The Power of Words
The Power of Words
October
18 - October 20, 2005
11:00 am - 7:00 pm daily (Library Front Porch)
Students, faculty, staff, administrators, trustees and Furman friends will read aloud portions of a book, story, poem, or essay that has been influential in their lives.
Donations to benefit the Greenville Literacy Association
Reader Schedule:
Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday
Tuesday, October 18, 2005:
| Time | Reader | Work |
| 11:00am | Mary Fairbairn | In the Beginning: Writings from Students of the Greenville Literacy Association |
| 11:15 | Ruby Morgan | With Your Own Two Hands by Seymour Bernstein |
| 11:30 | Paul Thomas | Kurt Vonnegut, Cold Turkey |
| 11:45 | Judy Grisel | God in Search of Man, Heschel |
| 12:00 noon | Ann Edwards | Love You Forever by Robert Munsch and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee |
| 12:15 pm | Shelly Matthews | Denise Levertov, "Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus" |
| 12:30 | Anna Eaton | The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck |
| 12:45 | Mary Fairbairn | We Were Tired of Living in a House |
| 1:00 | Tim Fehler | Wolfgang Borchert, "The Rats Do Sleep Nights" and "The Kitchen Clock" |
| 1:15 | Madison McClendon | The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien |
| 1:30 | Brian Siegel | "Flight" from Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita |
| 1:45 | Brent Nelsen | Selections from the writings of C.S. Lewis |
| 2:00 | David Shi | Henry David Thoreau: "Walking" |
| 2:15 | Tom Kazee | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, and Billy Budd by Herman Melville |
| 2:30 | Adrienne Robertson | Fannie Flagg |
| 2:45 | Jean Bridger | Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult |
| 3:00 | Allison Allgood | He's Just Not That into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo |
| 3:15 | Julie Carter | George Singleton |
| 3:30 | Cris Ferguson | Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery |
| 3:45 | Susan Clark | The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber |
| 4:00 | Will Swinson | Selections from Dr. Seuss and Frederick Buechner |
| 4:15 | Mary Adkins | Ishmael by Daniel Quinn |
| 4:30 | Mary Adkins | Peace Like a River by Leif Enger and also Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston |
| 4:45 | Jimmy Quinn | Tennyson |
| 5:00 | Mary Fairbairn | The Return of the Dragon |
| 5:15 | Kay Freedy | The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara |
| 5:30 | Mary Fairbairn | "America" by Allen Ginsberg |
| 5:45 | Mary Fairbairn | Wicked by Gregory Maguire |
| 6:00 | John Payne | Lamb by Christopher Moore |
| 6:15 | Mary Fairbairn | Selected poems of Sylvia Plath |
| 6:30 | Molly Bell | Catch-22, Joseph Heller |
| 6:45 | Christina Kauffmann | Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls |
| Time | Reader | Work |
| 11:00am | Tim Rogers | Mollie Katzen, The Moosewood Cookbook |
| 11:15 | Scott Henderson | Middlemarch, George Eliot |
| 11:30 | Janis Crowe | Philip Larkin's poem "Church Going" and Charlotte's Webb, by E. B. White |
| 11:45 | Carly LaBuff | Something from Roald Dahl |
| 12:00 noon | Rod Kelley | Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll |
| 12:15 pm | Mary Fairbairn | Genesis: Memory of Fire by Eduardo Galeano |
| 12:30 | Lauren Wood | Jumpby Nadine Gordimer |
| 12:45 | Kay Freedy | The Art of Eating by MFK Fischer |
| 1:00 | Dena Robinson | Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner |
| 1:15 | Robin Visel | The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing |
| 1:30 | Jane Love | Susan Griffin's "Matter" |
| 1:45 | Lauren Wood | "Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society, 1962" and "Yippee Manifesto" |
| 2:00 | Bill Aarnes | Thoreau, Walden |
| 2:15 | Kevin Treu | "The Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice Cream God", by John R. Powers (with a bonus reading from The Great Divorce and Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis) |
| 2:30 | Janis Bandelin | We're Just Like You Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle by Celia Rivenbark and My Losing Season by Pat Conroy |
| 2:45 | Lindsey Woolf | Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng |
| 3:00 | Rachel Pope | Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen |
| 3:15 | Ryan Lazar and DebbieLee Landi | "Deep Thoughts" by Jack Handey |
