The Roxbury Library Association has received a Spring 2016 Adult Reading
and Discussion Grant from the New York Council for the Humanities. The R &
D Program hosted by the Roxbury Library will offer adult participants the
opportunity to explore the topic "'In Cold Blood': True Crime, an American
Genre" through a series of thematically linked nonfiction readings,
including Truman Capote's IN COLD BLOOD: A TRUE ACCOUNT OF A MULTIPLE
MURDER AND ITS CONSEQUENCES and TRUE CRIME: AN AMERICAN ANTHOLOGY/350
YEARS OF BRILLIANT WRITING ABOUT DARK DEEDS. The Spring 2016 NYCH R & D
Program at the Roxbury Library commemorates the 60th anniversary of the
publication of IN COLD BLOOD.
All six reading and discussion sessions will be on Saturdays from 10:00
a.m.-12:00 noon on the following dates: May 14, 2016; May 21, 2016; May
28, 2016; June 4, 2016; June 11, 2016; and June 18, 2016. The RLA will
acquire copies of NYCH R & D book selections from the Four County Library
System for R & D program participants' use. Roxbury resident Barry Seiler
will be the Scholar-Facilitator of the RLA NYCH Spring 2016 R & D Program.
To register for the Spring 2016 NYCH R & D Program at the Roxbury Library,
please contact Roxbury Library Director Dian Seiler or Roxbury Library
Clerk Helen Faraci at (607)-326-7901.
Located at 53742 State Highway 30, the Roxbury Library is directly
opposite the town's United Methodist Church on Main Street.
