Selected Community Events
Summer Reading / Dig Into Reading
Nov 30, 0002 n/a
Jacksonville/Main Sneads Ferry Branch Richlands Branch Swansboro BranchDon't Miss These Free Family Fun Events!
Free KickOff Carnivals with DJ, Games, Face-painting (limited tickets), Popcorn & More!
Wendal Wandell "Digging Into the Past" presentation
Weekly activities for infants, toddlers, Pre-K, school age & teens at all branch locations
San Sculpting & Discovery Diving Presentation for Teens
Discovery Table & Sea Turtles w/ Hammocks Beach State Park
Fossils Dig Program
NC Aquarium visit with live snakes, turtles & alligators!
Prize Giveaways
Please register for Summer Reading online or at your local library branch.
910-455-7350
910-327-6471
910-324-5321
910-326-4888
www.onslowcountync.gov/library
The Swansboro Friends of the Library host “Still Cookin’: Food and Memory in Southern Culture”
May 5, 2012 1:00 pm.
Swansboro Branch LibraryThe Swansboro Friends of the Library host “Still Cookin’: Food and Memory in Southern Culture”
(Onslow County) The Swansboro Friends of the Library host “Still Cookin’: Food and Memory in Southern Culture” with Dr. Mary Ellis Gibson at the Swansboro Branch Library on Saturday, May 5th at 1:00 pm.
Some people say Southern culture will not disappear until Southern food is unrecognizable as distinct from that of other regions. Others say Southern cooking will not disappear until we quit talking about it. From Mary Randolph’s 1824 Virginia Housewife to the twentieth century, Southerners have written, argued, and reminisced about food. Dr. Mary Ellis Gibson traces the history of Southern foodtalk in cookbooks and in fiction, asking why Southerners are so obsessed with eating together and why they find it even more important to remember and talk about the meals they have shared.
The Swansboro Friends of the Library will bring Southern dishes they have prepared from The Swannsborough Bicentennial Cookbook and invite others who attend to bring a Southern dish to share. Attendees are also encouraged to bring old cookbooks to donate to the used book sale. All proceeds from the used book sale directly benefit the library.
Dr. Mary Ellis Gibson is an Elizabeth Rosenthal Excellence Professor, Department of English and the Program in Women's Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is strongly recommended. For more information, please visit www.onslowcountync.gov/library or call the Swansboro Branch Library at 910.326.4888.
This project is made possible by funding from the North Carolina Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit and affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
910.326.4888