First session: Sunday March 13, 2022 7:00 - 8:00 pm

(Re-scheduled from Sunday, February 27, 2022)

 Readings:  March, by Geraldine Brooks and “Journal Kept at the Hospital, 1862, Georgetown, D.C.,” in America’s War, edited by Edward  Ayers, pp. 5-10

This reading and discussion group will meet five times, on the last Sunday of each month, from now through June to explore different facets of the Civil War experience, informed by reading the words written or spoken by powerful voices from the past and present. 

In the first discussion on, we will discuss the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, March by Geraldine Brooks. The author richly imagines the wartime experiences of March, the absent father in Little Women. A chaplain in the Union Army, his experiences during the Civil War and Reconstruction will test March’s most deeply held beliefs and change his marriage.

We will also discuss the wartime journal of nurse Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women. Her journal allows us to compare fiction and firsthand testimony, and to think about what we can learn from each.

Books are available for loan. Call Marilyn at 315.303.2145 for pick up arrangements.

March is also available at many libraries.

This discussion group will be in-person at Opendore only with a limit of 20 participants. To reserve a space, please email event@howlandstonestore.org.

See also: https://humanitiesny.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/MakingSenseIntroductoryEssay.pdf