{"id":95115,"date":"2018-06-12T17:24:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T21:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=95115"},"modified":"2018-06-12T10:26:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T14:26:50","slug":"oneida-public-library-news-cathers-one-of-ours-is-this-months-great-war-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=95115","title":{"rendered":"Oneida Public Library news: Cather’s ‘One of Ours’ is this month’s Great War book"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Cather’s ‘One of Ours’ is this month’s Great War book<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this month\u2019s selection of great books about the Great War, Dr. Roxanna Pisiak, humanities professor at Morrisville State College, will lead the discussion\u00a0Thursday, June 21, at 7 p.m.<\/span>\u00a0on Willa Cather\u2019s 1923 Pulitzer Prize winning novel \u201cOne of Ours.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cather\u2019s novel chronicles the youth and maturing of a Nebraska farmer, Claude Wheeler, as he struggles with farming, love and a disappointing marriage. Claude\u2019s salvation, as it was for many young Americans of the time, was the United States\u2019 entry in April 1917 in the great European war. Cather\u2019s descriptions of Claude\u2019s army basic training, shipping to Europe and brutal life on the ravaged French Front stil remain today richly evocative of young Americans\u2019 initiation into the \u201cwar to end all wars.\u201d<\/p>\n

The OPL\u2019s Great War and Writings from the Front discussion series is one way the library is marking the centenary of America\u2019s involvement in World War I. The discussion leaders for the five monthly sessions are Dr. Pisiak and the OPL\u2019s Assistant Director Tom Murray.<\/p>\n

Future sessions will discuss William March\u2019s \u201cCompany K\u201d (July 19<\/span>), a much acclaimed novel at its 1933 publication in which the individual soldiers in an actual U.S. Marines company tell their stories from training camp to the worst fighting at the French Front in 1918; Mary Borden\u2019s autobiographical stories about an American nurse\u2019s experiences at the Front as collected in \u201cThe Forbidden Zone\u201d (August 16<\/span>); and Siegfried Sassoon\u2019s autobiographical novel \u201cMemoirs of an Infantry Officer,\u00a0\u00a0(September 20<\/span>).<\/p>\n

Copies of Cather\u2019s \u201cOne of Ours\u201d are available at the OPL circulation desk for those who register for the discussion\u00a0June 21<\/span>. For more information, stop by the Oneida Library,\u00a0220 Broad St<\/a>., or call (315) 363-3050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cather’s ‘One of Ours’ is this month’s Great War book In this month\u2019s selection of great books about the Great War, Dr. Roxanna Pisiak, humanities professor at Morrisville State College, will lead the discussion\u00a0Thursday, June 21, at 7 p.m.\u00a0on Willa Cather\u2019s 1923 Pulitzer Prize winning novel \u201cOne of Ours.\u201d Cather\u2019s novel chronicles the youth and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95116,"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_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-95115","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-oK7","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/willa-cather-one-of-ours.jpeg?fit=1333%2C2000&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95115","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=95115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}