The Appleton Public Library will present the book discussion series Images of Rural Life in American Literature at 7:00pm on the first Tuesday evening of the month February through May, 2001.

Led by Richard Yatzeck of Lawrence University, participants will explore four meditations on rural life in twentieth-century America: Lonesome Land by B. M. Bower; The Land Remembers by Ben Logan; A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean; and Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie.

• What values and morals is rural life supposed to symbolize?
• What traditions and ways of life are unique to it?
• Does rural life-or the idea of rural life-serve as a viable antidote to, or refuge from, our increasingly modernized contemporary lives?
• What of the land itself?
• Does it tell us who we are or might become?