THIS MONTH’S MEETING:
AMBROSE BIERCE
Presented by Founding Member Dave
Wells
(Read more about Ambrose Bierce below)
October 24, 2007
7:15 p.m.
Gere Branch Library, 56th and Normal, Lincoln
(Board meeting at 6:30 - all are invited to attend and contribute ideas)
UPCOMING MEETINGS
(Get all of these on your calendars!):
All programs are at 7:15 p.m. and most are at the Gere Branch Library
(56th and Normal, Lincoln, Nebraska),
unless another location and/or time is stated.
November 28, 2007
Annual "Book Review" Meeting
January 23, 2008
Topic to be announced
February 27, 2008
Topic to be announced
March 26, 2008
Topic to be announced
April 23, 2008
Topic to be announced
May 28, 2008
Topic to be announced
Note that meeting dates and places could change as special events may
be scheduled.
DUES
2007-2008 Dues are now
due! Please bring your check for $15.00 ($25.00 for a family
membership) to the meeting, or you may mail it to Civil War Round
Table, 1227 Lincoln Mall, Lincoln, NE, 68508. So far,
sixteen members have paid their 2007-2008 dues, with two of those
being a family membership, for a total of $275.00 collected. The
treasurer reports the following as having paid at this point:
Basso, Art
Bender, Wally
Clark, Reed
Guenzel, Steven E., Family
Jones, Dallas, Family
Peterson, Shere (new member!)
Reagan, Mike
Reagan, Paul
Rinkevich, Tom
Rockenbach, Ron
Roelle, Wayne
Rudebusch, Merle
Schlismann, Carol (new member!)
Stewart, Dean B.
Stock, Darrell
Zalewski, Jim (new member!)
If you have paid and are not on
the list, please contact the treasurer to correct the records. If
you have not paid, please support the Civil War Round Table of Nebraska!
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Ambrose Bierce
Dave Wells describes Ambrose
Bierce as a cross between Mark Twain (because Bierce wrote prolificly)
and Edgar Allan Poe (because Bierce’s short stories often included
surprising twists and turns). Dave reports that one Bierce short
story was the basis for a Twilight Zone episode.
Here is a link to an Ambrose Bierce web site: The Ambrose Bierce Site
And here is a link to the complete electronic version of The Devil's Dictionary, one of
Bierce's classic works: The
Devil's Dictionary
And a couple of additional links not included in the March, 2007,
Newletter:
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Hope you can all come
on the
24th!
