April 28, 2022 - The Center Woman’s Reading Club met on Thursday, March 3rd at the First United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall.
The club was pleased to present the Center library a donation for $700. Sandra Davis, the librarian, was at the meeting to accept the check.
Deborah Chadwick presented her program on Gone with the Wind, written by Margaret Mitchell. She chose the book because Gone With the Wind was the turning point - the book that hooked her onto reading. Gone with Wind romanticizes the South at the time of the Civil War. This historical events are correct and meticulously used in the story. The book shows the attitude of the South at the time the book was written in the early 1900s. Margaret Mitchell was born in Atlanta in 1900. Her father was a lawyer and the president of the Atlanta Historical Society and her mother was a suffragette and advocate of woman’s rights in general. Margaret grew up listening to stories about Atlanta during the Civil War, stories often told by people who lived through the war.
Gone with the Wind was published in 1936, ten years after Mitchell began writing the book. In 1937 the novel received the Pulitzer Prize and three year later it became an epic Oscar winning movie.
As a Women’s Reading Club, we do try to find books written by women and about women – strong independent women. Gone with the Wind is such a novel. It was written by a strong independent thinking woman about strong minded women – Ellen, Mammie, Scarlett and Melanie.
Olivia de Havilland was quoted as saying: “Gone With the Wind will go on forever. It has this universal life, this continuing life. Every nation has experienced was and defeat and renaissance. So all people can identify with the characters.”
And after all tomorrow is another day.
Delicious refreshments were served and a time of fellowship followed.
Guests are always welcome. Please contact the club membership coordinator, Monty Jones, at 936-598-5757 if you are interested in visiting the club.
