SALAMANCA - The Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System and Seneca Nation of Indians Libraries will kicks off the 2018 NEA Big Read initiative with a celebration this week. This year’s big read book is “The Round House” by Louise Erdrich. A … [Read more...]
Big Read Kickoff Featuring Pulse Poetry Slam is Thursday Night at Prendergast
JAMESTOWN - The Prendergast Library will host a poetry slam at 6 p.m. tonight kick off the 2015 Big Read featuring “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Autumn Echo Swanson, founder of Pulse Poetry Slam and office coordinator at Infinity Visual … [Read more...]
SUNY Fredonia’s Emily Dickinson Singers to Perform at Reg Studio Theater Wednesday Night
JAMESTOWN - SUNY Fredonia's The Emily Dickinson Singers will perform a concert inspired by the poet on Wednesday, March 26 at 7 p.m. in The Reg Studio Theater in Jamestown. Emily Dickinson was one of 19th-century America’s greatest and most … [Read more...]
Acclaimed Slam Poet to Appear in Jamestown Wednesday as Part of Big Read Project
JAMESTOWN - Prendergast Library will kick off the 2014 Big Read focusing on the poetry of Emily Dickinson at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, with a poetry slam. Brandon Williamson, founder of Pure Ink Poetry Slam of Buffalo and an admissions … [Read more...]
MORNING NEWS: Jack London Biographer to Speak Tonight in Fredonia
One of the major events of the 2013 Big Read is happening tonight in Fredonia. Author James L. Haley, who wrote an biography on Jack London entitled “Wolf,” - will appear on Feb. 14 at 7 p.m. at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House to deliver a talk … [Read more...]
MORNING NEWS: Big Read Kick is Today at Prendergast Library
JAMESTOWN - Today's wintery weather may be the perfect touch to the kick off of a major reading event that was scheduled to take place today in Jamestown. The James Prendergast Library will kick off the annual Big Read later today 5:30 to 7 p.m. in … [Read more...]
MORNING NEWS: Keynote Speaker Announced for 2013 Big Read
FREDONIA - The Daniel A. Reed Library at SUNY Fredonia is pleased to announce that “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London has been selected for this year's Big Read. To help celebrate London’s literary work, award-winning western historian James Haley … [Read more...]
MORNING NEWS: Jack London’s “Call of the Wild” Announced for 2013 Big Read
SUNY Fredonia’s Daniel A. Reed Library has been selected once again to receive a Big Read grant for the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Big Read “Wild” Winter project. A nationwide program to promote literacy in the community, the Big Read is sponsored by … [Read more...]
