BIG First Week

One of the goals of Clinton County’s Big Read is to reach out into the community and involve people in different ways in various locations. We reach out to the entire community this Saturday with a fiesta at TPA Park Shelter #4 from 1-3pm.

Tina Stock, wife of Mayor Don Stock, Zenaida Loveless, Director of Hispanic Community Services, and Dr. Kay Antonelli, principal of Frankfort High School will speak. The Clinton County band, JVM featuring Rafael Figueroa will play.

Later the same afternoon Liamar Almarza-Duran will take audience members inside Antonio’s struggle to understand a world both harsh and magical. Her PowerPoint, "Reconciling Conflicting Cultural Traditions" will be in Harry’s at the Frankfort Library at 4:30pm. Ms. Duran will also lead a discussion of growing up as a Latina following the movie, Real Women Have Curves at the Wesleyan Conference Center at 7pm

Some of the strange happenings in the book will be discussed when Big Read reaches out to teenagers with “Magic and Mentoring” at the Boys and Girls Club on Tuesday Sept. 11 at 4pm.

Sometimes it’s more fun to listen than to read, so Big Read came up with some ways to enjoy the book that way. The Tippecanoe Storytellers Guild will reach into their memories and dish up folk tales and legends of the Southwest to Frankfort Middle School 8th graders on Sept. 12 from 2-3:30. The oral tradition will also be expressed in a Reader’s Theatre on Sept 13 at 7pm in the Skanta Theatre.

Since the book takes place during and shortly after WWII, we wanted the people of Clinton County to share their own experiences of what this time was like. At Wesley Manor on Friday Sept. 14 at 6:30pm, people will recall memories of life on the homefront during WWII. All that in the first week of Clinton County’s Big Read.