Plymouth Congregational Church
1900 Nicollet Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55405

Meeting date is October 12, 2019
8:45 am to 12:30 pm

The fall meeting will be at Plymouth Congregational Church, which is located at the southern edge of downtown Minneapolis. Founded in 1857, today Plymouth is a progressive faith community of 1,600 people. Per its web site, the church is “grounded in the Christian tradition. In mutual care and respect for our diverse understandings of God, we seek to embody the radical love and justice found in the life, teachings and spirit of Jesus…We are committed to creating sanctuary for the soul and seeking the sacred in all ways. We engage the ancient teachings to bring them alive today, nourishing and expanding hearts and minds to become the change we want to see in the world.”

UPDATE!  The meeting registration form is now posted under forms.  Don’t forget the 2020 membership form also.

Here is an updated description of the upcoming fall program taken from the current newsletter of which you will receive a full version if you are a TCACLA member.

The featured speaker is Susan Marie Swanson, the author of several books for young readers, including Getting Used to the Dark: 26 Night Poems, Letter to the Lake, The First Thing My Mama Told Me, and To Be Like the Sun. She is best known for The House in the
Night, which won both the Minnesota Book Award and the Caldecott Medal in
2009. One of her poems for children, “Trouble, Fly,” has appeared in a choral setting for treble voices and in an art installation in a children’s hospital. As a visiting writer, Susan Marie has written poems and stories with children for many years, teaching in
literary arts programs sponsored by COMPAS, the American Swedish Institute, the Loft Literary Center, and other organizations. She also writes and speaks about children’s literature, most recently in an essay on writing poetry with children for a parenting book, a presentation on books by Native authors for an elementary school faculty, and a talk on international children’s books for a local writers’ group.

At the TCACLA Fall Meeting, Susan Marie will be talking about picture books by Minnesota authors and illustrators, both her own and titles by a diverse group
of others. She’ll share resources, suggest criteria for book selection—and offer general good cheer about church libraries. She is a long-time member of Plymouth Congregational Church.