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From Picketing TO Peace 2020 Program Catalog SDHC Staff: Welcome to the SDHC Ann Volin, Executive Director From the executive director [email protected] hanks for joining us to explore the they share ideas Jennifer Widman, Director of the Thumanities. Being in partnership with about the books, we Center for the Book you allows us to provide what I believe imagine that they’ll [email protected] is at the core of the humanities: time be excited, that they’ll Carolyn Marshall-Speakman, to listen and consider others’ ideas, have trouble sitting Office Manager time to read and discuss, time to mull still, and that they’ll [email protected] over your own thoughts for greater raise their hands and Ann Volin Deb Delaney, Program Assistant understanding. wave them wildly to [email protected] ask a question. They’ll Our One Book South Dakota, Unfollow, be as civil they are able to at eight and Melinda Berdanier, Project Coordinator offers a chance to enter a conversation nine years old, and we hope that they [email protected] with author Megan Phelps-Roper and take that ability to converse with them hear her think about why she changed as they grow up. Table of Contents in order to be more considerate of her fellow humans. We recently had our We also hope that you can be part Donate.............................................1 first book club set of Unfollow books of a Speakers Bureau event. Our returned to the office. All eight books scholars offer ways to interact with One Book, YR One Book.............2 were there, all in crisp condition, not a ideas that you might agree with — or Festival Previews..........................3 dog-eared page amongst the set — and have questions about. Choose from how very nice to have a resilient woman topics such as the Stavig letters, Oscar Grants..............................................4 venture out on a day that dawned at 20 Micheaux, or women’s suffrage. Maybe degrees below zero to make sure she you’ll get excited like our Young Readers Scholar Directory.....................5-15 returned the books on time. or maybe it will lead you to think a little Teachings of 2020 One Book.......16 more about others, like the book club She eagerly said how much they all members did. FY 2019 Annual Report enjoyed the book, and how it reminded them that life isn’t black and white — The Festival of Books October 2-4 in Stats, DA Awards...........................17 and how the author made them realize Brookings will offer ways to engage with Fundraising, One Book...............18 they had to think a little more about authors and readers — and ideas by others. the book load! Hear journalists discuss Vets, Young Readers....................19 civil discourse or poets share poems of Our Young Readers One Book, Bink and South Dakota. Thanks for checking out Festival Recap...............................20 Gollie: Three for One will provide second the South Dakota Humanities Council. Reading Memories, Award........21 and third graders an early chance to We can’t wait to meet with you, talk with talk about literature and its ideas. When you, and interact with you! Donors.......................................22-24 Board of Directors.......................25 From the board chair he South Dakota Humanities Council’s to each and every one About the SDHC Tvision is to lead statewide advocacy of you who encourage he South Dakota Humanities Council for the humanities, working with other students to read and T(SDHC), founded in 1972 in response partners to foster literary and civic engage in our Young to an act of Congress, is a 501(c)3 non- profit and the only cultural organization engagement. As chair of the board, I Readers Initiative and in the state whose sole mission is to am honored to be part of such a great the Young Readers deliver humanities programming to the organization that continues to provide Festival of Books. Whitney people of South Dakota. As a statewide tools for many in South Dakota to tell Rencountre advocate for the humanities, our mission their stories. We are inspired by the We’re also thankful is to celebrate literature, promote civil conversation, and tell the stories that attendance and engagement at our to all of our staff for their hard work define our state. We fulfill our mission South Dakota Festival of Books each and dedication to ensure that SDHC by supporting and promoting public year. We also are appreciative of the continues to reach our objectives each programming in the humanities like the efforts of all the programs created from year. We are especially appreciative of Speakers Bureau, providing grant funding the grants we award each year. all the volunteers that help promote our for community programs and research and discussion projects in our grants work throughout the state. program, and hosting reading and literary We hope folks around our state continue programs like the annual Festival of the efforts to celebrate