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Reading has become a lost art.
Before of our readers yell back to us and say, “We are reading the newspaper or the Web site,” the days of sitting down and reading a good book are slowly disappearing for many of us.
When was the last time you sat down and read a good book during the course of several weeks or a month? If you haven’t, the National Endowment for the Arts says you are not alone.
Fewer than 50 percent of adults in this country are reading literature. The loss is 28 percent for younger readers, causing the NEA to declare a national crisis in the decline of reading.
The local community wants to do something about the decline in reading and reintroduce this lost art to Churchill County residents. From the end of September to Oct. 25, our community has been taking part in The Big Read, a program sponsored by the NEA to restore reading to many towns and cities.
Churchill County is one of 208 communities participating in this year’s Big Read program with the county library taking the lead. In keeping with the city’s centennial theme, the local Big Read committee selected “The Maltese Falcon,” a detective novel written by Dashiell Hammett.
According to local Big Read members, they chose “The Maltese Falcon” because they thought the book would fit in with Fallon’s centennial theme in a number of ways.
Last week, The Big Read committee invited children’s author Bruce Hale speak to several elementary school classes about the art of reading and writing. He had an eager audience listening to his every word.
“When I was growing up, I thought books just showed up,” Hale told third graders at E.C. Best.
Hale, who wrote a children’s book entitled “The Malted Falcon,” said well known physicist Albert Einstein considered imagination more important than knowledge.
Reading does open up a world of excitement and imagination.
In his youth, Hale said after he read an adventure book, he then desired to be a pirate or Spartacus living the life of a gladiator.
Later, Hale said he wanted to be an author and told the students three things it takes to be successful: practice, practice and practice.
If you ever saw the movie of “The Maltese Falcon,” then you’re familiar with the story of detective Sam Spade and how he cracks a case complete with a web of deceit and murder.
With all the modern-day events such as negative campaigning, the Wall Street fiasco and the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, this may be the right time to escape the world through the art of reading.
We know you won’t be disappointed.
Editorials are written by the LVN Editorial staff.
Before of our readers yell back to us and say, “We are reading the newspaper or the Web site,” the days of sitting down and reading a good book are slowly disappearing for many of us.
When was the last time you sat down and read a good book during the course of several weeks or a month? If you haven’t, the National Endowment for the Arts says you are not alone.
Fewer than 50 percent of adults in this country are reading literature. The loss is 28 percent for younger readers, causing the NEA to declare a national crisis in the decline of reading.
The local community wants to do something about the decline in reading and reintroduce this lost art to Churchill County residents. From the end of September to Oct. 25, our community has been taking part in The Big Read, a program sponsored by the NEA to restore reading to many towns and cities.
Churchill County is one of 208 communities participating in this year’s Big Read program with the county library taking the lead. In keeping with the city’s centennial theme, the local Big Read committee selected “The Maltese Falcon,” a detective novel written by Dashiell Hammett.
According to local Big Read members, they chose “The Maltese Falcon” because they thought the book would fit in with Fallon’s centennial theme in a number of ways.
Last week, The Big Read committee invited children’s author Bruce Hale speak to several elementary school classes about the art of reading and writing. He had an eager audience listening to his every word.
“When I was growing up, I thought books just showed up,” Hale told third graders at E.C. Best.
Hale, who wrote a children’s book entitled “The Malted Falcon,” said well known physicist Albert Einstein considered imagination more important than knowledge.
Reading does open up a world of excitement and imagination.
In his youth, Hale said after he read an adventure book, he then desired to be a pirate or Spartacus living the life of a gladiator.
Later, Hale said he wanted to be an author and told the students three things it takes to be successful: practice, practice and practice.
If you ever saw the movie of “The Maltese Falcon,” then you’re familiar with the story of detective Sam Spade and how he cracks a case complete with a web of deceit and murder.
With all the modern-day events such as negative campaigning, the Wall Street fiasco and the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, this may be the right time to escape the world through the art of reading.
We know you won’t be disappointed.
Editorials are written by the LVN Editorial staff.
