Library Book Club
We're highlighting older books that are listed as “must-reads” and are chosen (or resurrected) to celebrate the birthdays of their authors.
Keeping It Reel
Come on out and bring a friend!
PBS - Cathedral
1:00 p.m. on April 5, 2025
Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book.
Using a combination of spectacular location sequences and cinema-quality animation, the program surveys France's most famous churches. Travel back to 1214 to explore the design of Notre Dame de Beaulieu, a representative Gothic cathedral. The program tells period tales revealing fascinating stories of life and death, faith and despair, prosperity, and intrigue.
Location: Wilkes County Public Library North Wilkesboro, NC
Contact:
Suzanne Manners
336-838-2818 ext 241.
Currently Reading
Join us for a conversation about
The Cathedral
at noon on April 10 in the Traphill Branch Library
Coming to the readers in the late sixties, the work immediately found itself in a whirlpool of passions, because it was for the first time in domestic literature that the call for spiritual purification and catholicity, condemnation of national forgetfulness, degenerate careerism and poaching was powerfully and openly voiced. Official circles perceived Honchar's book sharply negatively, because the novel, rejecting the dogmatism of class ideas, affirmed universal, humanistic values.
The Cathedral is a philosophical novel that examines important social and national issues in terms of the eternal humanistic truths that human civilization must be guided by in order to avoid destruction and annihilation.