First Wednesday at Brooks Library: Celebrating E.B. White

Drawing on stories, essays, poems, and letters, Dartmouth professor Nancy Jay Crumbine celebrates E.B. White’s versatility and enormous legacy. From Charlotte’s Web to his exquisite essays in The New Yorker, E.B. White remains the master’s master of elegant prose, sophisticated wit, and graceful irreverence.

On Wednesday, March 2, at 7 PM, in the library’s main room, Dartmouth professor Nancy Jay Crumbine celebrates White’s versatility and enormous legacy by drawing on his stories, essays, poems, and letters.

Underwriter: Merchants Bank

The Vermont Humanities Council’s First Wednesdays series is held on the first Wednesday of every month from October through May in nine communities statewide, featuring speakers of national and regional renown. Talks in Brattleboro are held at Brooks Memorial Library unless otherwise noted. The program is free, accessible to people with disabilities and open to the public.  The Vermont Department of Libraries is the statewide underwriter of First Wednesdays.

Brooks Memorial Library is sponsored by the Brattleboro Retreat; Brattleboro Camera Club; Brattleboro Savings & Loan Association; Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC; Friends of Brooks Memorial Library; New Chapter, Inc.; Vermont Country Store; and the Windham World Affairs Council of Vermont.
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