Jan 28, 2005
 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Contact:  Karen Sloan
                          (239) 461-2914
                          e-mail: ksloan@leegov.com

Lee County Library System's "One Book, One Community" Reading and Discussion Program

Fort Myers, FL (January 28, 2005)  Lee County Library System (LCLS) has begun a series of events related to its One Book, One Community: Lee County Reads project.

One Book, One Community: Lee County Reads is a countywide reading and discussion program that encourages all residents to read the same book at the same time to create a countywide book club.  Lee County Library System Director Cynthia Cobb has announced the selection for LCLS' first One Book, One Community program, as "A Land Remembered" by Patrick D. Smith.

This Pulitzer Prize nominated story follows three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier in the 1850s to rise from a dirt -poor "Cracker" life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons in the 1960s. Copies of the book are available in several formats at your Lee County Library System and local bookstores. Readers may also view the first four chapters online at the Lee County Library System website www.lee-county.com/library. Click on One Book One Community.

"We have book discussions and special events scheduled from now through March 19," states Karen Sloan, Library Development Specialist and coordinator of the project.  There are a terrific variety of events as well as special discounts and programs from our community partners."
 

One Book, One Community highlights include:

Issues Forum: Growth and the Environment

2 p.m. Thursday, February 3

South County Regional Library

A panel discussion on growth and the environment in Lee County and how it relates to growth issues in "A Land Remembered." The event will be broadcast as a segment of Gulf Coast Live on WGCU 90.1 FM.  This event is open to the public, but space is limited.  Call (239) 390-3200 to register.

Book discussions are also scheduled at Lee County Library system locations from now through March. For locations and schedules, please call the Lee County Library System at 239-479-INFO (4636) or visit the Lee County Library System online at www.lee-county.com/library.

Partner programs include events at the Calusa Nature Center and Edison Ford Winter Estates. These partners, as well as Imaginarium and The Southwest Florida Museum of History, will be offering discounted admissions from now through March 19 to people who present a book mark for One Book, One Community: Lee County Reads "A Land Remembered."

For more information, please call the Lee County Library System at 239-470-INFO (4636) or visit us online at www.lee-county.com/library.

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