BPL Celebrates Women's History Month 

February 27, 2001

March Brown Bag Lunch Programs

Please join us at the Birmingham Public Library each Wednesday during March at 12:00 noon for our Brown Bag Lunch series. These programs will be held in the third floor auditorium of the Linn-Henley Building at the Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place. The Library provides a beverage. Reservations are not necessary. These programs are free and open to the public. For more information call, 226-3604.

March 7
Professor Ada Long from the University of Alabama at Birmingham will discuss the works of African-American writer Alice Walker.

March 14
University of Montevallo Professor Pennie Ticen will lecture on women writers in South Asia, their works and their impact in the literary world.

March 21
Storyteller Dolores Hydock, accompanied by the old string band Flying Jenny, will present the program "Footprint on the Sky: Memories of a Chandler Mountain Spring." The program showcases the folklore of an Alabama community.

March 28
Professor Virginia Volker from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Ms. Emily Norton from Ramsey High School will discuss the history of the women's movement and its influence on American society.