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SUMMARY:Coffee and Conversation
LOCATION:Nordonia Hills Branch Library\nNordonia Hills Branch Library
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DESCRIPTION:Love books? Join our discussion of both fiction and nonfiction
  titles. Books will be available at the branch one month before the discus
 sion. Register online\, in person\, or by phone at 330.467.8595..\nhttps:/
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p style="text-align: left\;">Join us this mo
 nth when we'll be discussing <strong>"All That She Carried"</strong> by Ti
 ya Miles</p>\n<p style="text-align: left\;"><img src="https://akronlibrary
 .libnet.info/frontend-images/editor/akronlibrary/carried.jpg" width="132" 
 height="200" alt="" /></p>\n<p style="text-align: left\;">Sitting in the S
 mithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is a 
 rough cotton bag called "Ashley's Sack\," embroidered with just a handful 
 of words&nbsp\;that&nbsp\;evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of lov
 e passed down through generations.</p>\n<p style="text-align: left\;">In 1
 850s South Carolina\, just before nine-year-old Ashley was sold\, her moth
 er\, Rose\, gave her a sack filled with just a few things as a token of he
 r love. Decades later\, Ashley's granddaughter\, Ruth\, embroidered this h
 istory on the bag--including Rose's message&nbsp\;that&nbsp\;"It be filled
  with my Love always." Historian Tiya Miles carefully follows faint archiv
 al traces back to Charleston to find Rose in the kitchen\, where&nbsp\;she
 &nbsp\;may have packed the sack for Ashley.</p>\n<p style="text-align: lef
 t\;">From Rose's last resourceful gift to her daughter\, Miles then follow
 s the paths their lives and the lives of so many like them took to write a
  unique\, innovative history of the lived experience of slavery in the Uni
 ted States. The contents of the sack--a tattered dress\, handfuls of pecan
 s\, a braid of hair\, "my Love always"--speak volumes and open up a window
  on Rose and Ashley's world. As&nbsp\;she&nbsp\;follows Ashley's journey\,
  Miles metaphorically "unpacks" the sack\, deepening its emotional resonan
 ce and revealing the meanings and significance of everything it contained.
  These include the story of enslaved labor's role in the cotton trade and 
 apparel crafts and the rougher cotton "negro cloth"&nbsp\;that&nbsp\;was l
 eft for enslaved people to wear\; the role of the pecan in nutrition\, sur
 vival\, and southern culture\; the significance of hair to Black women and
  of locks of hair in the nineteenth century\; and an exploration of Black 
 mothers' love and the place of emotion in history.</p>\nhttps://akronlibra
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