The Old City Park Book Club
& The Junior Historian
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'Fiction and Non-Fiction with a Texas twist'

   In 2005, changes are coming to the Old City Park Book Club and now is the perfect time to join us!  Starting in January, the Book Club is moving!  We�ll still hold it on the Fourth Tuesday of every other month at 6:00 pm.  However, the SMU Bookstore (3060 Mockingbird Lane) has agreed to host us.  It�s centrally located, right off of I-75, and has a Starbucks inside.  So, grab a cup of coffee and a good book and join us! 

Please RSVP to Melissa Prycer at 214-413-3671 or via email.
 

Tuesday, June 28                      6:00 pm
SMU Bookstore
Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad  by Jacqueline Tobin
Hidden in Plain View documents a journey of discovery, linking oral tradition stories to other forms of hidden communication including history books, codes, and songs. Quilts with specific symbols and stitchery patterns, could be laid out to air without arousing suspicion, and gave slaves directions for their escape North.

Tuesday, August 23                  6:00 pm
SMU Bookstore
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when "society" had rules as rigid as any in history.

Tuesday, October 25                6:00 pm
SMU Bookstore
The Road to Wellville by T. C. Boyle
Will Lightbody is a man with a stomach ailment whose only sin is loving his wife, Eleanor, too much.  Eleanor is a health nut of the first stripe, and when in 1907, she journeys to Dr. John Harvey Kellog�s infamous Battle Creek spa to live out the Vegetarian ethos, poor Will goes too.  So begins Boyle�s wickedly comic look at turn-of-the-century fanatics in search of the pill to prolong their lives�or the profit to be had from manufacturing it.

 

Previously read books -

  •  The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
    by Erik Larson

  •  Cane River by Lalita Tademy

  •  They Came to Stay: The Story of the Jews of Dallas 1870-1997 by Rose Biderman

  •  Hill Country by Janice Woods Windle

  •  Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz

  •  Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong by James W. Loewen.

  •  State Fair by Phil Stong.

  • Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression turned Mexicans into Americans by Ben Johnson.

  • A Woman of Independent Means by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

  • Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire by Don Graham

  • From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart:  A Cultural History of Domestic Advice by Sarah A. Leavitt.

  • Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America by Linda Lawrence Hunt and Sue Armitage

The Junior Historian Book Club

Contact Program Manager, Melissa Prycer, for more information at 214.413.3671 or via email.  Click here for more information about the Junior Historian Program.
 

Previously read books -

  • Fair Weather by Richard Peck
  • Holes by Louis Sachar
  • All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

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