Banned Book Readout

Monday, September 28
Start Time: 7:00 PM

At the Hamilton Public Library's Community Room.  Celebrate your freedom to read!  Join us for a reading of banned books with members of the local communities, Colgate, and the MidYork Library System.  Discussion to follow.  Sponsored by the Hamilton Public Library, and the Colgate Bookstore.

Over the past eight years, American libraries were faced with 3,736 challenges to the books in their collections.  Celebrating the freedom to read, Banned Book Week is observed during the last week of September each year.  Observed since 1982, this annual American Library Association event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted.

Karen Fauls-Traynor, Library Director of the Sullivan Free Library in Chittenango and the Bridgeport Library, will be opening the program with an overview of Banned Books Week.

Among this year's readers are:
 * Anne & Gretchen Clauss, President, Hamilton Public Library Board & her daughter, reading from The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron and Matt Phelan

 * Elaine Connelly, Hamilton Public Library, reading from The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

 * Nancy Heck, Hamilton resident, reading from The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

 * David Hollis, Radio Free Hamilton, reading from Howl by Allen Ginsberg

 * Noor Khan, Colgate University faculty, reading from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

 * Sue McVaugh, mayor of Hamilton, reading from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

 * Andrea Pura, first-year Colgate student, reading from The Giver by Lois Lowry

 * Kate Reynolds, Colgate Bookstore, reading from Lush by Natasha Friend

 * Phoebe Rotter, HCS senior, reading from Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison

 * Izzy Schaller, HCS middle-school student, reading from Forever by Judy Blume

 * Pat Weaver, first-year Colgate student, reading from A Separate Peace by John Knowles

 * Susan Weitz, Colgate University staff, reading from Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

 * Jane Welsh, Fortnightly Club, reading from Beloved by Toni Morrison

 * Stephanie Zanowic, Colgate junior, reading from Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling