Pictured are Dennis Harrod and daughter Anna at the outskirts of Santiago de Compostela.
(Cazenovia, NY – April 2015) The Way, an inspiring and thoughtful film, will be shown in the Cazenovia Public Library Community Room on Wednesday, April 15 at 6:30 pm.
On the following Wednesday, April 22 at 7 p.m. a correlating presentation “On the Camino de Santiago” (The Way of St James) will be given by Dennis Harrod, local resident and Spanish Language Coordinator at Syracuse University.
Movie: April 15 at 7 p.m.
The Way is a powerful and inspirational story about family, friends, and the challenges we face while navigating this ever-changing and complicated world. Martin Sheen plays Tom, who comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France, to collect the remains of his adult son, killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking the Camino de Santiago.
Rather than return home, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage to honor his son’s desire to finish the journey. What Tom doesn’t plan on is the profound impact the journey will have on him. (iIMDb.com)
This film is rated PG-13 and runs for 121 minutes. As always, admission and popcorn are free.
Presentation: April 22 at 7 p.m.
Since the tenth century, pilgrims have walked to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain where the remains of St. James the Greater are believed to lie. Thousands of people continue walking the Camino de Santiago today for reasons ranging from the sacred to the profane.
During Harrod’s presentation “On the Camino de Santiago,” he will relate his experiences when he walked part of the route with his daughter Anna, then a freshman in college. It was an experience that changed both their lives.
All events at the Cazenovia Public Library are free and open to the public.
Open Book Clubs meets April 15
The “Open Afternoon Book Club” for adults at the Cazenovia Public Library meets every third Wednesday at 1 p.m. The “Open Evening Book Club” meets at 7:00 pm, also in the Story Garden on April 15.
Open Afternoon Book Club: One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
Described as “a clever tale of America’s coming of age,” the summer of 1927 began with Charles Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic and Babe Ruth closing in on the home run record. In Newark, New Jersey, Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelly sat atop a flagpole for twelve days, and in Chicago, the gangster Al Capone was tightening his grip on bootlegging. The first true “talking picture,” Al Jolson’s The Jazz Singer, was filmed, forever changing the motion picture industry.
All this and much, much more transpired in the year Americans attempted and accomplished outsized things—and when the twentieth century truly became the American century. One Summer transforms it all into narrative nonfiction of the highest order. (Amazon.com)
Open Evening Book Club: River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candace Millard
At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.
After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Along the way, he and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships—losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, enduring starvation, Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks.
From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, The River of Doubt is Candice Millard’s dazzling debut. (Amazon.com)
The Open Book Clubs are free and open to the public. Books are available at the circulation desk and all are welcome.
For more information about the book clubs or other events at the Cazenovia Public Library, call 655-9322 or visit www.cazenoviapubliclibrary.org.