One Book, One Windsor Kick-off Celebration

The Town of Windsor’s Human Relations Commission announces that the book our community will read this year for the “One Book, One Windsor” program is Kathryn Stockett’s The Help.  We invite you to the kick-off on Wednesday, March 28th at 7 p.m. at Windsor Historical Society at 96 Palisado Avenue (Route 159) in Windsor.  

 Join us for delicious pecan tarts, sweet tea, conversation, and historical knowledge that deepen your understanding of The Help.   The program will highlight issues in the civil rights era that shaped the book’s characters, and the lives of domestic workers and their employers in this country.  This is a book which engenders strong emotions in readers, both positive and negative.  Here is your chance to explore your own feelings about the book and discuss them with your neighbors, whether you are reading it for the first time or re-reading.  

 At the kick off, you may purchase a copy of the book and pick up a list of reading and discussion questions.  This program will be followed by two book discussion sessions:  Wednesday, April 11th at 1:30 p.m. in the Windsor Senior Center at 599 Matianuck Avenue and Wednesday, April 25th at 7 p.m. at the Windsor Art Center at 40 Mechanic Street; a showing of the movie at Windsor Public Library on May 25th at 6:00 pm and a culminating panel discussion in June featuring a discussion of race and domestic work in the Civil Rights era. Welcome to the conversation!  To keep up to date with events please visit our website at "http://www.onebookonewindsor.com."  For more information contact Diane McDougald at (860) 285-1984.