Fall 2012 SEMESTER: We are excited to announce our Common Reading will be the essay collectionThe Most They Ever Had by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Rick Bragg. The book relates, with humor and heartache, the true stories of workers from a now closed-down Alabama cotton mill.
We are honored to announce that Mr. Bragg will be at OCTC for a reading this fall - date TBA. Mr. Bragg will appear in part through the help of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. The campus and the public are invited.
Other events in the fall will be provided related to the book's "working class" theme. More details will be announced here and on the OCTC Common Reading Facebook page.
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LIBRARY DISPLAY: Each semester the OCTC main campus Library (LRC/LRE building) has a display of materials related to the book, writer, and theme of each Common Reading. Check it out!
LEND & LEAVE BOOKSHELF: In the LRC, upstairs near the art gallery, is a display of books that you may take and keep, take and pass on, or take and return. You may also bring some used books to leave for others.
MISSION STATEMENT: What is the Common Reading? Each semester a book is selected as OCTC’s Common Reading, with the idea that all participants could read the same material and have common ground for new discussions and mutual interests. While the book choices vary in many ways (different genres, time-periods, subject matters) they are chosen with the intention of expanding the knowledge and perspectives of readers. The background of the selected writers is diverse; however, many Kentucky and regional writers are also included in order to help us appreciate local talent, acknowledge shared concerns, and celebrate our common heritage. All OCTC students, staff, faculty, and interested community members are invited and encouraged to participate by reading the books and attending the related presentations each semester.