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"I am completely smitten with the Lunch with Books patrons...who welcomed me like a long-lost cousin. It takes two to have a successful reading: an enthusiastic presenter and an engaged audience, and boy did the stars align for us." -Marie Manilla, Still Life with Plums

"Lunch With Books is an outstanding program -- one of the best in the country." -NPR Journalist Matthew Algeo, The President is a Sick Man


"With a new book in hand, I’ve visited a lot of libraries lately, and I think the Ohio County Public Library is my all-time favorite. People are kind and welcoming, and deeply appreciate a visiting writer." -Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule (National Book Award)

“I wanted the book launch to be at Lunch With Books because it is the best library book program in West Virginia and because Wheeling and the Wheeling area was centrally involved in so many of the firsts in West Virginia sports.” –Bob Barnett, Hillside Fields: A History of Sports in West Virginia

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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The Foreman-Hazlett War Stories

Civil War Cannons & More

Noel Foreman will be at Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library in Wheeling on Tuesday, March 6 at noon to discuss his father's WWII experiences. Mr. Foreman’s wife Anne Hazlett Foreman, the well regarded local artist, will discuss her summer travels with her family to various Civil War battlefields to find and catalog cannons for a book her father, James C. Hazlett, M.D., co-authored (still the most authoritative publication on the subject). Lunch With Books programs are free and open to the public. Patrons are invited to bring a bag lunch and free beverages are served. Please call 304-232-0244 for more information.
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Monday, February 27, 2012

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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Feb 28: African American Civil War Soldiers

Wilkes Kinney will be at Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library on Tuesday February 28 at noon to discuss the participation of African Americans in the Civil War as both Union and Confederate Soldiers. The program is part of both the library’s Black History Month and Civil War Sesquicentennial observances. Lunch With Books programs are free and open to the public. Patrons are invited to bring a bag lunch and free beverages are served. Please call 304-232-0244 for more information.
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Monday, February 13, 2012

FEB 21 AT NOON: Quilts & the Underground Railroad

FEB 21 AT NOON: Kate Quinn returns with John Mattox, Curator of the Underground Railroad Museum in Flushing, to discuss the use of patterns in Quilts as coded communication for slaves escaping to the North.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

CANCELED: Prostitution in 19th Century Wheeling

CANCELED AND RESCHEDULED FOR JULY 10 AT NOON.

Dr. Barbara Howe, former director of WVU’s Center for Women’s Studies, will be at Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library in Wheeling on Tuesday, February 14 at noon present “Cyprians and Courtesans, Murder and Mayhem,” a look at prostitution in Wheeling from 1830-1865, examining the lives of women who were often forced into prostitution because of poverty. During the Civil War, city officials struggled to control prostitution in a city full of soldiers. Lunch With Books programs are free and open to the public. Patrons are invited to bring a bag lunch and free beverages are served. Please call 304-232-0244 for more information.
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Top Ten Lunch With Books Programs

Program; Presenter; Attendance; Date

1. SAENGERFEST; Eintracht German Singing Society; 200; 07-17-10

2. A Lucky Child; Auschwitz Survivor Judge Thomas Buergenthal; 198; 03-04-11

3. Fashion Show; Civil War 150; 194; 11-20-11

4. Ruanaidh; Art Rooney, Jr. and Jim O'Brien; 168; 06-15-10

5. Follow the River; James Alexander Thom; 160; 06-05-08

6. Warwood Memories; 157; 12-18-12

7. The Quiet Man Pub Reading; 150; 08-30-12

8. Wheeling Then and Now; Sean Duffy; 146; 09-07-10

9. Bloch Brother Tobacco; Stuart Bloch; 131; 04-27-10

10. Reasons to Believe; Dr. Scott Hahn; 126; 08-21-07

Book Discussion Groups

The Ohio County Public Library facilitates book discussion groups for both young adults and adults. Currently, the OCPL offers two adult groups, which meet on the first Monday and third Thursday of each month.

In addition to its own growing collection, the OCPL has access to the book discussion collection of the West Virginia Library Commission.

To join or form a book discussion group, or for more information, please call 304-232-0244.

Meeting of the Minds Philosophy Group

The Meeting of the Minds Philosophic Inquiry Forum is facilitated by David Weimer. The group meets virtually every Tuesday at 6 PM. Call the library for meeting room locations.

For more information, visit www.firstknowthyself.org/m&mphilosophy.htm or contact group organizer, David Weimer, at 740 526-0985 or by email at dwwweimer@comcast.net..