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Reading-Retreat-Brochure *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 Paris 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 Hemingway 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: ( ) ________________________ Email: ________________________________ Credit Card: When Zelda Sayre marries VISA_____ MasterCard_____ Discover_____ Scott Fitzgerald and joins him in Jazz Age Paris, Account #______________________________ everything seems new and Expiration Date:___________CSC:__________ possible. Troubles, at first, seem to fade like morning Signature of card holder: mist. But not even Jay Gatsby’s parties go on _________________________________________ forever. Who is Zelda, other Piggott Lodging than the wife of a famous— Copper Heron Cottage: 870-634-6438 Checks and money orders payable to: sometimes infamous— The Inn at Piggott: 870-598-8888 HPMEC Reading Retreat husband? How can she forge (formerly the Downtown Inn) Mail with completed Registration Form to: her own identity while fighting her demons and Scott’s, Open Roads Motel: 870-598-5941 1021 W. Cherry Street too? With brilliant insight and imagination, Therese Anne Rose Dale Farm B&B: 870-634-7100 Piggott, AR 72454 Fowler brings us Zelda’s irresistible story as she herself *Amenities are also available in nearby Kennett, might have told it in Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald. For more information MO. contact: Dr. Adam Long, Director [email protected] .
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