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Truman Capote's "The Thanksgiving Visitor"
The Lewes Public Library Spoken Word Society presents Suzanne Savoy and Jack Herholdt in a live reading of The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote, published in McCall’s Magazine in 1967. Savoy and Herholdt first performed this piece online for the library in 2020 and are back to kick off the holiday season with this perennial favorite.
Capote’s The Thanksgiving Visitor is an autobiographical tale that follows nine-year-old Buddy as he is bullied by classmate Odd Henderson. Buddy’s aged aunt and best friend, Sook, hatches a plan to help him. The results, played out during the extended family’s Thanksgiving dinner in 1930’s Alabama, are disastrous . . . or are they?
The Lewes Spoken Word Society (LSWS) celebrates the tradition and artistry of oral storytelling through lectures, performances, discussions, demonstrations, and other publicly-shared experiences. The LSWS is partially funded by the generous support of the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on DelawareScene.com.
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