David Bell
WKU’s bestselling author David Bell, an Associate Professor of English, makes a return visit to WKU Libraries Kentucky Live! Southern Culture At Its Best series on Thursday, November 14th at 7:00 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 1680 Campbell Lane. He’ll be talking about the “key elements” in writing a good mystery novel and how they differ from regular fiction and reading from his newest novel. A book signing will follow.
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Holocaust survivor and professional violinist Samuel Marder spoke to a standing room only crowd at Barnes & Noble on Thursday, October 17 as part of the WKU Libraries’ Far Away Places speaker series. At the age of ten, Marder was a victim of the Holocaust where he lost his father during his 3 and a half years in a concentration camp in what is now Ukraine. Marder, his mother, and sister survived and eventually moved to New York. His discussion focused on the ill effects of prejudicial attitudes and behaviors and how our world continues to repeat history. He ended his program with a poem he wrote about a dream he had the night his father died, and a display of photographs from the Holocaust. Mr. Marder currently plays the violin for the Radio City Hall orchestra and conducts presentations to help combat prejudices of any kind.
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Samuel Marder, violin virtuoso
WKU Libraries and WKU’s Departments of Music, Sociology and Philosophy & Religion will host presentations Oct. 17-18 by Samuel Marder, professional violinist, author and Holocaust survivor. Marder will discuss his new book Devils Among Angels: A Journey From Paradise And Hell To Life at 7 p.m. Oct. 17 at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1680 Campbell Lane. Admission is free, open to the public, and a “swipeable” event for WKU students.
Marder was born in Czernowitz (Chernivtsi) in Romania where he lived with his sister and parents. He began studying the violin at age 6 in 1936. Three years later the Nazis invaded Poland and Romania joined the Axis. At the age of 10 he was living in a concentration camp in Transnistria, Ukraine where he was sharing a tiny room with 50 others, only 12 of whom would survive the ordeal. His father died of typhoid fever.
He, his sister and his mother were liberated after three and a half years’ incarceration eventually making their way to West Germany and then to New York to join his mother’s brother. After graduating from the Manhattan School of Music he became concertmaster and Assistant Conductor of the Leonard Bernstein Gala Orchestra and has since played with many orchestras and been a soloist at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall. He’s toured though Europe, South America, Israel and Korea and has been playing in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular orchestra since 1968. His arrangement of Canon in D Major by Johan Pachelbel for violin and piano is widely performed around the world.
Samuel Marder, present day
Devils Among Angels is a collection of short stories and poems inspired by memories of Marder’s childhood years before, during and after World War II and the Holocaust. He uses prose and poetry in both fiction and non-fiction to reflect on good and evil in the past and present.
Bryan Carson reviewed his book for the Sunday, October 13, 2013 Daily News.
Far Away Places event flyer
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A recent donation of 11 stereographic cards opens up a view of early Bowling Green, KY. These images are from 1886 and show downtown Bowling Green, the Barren River, an early school, the Fairview Cemetery, Southern Normal School, Main and State Streets and two bridges. Many of these albumen images have not been seen before. Stereographs like these were a vehicle for popular education and entertainment in the latter part of the nineteenth century. These images were mounted on cardboard with two almost identical photographs, side by side, and they had to be viewed with a stereoscope. Viewing them in this way created a three-dimensional effect. These images gave an opportunity for many to see views of far-away lands in a way that was not available to the general population. Their affordability and easy availability also made stereography a popular pastime that lasted over six decades. See other images of Bowling Green, KY by using KENCAT at kencat.wku.edu
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October 10, 2013 · 7:55 pm
Marc Murphy, Editorial Cartoonist for the Courier-Journal of Louisville, KY
Marc Murphy is a native of Ashland, Kentucky where he grew up in the Appalachian steel and coal country. His father was a native of Prince Edward island, Canada while his mother’s family were of Slovenian heritage. His father was a TV and radio personality and his mother an accordion player. They met while both were performing at a TV station in Charleston, W.V.
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Banned Books Week display in the
Commons at Cravens
Banned Books Week is an annual event promoted by the American Library Association (ALA) celebrating the freedom to read. WKU Libraries celebrates 2013 Banned Books Week by encouraging patrons to “Jump on the Banned Wagon!” and read banned or challenged books.
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Courier-Journal editorial cartoonist Marc Murphy from Louisville, Kentucky will be speaking at Barnes & Noble on Thursday, October 10 as part of WKU Libraries’ Kentucky Live! lecture series. Murphy’s cartoons are nationally distributed and are published five times per week in the Courier-Journal.
Murphy’s works are now online in digital animation through the work of Digital Graphic Artist Chris Feldmann at the Courier-Journal. Murphy describes Feldman’s process as taking his art and “combining Steven Spielberg and Walt Disney.” Murphy says, “if you liked today’s cartoon, or more particularly…if you absolutely hated it, if you want to hate it even more, go to the Courier-Journal website and see it in all its animated glory.”
Samuel Marder, professional violinist and Holocaust survivor, will be speaking at Barnes & Noble on Thursday, October 17, on his recent book Devils among Angels: A Journey from Paradise and Hell to Life.
Devils among Angels is a collection of short stories and poems inspired by memories of Marder’s childhood years before, during, and after World War II and the Holocaust. He uses prose and poetry in both fiction and non-fiction to reflect on good and evil in the past and present.
Distinguished Professor of History Lisa Rosner, Ph.D., from Stockton College, writes about Marder’s book. “This is a transformative book in so many ways,” says Rosner. “Sam Marder takes the harrowing images of his childhood, shattered by the Nazis, and his experiences in concentration and refugee camps, and transforms them into stories, poems, and music. The reader is transformed by Marder’s striking images of angels and devils at work in human lives—and his calm reassurance of the ultimate victory of the angels. This book is required reading for anyone interested in the resilience of children, and creative genius, in the face of the Holocaust.”
Both programs will be held at 7 pm at Barnes & Noble Booksellers on Campbell Lane in Bowling Green, Kentucky. These are free events for anyone in the community. For more information, go to wku.edu/library.
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WKU Libraries student workers attended an orientation in Helm 100 on Wednesday, September 11 to learn more about their responsibilities in the libraries. Brian Coutts, Department Head of Library Public Services, welcomed the students and gave an overview of library services. Brent Fisk from VPAL, Crystal Bowling and Paula Bowles from Library Technical Services, and Doug Wiles from Library Security all provided insightful information and offered assistance to the students workers. Upon conclusion, several students won a library t-shirt from the drawing.
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Dr. Coutts with speaker Mike Veach at the book signing of
Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey: An American Heritage
At 7:00 p.m. last Thursday, September 12, Mike Veach, the Associate Curator of Special Collections at the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, KY discussed his latest book at Barnes & Noble about the the real story of Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey.
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