"To Kill A Mockingbird"

Lewes Public Library and Rehoboth Beach Film Society celebrate the 50th anniversary of "To Kill A Mockingbird" with a film screening and panel
discussion.
The Cadbury at Lewes is graciously hosting the event. The film screening will take place from 2:00PM 4:30PM, on Wednesday, August 4, in
Cadbury at Lewes meeting room. Both the film screening and the discussion session are free and open to the public.

The classic film features Gregory Peck in his Oscar® winning performance as
Atticus Finch, an Alabama lawyer who defends an innocent black man against rape charges but ends up in a maelstrom of hate and bigotry. Meanwhile,
Finchs children learn to overcome their own prejudices and fears of the unknown by making contact with their reclusive neighbor, Boo Radley (Robert Duvall in his feature film debut). [1962, Runtime: 130 min., Not rated]

There will be a dinner break from 4:30PM until 7:30PM, when the audience can reconvene to take part in a panel discussion led by Maribeth Fisher, Henry J. Evans, Jr., Sandy Browning, and Kathleen M. Jennings, of Harper Lees classic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. This discussion will include clips from Scout, Atticus and Boo, a collection of interviews with prominent figures, including Oprah Winfrey and Tom Brokaw, that reveals how Harper Lees classic novel has affected their lives.

About the discussion leaders:

Maribeth Fischers literary essays have appeared in The Iowa Review and The
Yale Review, and have twice been cited as notable in Robert Atwans Best American Essays. She received a Pushcart Prize for her essay Stillborn, as well as a Smart Family Prize for her essay Lottery. Her first novel, The Language of Goodbye, was awarded Virginia Commonwealth Universitys First Novel Award for 2002. Her second novel, The Life You Longed For, which was cited by ...