America during the 1930s

This fall, the History Center in Tompkins County will offer a monthly adult reading group on the Great Depression.  This timely discussion series will provide an engaging forum for participants to explore both historical and contemporary connections with this year’s Community Read, The Grapes of Wrath, which is the group’s first book.

These discussion sessions will be held on
Thursday evenings, October 1st, 29thand November 19, from 7-8:30pm

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Each session will be facilitated by a scholar or teacher of this period.

Learn more about the causes and effects of the Great Depression in America, glimpse the experiences of everyday people, and find parallels with the present.  Readings will include 1930’s history, Depression-era letters, as well as period fiction and other selections.  Viewing historical photographs and textiles from the History Center archives will add a new dimension to our exploration of a pivotal time in national and local history.

Participants will receive personal copies of the selected texts.  Because group size is limited to fifteen participants, please pre-register for this program.

For more information or to register for this series, please contact:
Agata Okulicz-Kozaryn at the History Center, 273-8284, or e-mail admin@thehistorycenter.net. The History Center is located on the first floor of the Gateway Center at 401 East State Street in Ithaca, New York.