BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:Hillsborough County (HCPLC) X-WR-CALNAME:Hillsborough County (HCPLC) BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1d34150a-2e60-46bc-8f64-c5603433815e SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261014T011240Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241104T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241104T200000 SUMMARY:Book Discussion: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store LOCATION:Riverview Public Library\nRiverview Public Library X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Riverview Public Library;X -APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Riverview Public Library:geo:27.8556242,-82.31526 97 GEO:27.8556242;-82.3152697 DESCRIPTION:Copies of the book are available at the library\, or in our li brary catalog in e-audiobook or e-book formats. This program is for adults . Registration is not required. .\nhttps://hcplc.libnet.info/event/1162175 7 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In 1972\, when workers in Pottstown\, Penn sylvania\, were digging the foundations for a new development\, the last t hing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill\, the dilapidated neighborhood where immi grant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions a nd sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven &\; Earth Grocer y Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize hi m\, it was Chona and Nate Timblin\, the Black janitor at Moshe's theater a nd the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill\, who work ed together to keep the boy safe. As these characters' stories overlap and deepen\, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white\, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town's white establishment played in it\, McBride shows us that e ven in dark times\, it is love and communityheaven and earth--that sustain us.

\nhttps://hcplc.libnet.info/event/11621757 URL;VALUE=URI:https://hcplc.libnet.info/event/11621757 ATTACH:https://static.libnet.info/images/events/hcplc/HCPL_BK_Heaven_and_E arth_Grocery_Store.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR