Halftime Heroes: Coaching Beyond the X's and O's

A public screening and discussion of the student-produced documentary Halftime Heroes: Coaching Beyond the X’s and O’s will be held on Monday, March 3 at 6 p.m. at Pebble Hill (101 S. Debardeleben Street). 

The documentary features student athletes and three coaches from Beauregard High School in Lee County and focuses on the crucial role of coaches as mentors to students on and off the playing field.  Psychology major Laney Payne began the project as part of her senior capstone course for the minor in community and civic engagement.  Charles Harper, a senior radio, television, and film major, served as videographer.  

Payne and Harper will discuss their work on the project, and special guests from Beauregard High School will discuss the role of high school sports in a rural community.  A reception in honor of students and coaches will follow.  The event is co-sponsored by the Community and Civic EngagementInitiative and the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts &Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University.  For more information, call 334-844-6198. 

Join us for a book talk with Skip Tucker

The public is invited to a book talk by Skip Tucker, author of Pale Blue Light, on Tuesday, February 25 at 4:00 p.m. at Pebble Hill.

Pale Blue Light is a historical fiction thriller set in the Civil War. The story focuses on fictional spy Rabe Canon as he begins to suspect the “friendly fire” that wounded and eventually killed General Stonewall Jackson during a battle may have been an assassination. Pale Blue Light was published by NewSouth Books in Montgomery.

Skip Tucker worked for the Jasper Daily Mountain Eagle for 10 years as a reporter, editor, and assistant publisher. He became press secretary for George McMillan and then Charlie Graddick in their gubernatorial campaigns and was later deputy press secretary for Alabama Governor Jim Folsom.

The event is free, open to the public, and will be followed by refreshments. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Pebble Hill is located at 101 S. Debardeleben Street and is home to the Caroline Marshall Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University. For more information on the program, call 334-844-4903 or visit www.auburn.edu/cah.

SHR @ Pebble Hill

SHR @ Pebble Hill, a set on Flickr.

The Southern Humanities Review hosted a reading by Molly Antopol, Peter Kline, and Brittany Perham at Pebble Hill on Saturday, February 15 as part of Discovering SHR. Food, drinks, and poetry were enjoyed by all!

Join us for a reading by M.P. Jones IV

The public is invited to a book talk by M.P. Jones IV, author of Live at Lethe: A Poetry Collection on Friday, February 7 at 4:00 p.m.

Brimming with darkness and forgetting, Live at Lethe is an epic collection composed of short lyric reflections, steeped in the waters of oblivion. This tapestry of loss is woven with the dark silk of Southern ecological destruction and the passing of the poet’s grandfather--post-Fugitive Agrarian novelist Madison Jones--whose work reflected a fear that the South had lost its “redemptive memory.” The elegiac songs of Live at Lethe reach wildly for meaning in a world increasingly filled with disappearance and shadow.

The event is free, open to the public, and will be followed by refreshments. 

Pebble Hill is located at 101 S. Debardeleben Street and is home to the Caroline Marshall Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts.  The Center exists to bring together scholars and the public to share information, learn from each other, and explore the issues that matter most.

For more information on the program, call 334-844-4903 or visit www.auburn.edu/cah 

Join us for a screening of HERMAN'S HOUSE

On Thursday, February 6, 6:00 p.m., the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University will screen Point Of View’s Herman’s House (90 minutes) at the Auburn Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (450 East Thach Avenue). The screening is free and open to the public.

Herman Wallace may be the longest-serving prisoner in solitary confinement in the United States—he's spent more than 40 years in a 6-by-9-foot cell in Louisiana. Imprisoned in 1967 for a robbery he admits, he was subsequently sentenced to life for a killing he vehemently denies. Herman's House is a moving account of the remarkable expression his struggle found in an unusual project proposed by artist Jackie Sumell. Imagining Wallace's "dream home" began as a game and became an interrogation of justice and punishment in America. The film takes us inside the duo's unlikely 12-year friendship, revealing the transformative power of art. 

PBS’s POV is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. The screening is sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Auburn Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.