalist and Coretta Scott King Award winner Christopher Paul Curtis' debut middle-grade/young-YA novel for Scholastic features his trademark humor, compelling storytelling, and unique narrative voice. Eleven-year-old Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit. He's best known in his hometown as the boy who made a memorable impression on Frederick Douglass. But things change when someone steals money from Elijah's friend, who has been saving to buy his family out of captivity in the South. Elijah embarks on a dangerous journey to America in pursuit of the thief, and he discovers firsthand the unimaginable horrors of the life his parents fled -- a life from which he'll always be free, if he can find the courage to get back home.
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky by Cassie, who flew above New York in Faith Ringgold's Tar Beach, soars into the sky once more in Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky. This time, Cassie and her brother, Be Be, meet a train full of people, and Be Be joins them. But the train departs before Cassie can climb aboard. With Harriet Tubman as her guide, Cassie retraces the steps of enslaved people who escaped on the real Underground Railroad and is finally reunited with her brother at the story's end.
