Upcoming Discussions
November 25th – please register on the Events page to receive information for Zoom login.
Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen by O.HenryÂ
 An old gentleman and Stuffy Pete meet every year at the same bench to celebrate Thanksgiving Day.
Three Thanksgiving Kisses by Edward Payson RoeÂ
“It would not be exactly care or trouble that would sober Elsie into a thoughtful woman, as our story will show.”
Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, 1863 by Abraham LincolnÂ
In the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln formally established Thanksgiving as America’s holiday to recognize the bounties of “fruitful fields and healthful skies” and to help heal the wounds of the nation.
December 30th
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
you can access a digital copy or visit the Ground Floor Checkout Desk to pick up a copy after November 15th
Previous Discussions
October 28th
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Symbols and Signs by Vladimir Nabokov
September 30thÂ
Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman – https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/theliteratureofprescription/exhibitionAssets/digitalDocs/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf
Cathedral by Raymond Carver – http://www.giuliotortello.it/ebook/cathedral.pdf
August 26th, 2020
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
July 29, 2020
The Story of B24Â by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
access at https://www.dfw-sherlock.org/uploads/3/7/3/8/37380505/1899_march_round_the_fire_x_–_the_story_of_b_24.pdf