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*Price includes a snack on Friday, all meals Here’s How It Works on Saturday, and breakfast on Sunday. 1. When you sign-up for the retreat, we will send you three novels. *Price also includes all activities, and the 2. Read the three novels at your cost of the books, which we will send to you convenience over the summer. after you register.

3. Join us in September for a weekend of discussion and fun based on the novels. Not Able to Join Us All Weekend? Then, why don’t you join us for the dinner party? It will be a great time. We will start the evening at 6 PM with Schedule for the Retreat hors d’oeuvre, followed by a banquet Friday (Sept. 5) dinner on the lawn. Come wearing your 7-10 PM—Screening and discussion of Midnight In finest 1920s costume and enjoy an evening of great food, music, and Saturday (Sept. 6) fun. Proceeds go to the HP Museum 10-10:30 AM—Coffee and donuts Foundation. Tickets for dinner are in- 10:30-12:30—Discussion of The Great Gatsby 12:30-1:30—Lunch cluded for retreat participants and are 1:30-3:30—Discussion of Z: A Novel of Zelda $35 for other guests. Fitzgerald 3:30-4:30—Learn the Charleston (tentative) 4:30-6—Break (on your own) 6-7—Hors d’Oeuvre “If you are lucky enough to have lived in 7-9—1920s Dinner Party (wear your finest 1920s clothes) Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with Sunday (Sept. 7) you, for Paris is a moveable feast. 10-10:30 AM—Coffee and donuts -Ernest 10:30-12:30—Discussion of A Moveable Feast Hemingway-Pfeiffer The Books Published posthumously in Fall Reading Retreat 1964, A Moveable Feast September 5-7, 2013 remains one of Ernest Registration is $100 by Sept. 1. There is a $25 dollar The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Hemingway’s most enduring late registration fee for registrations after Sept. 1. Fitzgerald’s third book, works. Widely celebrated and Partial refund of $65 if canceled by Sept. 5. Please stands as the supreme debated by critics and readers register as soon as possible and make lodging achievement of his career. everywhere, the restored reservations, as the retreat is limited to 16 This exemplary novel of the edition of A Moveable Feast participants. Jazz Age has been acclaimed brilliantly evokes the _____ Full Retreat Registration ($100) by generations of readers. exuberant mood of Paris after The story of the fabulously World War I and the unbridled _____ Dinner Only ($35) wealthy Jay Gatsby and his creativity and unquenchable love for the beautiful Daisy enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized. Name: ______Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time Address: ______when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,” it is an exquisitely City, State, Zip: ______crafted tale of America in the 1920s. Phone: ( ) ______

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