Announcing 2016’s book

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We are pleased to announce that this year’s book for One Book One Valley will be The Finest Hours:
The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman.

The book describes the simultaneous rescue missions for two oil tankers, each of which split in two during a severe winter storm off the coast of Cape Cod in 1952. It is a fast-paced, thrilling read, and it comes in a young reader’s version as well as the original adult edition. A feature film based on the book was released in theaters in January 2016.

Events will begin in September. Check back for updates!

Our final event for 2015

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composingJoin us on Wednesday, November 4 at 7 pm at Salyards Center for the Arts in Conway Village for “Composing a Further Life,” a talk by Mary Catherine Bateson.

As the culminating event in One Book, One Valley 2015, writer and cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, daughter of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, will discuss aging and wisdom as well as her parents and how their lives as public intellectuals influenced Bateson.

Bateson’s recent work has focused on the way social change affects the shape of lives and the task of life-long learning. Wisdom today is no longer characterized by withdrawal and passivity but with engagement with others and what Bateson calls “active wisdom.”