literature, We encourage you to stay updated and Books, Young Readers Initiative and One promote civil conversation, and tell the engaged in our work by visiting our Book South Dakota. stories that define our state. Thank you website, sdhumanities.org. WWW.SDHUMANITIES.ORG | (605) 688-6113 DONATE | 1 Name: I would like my donation to be classified as: Street Address: S.D. Festival of Books & City: Young Readers Festival State: Zip: Unrestricted Gift Phone: Endowment Fund Other: Email: Credit Card: I would like to have a Donation amount: conversation about a planned CVC: Expiration: gift or putting SDHC in my will. Building Lifelong Memories for Readers of All Ages id you know your donations help bring Dthe biggest names in literature to South Dakota and bolster humanities programs in the state, supporting future readers and writers for generations to come? Since 2003, donor support has helped us feature Pulitzer Prize winners Timothy Egan, Marilynne Robinson, and Michael Dirda, National Book Award winners Louise Erdrich, Tim O’Brien, and many more at the South Dakota Festival of Books. The 2020 Festival will feature Megan Phelps-Roper, Melanie Benjamin, author of The Aviator’s Wife and Mistress of the Ritz, and Carson Vaughan, author of Zoo Nebraska. Help us add to this list of luminaries by making a Festival-specific donation today, or help secure the future of the South Dakota Humanities Council with a Legacy Pledge or gift to our Endowment or Unrestricted Fund. sdhumanities.org/give SDHC’s Donation Fund Options Festival of Books Unrestricted Gift Legacy Pledge Endowment Funds Help us continue to unite You can help where Many donors make a gift to Guarantee our organization’s readers and writers with SDHC needs it most. An SDHC in their will or estate future and donate to a donation to our annual unrestricted gift can be used planning. Mature stocks, endowment funds at Black Hills South Dakota Festival of for operations expenses, life insurance policies, and Area Community Foundation, Books and Young Readers programming and special IRA rollovers can easily be South Dakota Community Festival of Books. initiatives. processed by our Community Foundation and/or Sioux Falls Foundation partners. Area Community Foundation. 2 | ONE BOOK, YR ONE BOOK SOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL 2020 One Book SD Facilitates Valuable Conversations on Civil Discourse he granddaughter of infamous "I'm so, so and improving communication across Treligious zealot and Westboro Baptist excited to religious and political divides, Phelps- Church pastor share with the Roper has spent much of her life in Fred Phelps, beautiful people the national spotlight, from appearing Megan of this state on programs like The Tyra Banks Show Phelps-Roper how the power during her protest days to performing grew up of civil dialogue a Ted Talk with more than eight million protesting changed my life views after leaving the church. funerals for the better," before leaving she said. “We’re pleased to feature such an the Westboro inspiring story of national significance, Baptist Having been and we’re especially excited that it’s told Church featured on by one of our state’s own residents,” and most of her family behind in 2012 Good Morning said Jennifer Widman, director of the and eventually moving to Clark, where America and excerpted in People South Dakota Festival of Books. “This she lives with her husband Chad and Magazine, Unfollow is on the national book will lead to valuable conversations daughter Sølvi. radar. It received a starred review from about civil discourse and the miraculous Publishers Weekly, which said, “Phelps- ability of humans to change their minds Unfollow chronicles her life in Kansas Roper’s intelligence and compassion and habits. Exploring what it means from childhood through adulthood, shine throughout with electric prose.” to be human is the cornerstone of our her departure from the church during mission.” her mid-20s, and the unlikely series of Now an educator on topics related events that led her to South Dakota. to overcoming ideological extremism *READ MORE ABOUT UNFOLLOW ON P. 16.* Bink, Gollie and Alison McGhee: A ‘3 for 1’ Deal past Festival presenter, Alison AMcGhee returns to the Festival of Books in 2020 with two adorable — and famous — characters in tow. The 2020 Young Readers One Book Bink & Gollie: Alison McGhee leads at writing workshop at Three for One stars the irrepressible and the 2017 South Dakota Festival of Books. precocious Bink and Gollie, created by McGhee and Kate DiCamillo, a Newbery medal, a MacDowell residency and medalist and past Festival presenter. several American Library Association awards. A professor of creative writing Setting out from their super-deluxe at Metropolitan State University, McGhee tree house and powered by plenty of has three grown children and lives peanut butter (for Bink) and pancakes a semi-nomadic life in Minneapolis, (for Gollie), the girls share three Vermont and California.