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Funding for this project is provided by the Library Services and Technology Act administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the West Virginia Library Commission.
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Special Events
Monday, October 1, 2007 • 4:00 p.m. Screening of "Awakenings" from Emmy and Peabody award-winning Eyes on the Prize. Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies • 7:00 p.m. Screening of Wonders of the African World, Reynolds Hall, Shepherd University, co-sponsored by the Shepherdstown Film Society and Shepherd Center for Teaching and Learning (book signing) Tuesday, October 2, 2007 • 2:00 p.m. Screening of "Freedom on My Mind" from Eyes on the Prize. Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies • 7:00 p.m. "One Writer's Roots: Henry Louis Gates, Jr." Reynolds Hall, co-sponsored by the Friend of the Shepherdstown Library and the Shepherd University of Teaching and Learning (reception and book signing) Wednesday, October 3, 2007 • 10:30 a.m. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reading, Martinsburg Public Library (reception and book signing) • 1:00 p.m. "The Terrible Transformation" and "Revolution" from the Peabody award winning film Africans in America. Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies • 8:00 p.m. Scarborough Society Lecture "Speaking of Race and Appalachia," Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Frank Theater, presentation of the Appalachian Heritage Writer's Award to Dr. Gates and presentation of West Virginia New Writers' Fiction Competition Awards, (reception and book signing) Thursday, October 4, 2007 • 1:00 p.m. "Brotherly Love" and "Judgment Day" from the Peabody award winning film Africans in America. Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies • 2:30 p.m. Writers Master Class with Ethan Fischer, Editor of Antietam Review, Four Seasons Book Store, Shepherdstown • 4:00 p.m. The Storer College Story and the Question of Race in West Virginia. Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies, A Discussion of An American Phoenix: A History of Storer College from Slavery to Desegregation, 1865-1955, Dr. Dawne Raines Burke (book signing and reception) • 7:00 p.m. Remembering Race and Class in Appalachia, Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies, A Discussion of Red, White, Black and Blue: Dual Memoir of Race and Class in Appalachia, William M. Drennen, Jr. and Kojo (William T.) Jones, Jr. (book signing and reception) Friday, October 5, 2007 • 8 p.m. 12th Annual Appalachian Heritage Festival Concert, Frank Theater (reading of winning Fiction Competition story) Saturday, October 6, 2007 • Appalachian Heritage Festival Activities • 8 p.m. 12th Annual Appalachian Heritage Festival Concert
The 2007 Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence Program is made possible with financial support from the West Virginia Humanities Council, the West Virginia Center for the Book, and the Shepherd University Foundation. |
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