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<div>Per Carol's reminder, our discussion of <span style="font-style: italic;">Elmer Gantry</span> will be from 2:30-4:30 tomorrow (Sat., 8/15/20).</div>
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<div>As the weather should be excellent for an outside event, <span style="text-decoration-line: underline; color: red; font-weight: bold;">we will be meeting in person</span> rather than via Zoom.</div>
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<div>Location: Town Center Park, Hamden</div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2761 Dixwell Ave, Hamden, CT 06518</span><br>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The park extends from the south boundary of the Hamden Main Library, </span></font><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;">2901 Dixwell Ave, Hamden.</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Park at the library, south end.</span> You'll see the large barn that is in the park. Meet there and we will find a nicely shaded spot.</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;">We will sit outside - socially distanced. You should bring:</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;">- Water (or any other beverage you wish to bring) and snacks</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;">Restrooms (port-o-potties - they were well-cleaned when we checked this location out last month) are in the (library) parking lot.</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;">If you have any other questions, call or text me on my cell phone: (860) 965-4029.</span></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Looking forward to seeing everyone <span style="text-decoration-line: underline;">in person</span>.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kevin</span></font></div>
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From: Carol Ritter <critter80@hotmail.com><br>
To: hac-announce@cthumanist.org <hac-announce@cthumanist.org><br>
Sent: Thu, Aug 13, 2020 9:06 pm<br>
Subject: [Hac-announce] Book Discussion Reminder: Elmer Gantry, this Saturday 2:30<br>
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Our book for August is "Elmer Gantry" by Nobel Prize-winning author Sinclair Lewis.<br>
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Note: We are working to determine if there is a suitable outdoor location with sufficient social distancing where we can hold the discussion. We will post if that is the case. Otherwise, or in the case of inclement weather, the discussion will be held via the
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>From Amazon:<br>
Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, "Elmer Gantry" scandalized readers when it was first published, causing Sinclair Lewis to be “invited” to a jail cell in New Hampshire and to his own lynching in Virginia. His portrait of a golden-tongued
evangelist who rises to power within his church—a saver of souls who lives a life of duplicity, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgence—is also the record of a period, a reign of grotesque vulgarity, which but for Lewis would have left no trace of itself.
"Elmer Gantry" has been called the greatest, most vital, and most penetrating study of hypocrisy that has been written since the works of Voltaire.<br>
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“[Sinclair Lewis’s] satiric indictment of fundamentalist religion that caused an uproar upon its publication in 1927. The title character of Elmer Gantry starts out as a greedy, shallow, philandering Baptist minister, turns to evangelism, and eventually becomes
the leader of a large Methodist congregation. Throughout the novel Gantry encounters fellow religious hypocrites [and although] he is often exposed as a fraud, Gantry is never fully discredited. – The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature</div>
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