Library Lunch-box                     Readers Repast           Thursday, March 19   12:00 - 1:30                                  Wednesday, March 18   6:00 - 8:00   

                        bring your bag lunch                                                                pairs of readers take turns bringing a  

                                                                                                                                   simple supper and dessert

As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future .