Reading Boost Is State Goal
Hemingway Works Chosen for 'Great Michigan Read'

Ernest Hemingway's "The Nick Adams Stories" will be read by people across the state for the Great Michigan Read, a community literacy program, the Michigan Humanities Council announced Monday, July 9. Engadine Library and St. Ignace Public Library are two local libraries participating in this program.

The works, considered literary classics, chronicle a young man's coming of age in a series of linked short stories, most of them set in Michigan.

After reading "The Nick Adams Stories," available at libraries, people can use the reader's guide and Web site to talk about the work, and participate online in Great Michigan Read activities. The Web site offers information about Ernest Hemingway, his work, and his Michigan connections. It will also post programming schedules for live radio broadcasts about the book.

On Sunday, July 22, Engadine Library is hosting Jack Jobst, a retired professor from Michigan Technological University, who will speak about Ernest Hemingway and the Upper Peninsula at the Mill Pond Park pavilion at 2 p.m.

Crooked Tree Arts Center in Petoskey will host an "Up North with the Hemingways" exhibit from July 27 through August 25. A traveling version of this exhibit will tour several Michigan communities through June 2008. More than 100 community libraries are participating in the Great Michigan Read.

The Great Michigan Read Web site is www.greatmichigan read .org.