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Little Lecture - A Place Called Solid: West Virginia Re-Imagined in the Novel

WVHC Event

Location/County: Charleston, Kanawha
March 06, 2016

Glenn Taylor is among West Virginia’s most prominent contemporary authors. His book The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Taylor’s writing is rooted in West Virginia with Trenchmouth Taggart, The Marrowbone Marble Company, and A Hanging at Cinder Bottom all set in the Mountain State. He will discuss the potential of the novel in helping re-tool the public consciousness toward a more complex understanding of our state and its people.

The Little Lectures are informal programs featuring speakers on a variety of topics. Programs are presented on Sunday afternoons at 2:00 p.m. at our headquarters located at 1310 Kanawha Boulevard, East, Charleston, in the parlor of MacFarland-Hubbard House.

Admission is $10. Call 304-346-8500 to confirm seating.

Little Lecture Series is a project of the West Virginia Humanities Council.