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Exhibits and Programs during March 2012

Wednesday, March 28, 6:30 p.m. (reception) 8:30 p.m. (program) - Friends of the UNCG Libraries Annual Dinner - A Celebration of Blues Music with Bill Ferris and Logie Meachum . Elliott University Center. Call the UNCG Box Office at 336-334-4849 for tickets. Fee. Exhibit (through April 2): “What They Were Wearing While They Were Reading,” Jackson Library 1st Floor. Exhibit (through March 31): "Windows to the World: The Immortal Works of Charles Dickens." Hodges Reading Room, Jackson Library, 2nd Floor. Wednesday, March 21, 3:30 pm-- “Dickens, Our Contemporary,” presented by Professor Eileen Gillooly, Associate Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, sponsored by the Atlantic World Research Network, Hodges Special Collections Reading Room, Jackson Library. Free.

Celebrate Blues Music on March 28 to support the University Libraries

You are invited to join us for the Friends of the UNCG Libraries annual dinner on March 28, when we will welcome Dr. William R. Ferris(above) and Mr. Logie Meachum(below) in a celebration of blues music to support the University Libraries at UNCG. For more, see the University's news release .

Friends of the UNCG Libraries Annual Dinner

Celebrate the blues and support the University Libraries at UNCG

Celebrate the blues! That’s the theme of the Friends of the UNCG Libraries annual dinner coming up on March 28, 2012 at the Elliott University Center on the UNCG campus. That evening, the Friends will welcome William R. Ferris and Lorenzo (Logie) Meachum to the stage for an evening focusing on blues music. Ferris is a widely recognized leader in Southern studies, African American music and folklore, who has written or edited ten books and created fifteen documentary films. His book Give My Poor Heart Ease:Voices of the Mississippi Blues will be the basis of his presentation and will be featured at the book signing which follows. The former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and now teaching at UNC Chapel Hill, Ferris has conducted thousands of interviews with musicians ranging from the famous (B.B. King) to the unrecognized (Parchman Penitentiary inmates working in the fields). Meachum, a member of the Board of Directors of the Friends of the UNCG Libraries, is a ...