| 3:30-4:00 | Tim Rogers | From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg |
| Delia Rogers | Viking Ships at Sunrise by Mary Pope Osborne | |
| Melinda Menzer | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark | |
| 4:00 | Victoria Chevalier-Brooks | Excerpts from Derek Walcott and Gwendolyn Brooks |
| 4:15 | Susan Munkres | Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver |
| 4:30 | Savita Nair | Meena Alexander "The Shock of Arrival" excerpts |
| 4:45 | Anjali Carroll | Inkheart by Cornelia Funke |
| Mary Carroll | Goblin Giggles by Gene Fehler | |
| 5:00 | Margaret Oakes | Big Two-Hearted River Ernest Hemingway |
| 5:15 | Jack Tillman | Eldest by Christopher Paolini |
| 5:30 | Danielle Tait | "If" by Rudyard Kipling and "Hidden Emotions" by Jeane Bailey |
| 5:45 | Katie Hutchinson | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith |
| 6:00 | Katherine Thomason | The Aeneid by Virgil (Her own translation!) |
| 6:15 | Eric Helms | T.S. Eliot: The Hollow Men, Paul Muldoon: Gathering Mushrooms, and Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| 6:30 | Eric Helms | T.S. Eliot: The Wasteland |
| 6:45 | Lisa Cantrell | Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris |
| Time | Reader | Work | Confirmed |
| 11:00am | Joseph Dowley | TBA | E-mailed 10/14 |
| 11:15 | Libby Young | TBA--Maybe A Wrinkle in Time | Confirmed 10/13 |
| 11:30 | Betty Kelly | Little Guide to a Well-Read Life | |
| 11:45 | Janet Nazar | Shel Silverstein | |
| 12:00 noon | Kay Freedy | An Alphabet for Gourmets by M.F.K. Fisher | Confirmed 10/17 |
| 12:15 pm | Adam Murphree | Franz Kafka, "Before the Law" | Confirmed 10/17 |
| 12:30 - 1:00 | Victoria Chevalier-Brooks | The Chaneysville Incident: David Bradley, 'Perejil': Rita Dove, Invisible Man: Ralph Ellison and Beloved: Toni Morrison | Confirmed 10/17 |
| 1:00 | Tim Fehler | David Barthelme, "Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby"
and Sinclair Lewis, "He Loved His Country" (opening) |
Confirmed 10/18 |
| 1:15 | Tony Arrington | Dave Barry columns on College and Science Fairs | E-mailed 10/18 |
| 1:30 | Ken Ge | The Stranger - Albert Camus and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish - Dr. Seuss | Confirmed 10/17 |
| 1:45 | Jean Schwab | TBA--might be either Roger Zelazny or Terry Pratchett | |
| 2:00 | David Rutledge | James Agee, "Knoxville, 1915" from A Death in the Family | Confirmed 10/4 |
| 2:15 | Tierney Short | TBA | E-mailed 10/10 |
| 2:30 | Matt Casella | Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk |
Confirmed 10/18 |
| 2:45 | Brandon Bordelon | Selections from Prufrock and Other Observations, T.S. Eliot | Confirmed 10/11 |
| 3:00 | Steve Richardson | All the Names by Jose Saramago (translated from the Portuguese) and Journey Around the Equator by Mark Twain | E-mailed 10/4 |
| 3:15 | Sean O'Rourke and DebbieLee Landi | The "Pastoral Letter" condemning women speakers and Sarah Grimke's response to it | |
| 3:30 | Reserved for above | ||
| 3:45 | Jennifer Chapman | Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson | Confirmed 10/11 |
| 4:00 | Anna Sibley | The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky | Confirmed 10/11 |
| 4:15 | Sarah Palmer | Walking to Martha's Vineyard -- poems by Franz Wright | Confirmed 10/11 |
| 4:30 | Christy Cody | Stargirl--Jerry Spinelli, Secret Life of Bees and French Toast for Breakfast by Cohen and Words I wish I wrote | Confirmed 10/11 |
| 4:45 | Gil Allen | Four short poems by Wallace Stevens: "Anecdote of the Jar"; "Bantams in Pine-Woods"; "A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts"; "The Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour" | Held in case he gets back in town |
| 5:00 | Charles Delancey | M. Scott Peck, "The Different Drum" | E-mailed 10/18 |
| 5:15 | Hailey Irminger | Life of Pi, by Yann Martel |
Confirmed 10/18 |
| 5:30 | Cynthia Ford | Briar Rose - Jane Yolen | Confirmed 10/17 |
| 5:45 | Kristen Pitts | Kate Chopin: "Desiree's Baby" | E-mailed 10/18 |
| 6:00 | David Ballinger | Ever Learning by Alvin Sell, Jr. | Confirmed 10/10 |
| 6:15 | Cynthia Ford | Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine | Confirmed 10/11 |
| 6:30 | Carly LaBuff | something by Roald Dahl | Confirmed 10/11 |
| 6:45 | Ben Lathrop | "Odor of Verbena" by William Faulkner and/or "The Partly Cloudy Patriot" by Sarah Vowell |