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Tuesday
8 April
2003
8:00–9:30 pm
Free Library of
Philadelphia
Montgomery
Auditorium
Free. Public invited
No tickets required
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The
Penn Humanities Forum continues its
Year of the Book with...
ONE
BOOK, ONE PHILADELPHIA
Town Forum
celebrating
Lorene Cary's The Price of a Child
Sponsored by the Free Library of Philadelphia
and the Penn Humanities Forum of the University of Pennsylvania
- Special Guests
John
F. Street, Mayor, City of Philadelphia
Elliot Shelkrot, President and Director,
Free Library of Philadelphia
Judith
Rodin, President, University of Pennsylvania
Lorene
Cary, Author; Senior Lecturer, English, University of Pennsylvania;
Founder, Art Sanctuary
Houston
A. Baker, Susan Fox Beischer & George D. Beischer Arts
& Sciences Professor of English and Professor of African and African
American Studies, Duke University
Wendy
Steiner, Director, Penn Humanities Forum and Richard L.
Fisher Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia's city-wide celebration
of reading continues...
One Book, One Philadelphia is a project
of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Office of the Mayor, and many
community partners.
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Bookmarks
About Lorene
Cary
Also here...
The
story that inspired
The Price of a Child
More on the 1855 rescue
of
Jane Johnson
Philadelphia Area
Consortium of Special
Collections Libraries
(PACSCL)
resources
NOTE
Lorene Cary honored with
the 2003 Philadelphia Award in city ceremony on June 12, 2003.
Established in 1921 by Edward W. Bok, the Philadelphia Award is given
annually to a citizen of the Philadelphia region who, during the preceding
year, acted and served on behalf of the best interests of the community.
Past
recipients have included Mayor John Street, Gov. Ed Rendell, Dr. Bernard
C. Watson, Elaine Brown and the late Rev. Paul M. Washington.
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