{"id":955,"date":"2010-03-24T11:13:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T15:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=955"},"modified":"2010-03-24T11:13:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T15:13:25","slug":"save-the-date-for-a-new-statewide-book-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2010\/03\/24\/save-the-date-for-a-new-statewide-book-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the date for a new statewide book\u00a0festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dodd Center,\u00a0CT Center for the Book, CT State Library, CT Library Association, CT Commission on Culture and Tourism, UConn Coop, and CT Humanities Council have formed a coaltion to\u00a0plan the first statewide book festival\u00a0to take place at the Greater Hartford UConn Campus on May 21-22, 2011.\u00a0\u00a0The goal of the festival is to bring together writers and readers with a target age of young adults and older.\u00a0 Connecticut author Wally Lamb, pictured below,\u00a0has agreed to\u00a0serve as honorary chair and approximately 25 Connecticut authors will be featured.\u00a0\u00a0There will be readings and signings, presentations and events for children.\u00a0 All programs will be\u00a0free and open to the public.\u00a0\u00a0For more information contact Terri J. Goldich at 860.486.3646 or send an email to <a href=\"mailto:ctbookfestival@gmail.com\">ctbookfestival@gmail.com<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/wally_lamb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-956\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/wally_lamb.jpg?w=99\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2010\/03\/wally_lamb.jpg 1134w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2010\/03\/wally_lamb-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2010\/03\/wally_lamb-681x1024.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 99px) 100vw, 99px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dodd Center,\u00a0CT Center for the Book, CT State Library, CT Library Association, CT Commission on Culture and Tourism, UConn Coop, and CT Humanities Council have formed a coaltion to\u00a0plan the first statewide book festival\u00a0to take place at the Greater &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2010\/03\/24\/save-the-date-for-a-new-statewide-book-festival\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}