Livingston Reads is a program sponsored by the public libraries in Livingston County, Michigan and designed to encourage residents read for pleasure; to create community through reading; to promote the exploration of ideas, culture, and knowledge through books; and to advance a sense of our own local history through the experience of reading and sharing.
The program runs from February 1st through April 30th. You are encouraged to check out a copy of the book from your local public library and discuss it with your family, friends, co-workers and neighbors. Each library will be hosting events in association with the book.
About the book
On April 14, 1935, the biggest dust storm on record descended over five states, from the Dakotas to Amarillo, Texas. People standing a few feet apart could not see each other; if they touched, they risked being knocked over by the static electricity that the dust created in the air. The Dust Bowl was the product of reckless, market-driven farming that had so abused the land that, when dry weather came, the wind lifted up millions of acres of topsoil and whipped it around in "black blizzards," which blew as far east as New York. Egan's portraits of the families who stayed behind are sobering and far less familiar than those of the "exodusters" who staggered out of the High Plains.
February 11, 2008 - Livingston Reads Kickoff Program -
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Keep the Great Lakes GREAT!
Video of our Program
The Great Lakes hold one-fifth of the world's freshwater supply and currently provide drinking water to over 42 million people. Yet each day, our Lakes are damaged economically and ecologically by untreated sewage, toxic pollution, and invasive species. Unless we invest in a solution today, the price we pay tomorrow will be much higher and future generations may never experience the Great Lakes as we know them.
Fortunately there is a solution - you! Please attend the upcoming presentation at Brighton District Library. Melissa Damaschke, Sierra Club Great Lakes Regional Representative, will discuss threats to the Great Lakes and solutions to those threats as well as actions you can take to PROTECT the Great Lakes.
Timothy Egan - 2:00pm
Cromaine District Library will host Mr. Egan as he briefly discusses his book and signs participants copies of "The Worst Hard Time". Books will not be sold at this appearance so make sure to bring your own. See the video here.
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