SKYCTC to Host Kentucky Reads Book Discussion on The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson

SKYCTC will Host Kentucky Reads Book Discussion on The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson, October 3, 12:20-1:10PM at the following locations: SKM-SKYCAST room L131 (Main Campus), SKM SKYCAST room E106 (Main Campus), SKG SKYCAST room E106 (Glasgow Campus), SKF SKYCAST room 256 (Franklin Cener) or online via Microsoft Teams at: (online Microsoft Teams link).

Marianne Worthington, poet, editor, and educator living in southeastern Kentucky will lead this discussion. Marianne is the co-founder of the online literary magazine Still: The Journal  and serves as its poetry editor. 

Attendance is free and all are invited to attend. SKYCTC has a limited number of free copies of the book for those planning to attend. Contact the SKYCTC Learning Commons at 270-901-1171 to claim your free copy.

Kentucky Humanities has selected Kim Michele Richardson’s The Book Woman’s Daughter for its 2023 Kentucky Reads. The novel will be at the center of statewide conversations on the coming of age, the importance of family, literacy, access to education, and the dangers of stereotyping.

Honey Lovett—daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian—and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. When her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library route, Honey delivers books to the remote hollers of Appalachia. But the route can be treacherous, and some people aren't as keen to let a woman pave her own way.

Kim Michele Richardson is a New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today bestselling author. She has written five works of historical fiction, and a bestselling memoir. Her critically acclaimed novel, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek earned a 2020 PBS Reader’s Choice, 2019 LibraryReads Best Book, Indie Next, SIBA, Forbes Best Historical Novel, Book-A-Million Best Fiction, and is an Oprah's Buzziest Books pick and a Women’s National Book Association Great Group Reads selection. Kim Michele lives with her family in Kentucky and is the founder of Shy Rabbit.

Other related events planned are: 

• Kentucky Reads at SKYCTC Music Activity with Dr. John Thomerson: Murder Shows and Your New Prose October 4, 12:30-1:00PM: In person and online in Teams, SKM-SKYCAST L131 (Main), SKM SKYCAST E106 (Main), SKG SKYCAST E106 (Glasgow), SKF SKYCAST 256 (Franklin) Online at: (Microsoft Teams Link)
   
  Have you wondered how people shared true crime stories before TV and podcasts? Come learn about the long tradition of murder ballads in Appalachian music and contribute lyrics to a new murder ballad we’ll write together!  
  
  
• Kentucky Reads at SKYCTC Music Activity with Dr. John Thomerson: Songs My Grandma Sang - October 18, 12:30-1:00PM: In person and online in Teams, SKM-SKYCAST L131 (Main), SKM SKYCAST E106 (Main), SKG SKYCAST E106 (Glasgow), SKF SKYCAST 256 (Franklin) 
  (Microsoft Teams Link)
  
  Appalachian music survives as one generation shares it with another. Come hear and sing songs your kinfolk know. Feel free to come with a recommendation of a song that’s near and dear to your heart! 
  
  
• Kentucky Reads at SKYCTC Music Activity with Dr. John Thomerson: Badass Women of Bluegrass
  November 1, 12:30-1:00PM: In person and online in Teams, SKM-SKYCAST L131 (Main), SKM SKYCAST E106 (Main), SKG SKYCAST E106 (Glasgow), SKF SKYCAST 256 (Franklin) or online via Microsoft Teams at: (Microsoft Teams Link)
  
  Women were largely written out of bluegrass  history, which is a dang shame because they made incredible contributions to this music. Come hear great female Appalachian musicians like Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard, Jean Ritchie, Loretta Lynn, Elizabeth Cotton, Rhiannon Giddens, and more.
  
  
• Kentucky Reads at SKYCTC Music Activity with Dr. John Thomerson: Appalachian Music, Global Influences
  November 15, 12:30-1:00PM: In person and online in Teams, SKM-SKYCAST L131 (Main), SKM SKYCAST E106 (Main), SKG SKYCAST E106 (Glasgow), SKF SKYCAST 256 (Franklin) or online via Microsoft Teams at: (Microsoft Teams Link)
  
  While we associate Appalachian music with the hills and hollers of Kentucky, this music grew from deep roots in several world cultures. Come hear how African music influenced the banjo, how the structures of old-time music developed from folk songs from the British Isles, and why there’s an enormous bluegrass scene in Japan! 
  
  
• Kentucky Reads at SKYCTC Lecture with Dr. Lanphier and Professor Ward: Sociological and Psychological Aspects of The Bookwoman’s Daughter
  November 21, 12:30-1:00PM: in person at, SKM-SKYCAST L131 (Main Campus), SKM SKYCAST E106 (Main), SKG SKYCAST E106 (Glasgow), SKF SKYCAST 256 (Franklin) or online via Microsoft Teams at: (Microsoft Teams Link)

Kentucky Humanities is a non-profit Kentucky corporation affiliated with the National Endowment for the Humanities. For information about Kentucky Humanities’ programs and services, including Kentucky Reads, visit kyhumanities.org. 

This program was funded in part by Kentucky Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Copies of the book made available through the generous donation of Service One Credit Union.