{"id":84757,"date":"2017-09-20T21:30:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T01:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=84757"},"modified":"2017-09-20T16:37:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T20:37:36","slug":"opls-community-read-focuses-on-invention-of-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=84757","title":{"rendered":"OPL\u2019s community read focuses on \u2018Invention of Wings\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In tandem with other Madison County libraries, Onedia Public Library is participating in a county-wide read of Sue Monk Kidd\u2019s novel \u201cThe Invention of Wings\u201d with a discussion of the book\u00a0Thursday, October 12<\/span>, at\u00a07:00 p.m.<\/span>\u00a0that will be led by Dr. Roxanna Pisiak, a professor of humanities at Morrisville State College.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Invention of Wings\u201d tells the tale of the real-life Sarah Grimke, born in a slave-owning family in South Carolina, who along with her sister Angelina became an outspoken advocate of abolitionism before the Civil War and subsequently of women\u2019s rights. The novel was chosen by county librarians to help mark the Centennial of Women\u2019s Suffrage in New York State.<\/p>\n

Dr.\u00a0Pisiak has been teaching humanities courses at Morrisville for over 20 years. Her special areas of expertise include American literature and culture, film and visual communication. She received the S.U.N.Y. Chancellor\u2019s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2009 and Morrisville\u2019s Distinguished Faculty Award in 2005.<\/p>\n

Pisiak was last at the OPL to lecture on \u201cThe 19th-CenturyUpstate Response to Women\u2019s Suffrage\u201d in June. She has also appeared at the OPL as the historical commentator and narrator in \u201cChildren at Work: Tales of Madison County Childhood\u201d in March 2006 and in \u201cScott and Zelda: Genius, Love and Madness in the Jazz Age\u201d in February 2003.<\/p>\n

Thanks to a grant from Humanities New York in support of the OPL\u2019s centennial celebration of women\u2019s suffrage, a limited number of copies of \u201cThe Invention of Wings\u201d is available at the OPL for those who sign up to participate in the\u00a0October 12<\/span>\u00a0discussion.<\/p>\n

For more information, stop by the Oneida Library,\u00a0220 Broad St<\/a>., or call\u00a0(315) 363-3050<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In tandem with other Madison County libraries, Onedia Public Library is participating in a county-wide read of Sue Monk Kidd\u2019s novel \u201cThe Invention of Wings\u201d with a discussion of the book\u00a0Thursday, October 12, at\u00a07:00 p.m.\u00a0that will be led by Dr. Roxanna Pisiak, a professor of humanities at Morrisville State College. \u201cThe Invention of Wings\u201d tells […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-libraries","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-m33","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/oneida-public-library.jpg?fit=300%2C226&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}