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The Great Michigan Read Grants

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

For more information on these and other Great Michigan Read events, link to www.greatmichiganread.org

May 1, 2008
Celebration of Local Writers. Artworks, Big Rapids.

June 6, 2008
7:00 p.m. Author Jerry Dennis to discuss approaches in storytellling in The Nick Adams Stories. Big Rapids High School Auditorium, Big Rapids. Contact: jandj [at] tucker-usa.com

The Great Michigan Read: One Book, 15 Communities -- (2007)

Grant Awarded: November 2007

Type of Grant: We the People/The Great Michigan Read

Sponsors: Artworks

Collaborators: Community Libraries in Mecosta county, Lake county, Osceola county, and Montcalm county

Contact: Jeanette Fleury, 231-796-0071, jandj@tucker-usa.com

Award: $7,500

Website: www.artworksinbigrapids.com

A continuation of the region’s reading and discussion program is proposed using the Nick Adams Stories. The Ernest Hemingway: Life in Michigan DVD will also be viewed and discussed, family and personal memoirs will be written, fish and game meals that celebrate the abundance Michigan has to offer will take place. While the “Up North with the Hemingways” exhibit is at Artworks, the organization will host “A Celebration of Local Writers” event and the writers in turn, will host a reception in honor of Hemingway while the exhibit is on site. The programming will end with Michigan author, Jerry Dennis, presenting his thoughts about the life of Ernest Hemingway and the time Hemingway spent in Michigan. Dennis has spent time visiting and writing about Hemingway’s Michigan haunts; he will discuss “ways in the Nick Adams Stories alternate between a meticulously realistic sense of place and idealized version of it and why the author may have used two approaches in his story telling.”