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<p class="default" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Book
Antiqua"">Spring Literary Arts
Festival commemorates the 150</span></b><b><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;
font-family:"Book Antiqua"">th </span></b><b><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:"Book Antiqua"">anniversary of the
American Civil War</span></b><span
style="font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="default"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u1:p> </u1:p>“North
and
South: A House Divided,” the 9</span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"Book Antiqua"">th </span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:
"Book Antiqua"">annual Spring Literary Arts Festival
sponsored by the Herbert
Wescoat Memorial Library and the Friends of the Library in
McArthur, Ohio, will
feature a diverse program in April to commemorate the 150</span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">th
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Book
Antiqua"">anniversary of the American
Civil War. </span><span style="font-family:"Book
Antiqua""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="default"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Main
events
will begin on Friday, April 5</span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"Book Antiqua"">th </span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:
"Book Antiqua"">with a riverboat casino night aboard
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Iron Belle</i> and a nostalgic visit to the 1860s,
complete with games
(roulette, blackjack, and poker), food, a cash bar, and music
provided by Dan
Daly and the Sodbusters (</span><span
style="font-family:"Book Antiqua""><a
href="http://thesodbusters.com/Sodbusters.html">http://thesodbusters.com/Sodbusters.html</a>)
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Book
Antiqua"">in the
McArthur VFW hall. Period costumes are encouraged but not
required. Tickets
will be on sale at the library and at the door. Admission is
$5.00 per person. <u1:p></u1:p> </span><span
style="font-family:"Book Antiqua""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="default"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Saturday,
April
6</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Book
Antiqua"">th </span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">events
will emphasize the
writing contest awards ceremony and keynote presentations by
James Downs,
Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, Connecticut College (</span><span
style="font-family:"Book Antiqua""><a
href="http://www.conncoll.edu/directories/faculty-profiles/james-downs/">http://www.conncoll.edu/directories/faculty-profiles/james-downs/</a>)</span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">,
author of <i>Sick from
Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the
Civil War and
Reconstruction </i>and Ronald S. Coddington, contributing
author for the <i>New
York Times </i>and Assistant Managing Editor of <i>The
Chronicle of Higher
Education </i>and author of <i>Faces of the Civil War: An
Album of Union
Soldiers and Their Stories, Faces of the Confederacy: An
Album of Southern
Soldiers and Their Stories, </i>and <i>African American
Faces of War: An Album </i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">(</span></span><span
style="font-family:
"Book Antiqua""><a
href="http://www.roncoddington.com/">http://www.roncoddington.com/</a>)</span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">.
These events begin at 12:30
p.m. in the meeting room of the library. <u1:p></u1:p> </span><span
style="font-family:"Book Antiqua""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="default"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">On
Sunday,
April 7</span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">th
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Book
Antiqua"">at 2:00 p.m.,
the Vinton County Women’s Chorus will present an American
Civil War Choral
Concert in Trinity Episcopal Church, featuring selections from
spirituals,
hymns, and popular parlor and battle songs of the era. <u1:p></u1:p> </span><span
style="font-family:"Book Antiqua""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="default"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Sally
Shearer,
past president of the Friends of the Library, will moderate a
book
discussion on Wednesday, April 10</span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"Book Antiqua"">th </span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:
"Book Antiqua"">at 7:00 p.m. in the library meeting
room. The discussion will
focus on <i>Civil War Stories </i>by Ambrose Bierce, an
American journalist and
short story writer and native of <st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:city
u2:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Meigs
County</st1:city></st1:place></st1:city>, <st1:state
u2:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Ohio</st1:state></st1:state></st1:place>.
<u1:p></u1:p> </span><span style="font-family:"Book
Antiqua""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="default"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">There
will
be a screening of the film <st1:city u2:st="on"><st1:place
u2:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><i>Lincoln</i></st1:place></st1:city></st1:place></st1:city><i>
</i>by Steven Spielberg in the library on Thursday, April 11</span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">th
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Book
Antiqua"">at 6:30 p.m. <u1:p></u1:p> </span><span
style="font-family:"Book Antiqua""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="default" style="page-break-before:always"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;
font-family:"Book Antiqua"">On Saturday, April 13</span><span
style="font-size:
8.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">th </span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;
font-family:"Book Antiqua"">at 7:00 p.m. in the <st1:place
u2:st="on"><st1:placename u2:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename
w:st="on">Vinton</st1:placename></st1:place></st1:placename>
<st1:placetype u2:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:placetype>
<st1:placetype u2:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Middle
School</st1:placetype></st1:placetype></st1:place>,
Bob Bence, Kendra Ward, and several of their musical friends
will provide
entertainment for a Civil War Ball (</span><span
style="font-family:"Book Antiqua""><a
href="http://www.dulcimertimes.com/">http://www.dulcimertimes.com</a>)</span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">.
Jean Hilton, otherwise
known as “Miz Rosebud,” will call the dances. Period costumes
are encouraged
but not required. Admission is free. (In preparation for the
ball, a free dance
class will be held on March 26</span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:
"Book Antiqua"">th </span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">at
6:30
pm in the library meeting room.) <u1:p></u1:p> </span><span
style="font-family:"Book Antiqua""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="default"><span style="font-family:"Book
Antiqua"">Closing out the 2013
festival, the Friends of the Library and the Friends’
Community Players will
present a “Civil War Vaudeville Show,” showcasing local
entertainment, on
Friday, April 19</span><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">th
</span><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua"">at
7:00 p.m. in the <st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:placename
u2:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Vinton</st1:placename></st1:place></st1:placename>
<st1:placetype u2:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:placetype>
<st1:placetype u2:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Middle
School</st1:placetype></st1:placetype></st1:place>.
Tickets for the show will be on sale at the library and at the
door. Admission
is $5.00 per person. <u1:p></u1:p> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">For
information about the
festival, contact the library at (740) 596-5691 or visit the
library’s calendar
of events at <a
href="http://www.vintoncountypublic.lib.oh.us">www.vintoncountypublic.lib.oh.us</a>.
The Herbert Wescoat Memorial Library serving <st1:place
u2:st="on"><st1:placename u2:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename
w:st="on">Vinton</st1:placename></st1:place></st1:placename>
<st1:placetype u2:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype></st1:placetype></st1:place>
and
the Friends of the Herbert Wescoat Memorial Library are also
on Facebook.</span><span style="font-family:"Book
Antiqua""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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