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Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
Monday, April 15 through Friday, May 17, 2024
Read by Karl Schmidt.
The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around—fast. When Grandpa Blakeslee announces one July morning that he’s aiming to marry the young milliner, Miss Love Simpson—a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward—the news is served up all over town. And young Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a major scandal. Will nevertheless approves of this May-December match and follows its progress with just a smidgen of youthful prurience. A timeless, funny, resplendent novel – about a romance that rocks an entire town, a boy’s passage from childhood into adolescence, and how people lived and died in a small Southern town at the turn of the century.
(Mariner Books; ISBN-10: 0618918716)
Theme: “Miniatures”, Williams Grant Still for flute, oboe and piano, Crystal Records
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Latest Episodes
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Cold Sassy Tree 9 of 25
Will’s mother finally relents and sends Will to help Miss Love clear out Granny Blakeslee’s things. While there, Will learns about why Miss Love married Grandpa.
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Cold Sassy Tree 8 of 25
Grandpa Blakeslee is back from his honeymoon with Miss Love and the whole town is in an uproar, everyone except young Will Tweedy. Now Grandpa wants Will to help Miss Love fix up Granny Blakeslee’s house, which only makes the town’s outrage even greater.
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Cold Sassy Tree 7 of 25
Everyone in town has gathered at the Tweedy home to marvel at young Will Tweedy after he survived being run over by a train (with hardly a scratch). But when Grandpa Blakeslee arrives back from his wedding, the “party” takes on a much different tone.
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Cold Sassy Tree 6 of 25
While walking along a railroad trestle, Willy Tweedy is trapped on the structure when a train approaches. He lies flat, between the rails, and the train passes over him. He survives, but finds himself pinned until a mill girl from town, Lightfoot, comes to his aid.
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Cold Sassy Tree 5 of 25
Grandpa Blakeslee intends to elope with Miss Love Simpson, just three weeks after the death of Granny Blakeslee. But first, Cold Sassy celebrates its “first” Fourth of July.
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West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
Monday, May 20 through Friday, June 14, 2024
Read by Jim Fleming.
Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It’s 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive…