Dayna Dunbar Coming to Grove Library
Author and Oklahoma native Dayna Dunbar is bringing her statewide tour to Grove Public Library on Tuesday, September 19, at 1:00 P.M.
The author of "The Saints and Sinners of Okay County" and "The Wings that Fly Us Home" will be making more than 65 presentations in public libraries around the state this spring and fall. Dunbar’s trek across the state is part of Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma, the centennial literary program sponsored by the Oklahoma Humanities Council and the Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
The project was conceived to give literature an important role in the state’s centennial celebration, and is patterned after the One Book projects that have become popular around the country. In these programs, communities and states come together to read and discuss the same book.
More than 70 One Book projects have been sponsored from Maine to California. Oklahoma’s statewide reading project is different in that it promotes books with Oklahoma themes. In addition, Oklahoma readers decide through an online vote the bookthey will read and discuss each year. The author of the selected book is invited to tour the state.
Voters selected "The Honk and Holler Opening Soon" by Billie Letts to read and discuss in 2004. Tim Tingle’s "Walking the Choctaw Road: Stories from Red People Memory" was the 2005 selection. More than 7,000 people attended programs presented by Letts and Tingle in the past two years.
Readers selected Dunbar’s "The Saints and Sinners of Okay County" as the 2006 Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma Book. It’s the story of Aletta Honor, a hardscrabble heroine in 1970’s small town Oklahoma who must foster her hidden talents and strengths in order to reclaim her life and help her family survive.
The author of "The Saints and Sinners of Okay County" and "The Wings that Fly Us Home" will be making more than 65 presentations in public libraries around the state this spring and fall. Dunbar’s trek across the state is part of Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma, the centennial literary program sponsored by the Oklahoma Humanities Council and the Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
The project was conceived to give literature an important role in the state’s centennial celebration, and is patterned after the One Book projects that have become popular around the country. In these programs, communities and states come together to read and discuss the same book.
More than 70 One Book projects have been sponsored from Maine to California. Oklahoma’s statewide reading project is different in that it promotes books with Oklahoma themes. In addition, Oklahoma readers decide through an online vote the bookthey will read and discuss each year. The author of the selected book is invited to tour the state.
Voters selected "The Honk and Holler Opening Soon" by Billie Letts to read and discuss in 2004. Tim Tingle’s "Walking the Choctaw Road: Stories from Red People Memory" was the 2005 selection. More than 7,000 people attended programs presented by Letts and Tingle in the past two years.
Readers selected Dunbar’s "The Saints and Sinners of Okay County" as the 2006 Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma Book. It’s the story of Aletta Honor, a hardscrabble heroine in 1970’s small town Oklahoma who must foster her hidden talents and strengths in order to reclaim her life and help her family survive.
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