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Every Friday, at 11:00 am, on the library’s YouTube Channel and Facebook Page, the library will stream a brand new recording of local thespian, Joseph Coté reading aloud selections from a wide variety of fascinating and entertaining books of fiction and non-fiction.
For March 21, Coté will read aloud from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s book Nature and Selected Essays.
Summary: An indispensable look at Emerson’s influential life philosophy.
Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe’s traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances.
His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather than domestication of, nature, and for a reliance on individual integrity, rather than on materialistic institutions, is echoed in many of the great American philosophical and literary works of his time and ours, and has given an impetus to modern political and social activism.
This most significant writing by Emerson provides the important backdrop to the society in which Emerson lived during his formative years and to which even brief returns today serve to calm the calamity.
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Contact Joseph at friday-explorations@usa.net