Wednesday, July 17th at 6:30 pm<\/span><\/h3>\nAll are invited to a special meeting of the Unity Study Circle. While we typically work with Debs\u2019 writings and speeches, this month we\u2019ll shift our focus to another outspoken and influential Hoosier: Kurt Vonnegut. His landmark anti-war novel Slaughterhouse-Five turns 50 this year, and Vonnegut\u2019s critical pen and dedication to peace and justice place Vonnegut squarely in the Debsian tradition. In celebration of the author, we\u2019ll take a deep dive into Vonnegut\u2019s connection to Debs and labor. <\/span><\/p>\nVonnegut accepted the Debs Foundation\u2019s 1981 Eugene V. Debs Award for his advancement of social justice and world peace. His ever-relevant remarks at the 1981 Debs Awards Banquet<\/a> serve as our first reading. We\u2019ll also discuss this 2013 article from Jacobin Magazine<\/a> by Matthew Gannon and Wilson Taylor. This piece describes Vonnegut\u2019s literary contributions to the long struggle for economic justice, connecting him to Debs, Carl Sandburg, A. Phillip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Our final selection is Vonnegut\u2019s Sandburg Award acceptance speech \u201cDon\u2019t Despair if You Never Went to College!\u201d which can be found in the 2013 anthology <\/span>If Thi<\/span>s Isn\u2019t Nic<\/span>e, What Is? Advice to the Young<\/span><\/em> edited by Dan Wakefield. For copyright purposes, this piece isn\u2019t linked here<\/span> \u2014 <\/span>i<\/span>nstead, study group participants will read the speech together at our meeting.<\/span><\/p>\nJailbird<\/b><\/em>:<\/em> Kurt Vonnegut and Eugene V. Debs<\/b><\/h2>\nGuest Lecture by Chris Lafave, Curator, Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library<\/span><\/h3>\nWednesday, July 24th at 6:30 pm<\/span><\/h3>\nThe Debs Museum proudly welcomes Chris Lafave for a guest lecture on Vonnegut\u2019s novel <\/span>Jailbird, <\/span><\/i>highlighting the connections between Debs and Vonnegut. <\/span>Lafave is Curator with the KVML. He was introduced to the work of Kurt Vonnegut while attending Ball State University at the tender age of 23.<\/span><\/p>\nHis first book was <\/span>Breakfast of Champions<\/span><\/em>,<\/em> followed closely by the excellent short story collection, <\/span>Welcome to the Monkey House<\/span><\/em>,<\/em> on the night Vonnegut died. Chris continued to admire Vonnegut\u2019s work throughout a stint playing in bluegrass bands in Chicago, Illinois, and completing his Masters in Library Science at Indiana University.<\/span><\/p>\nHe began volunteering at the KVML in 2011 at the grand opening, became Curator in 2012, and has continued to serve the organization to this day.<\/span><\/p>\nCan\u2019t get enough Vonnegut? <\/span>Be sure to check out the Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library<\/a> and support their transition to a new permanent home on Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis. As part of Banned Books Week<\/a> at KVML, Debs Foundation board members and Debs Museum staff will present an evening of programming on Debs, censorship, and free speech on September 25th. More information coming soon!<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Vonnegut-in-the-Garden-225x300.jpg\")
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Kurt Vonnegut, while in Terre Haute to receive the Eugene V. Debs Award in 1981, speaks to a group in the east garden of the historic Eugene V. Debs home while Debs Foundation founder and board member Bob Constantine looks on.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Join us at the Debs Museum for two events connecting Debs to another Hoosier iconoclast, Kurt Vonnegut. Both events are free and open to the public. Questions? Contact the Debs Museum by calling (812) 232-2163. Unity Study Circle: Kurt Vonnegut Wednesday, July 17th at 6:30 pm All are invited to a special meeting of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museum"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Vonnegut accepted the Debs Foundation\u2019s 1981 Eugene V. Debs Award for his advancement of social justice and world peace. His ever-relevant remarks at the 1981 Debs Awards Banquet<\/a> serve as our first reading. We\u2019ll also discuss this 2013 article from Jacobin Magazine<\/a> by Matthew Gannon and Wilson Taylor. This piece describes Vonnegut\u2019s literary contributions to the long struggle for economic justice, connecting him to Debs, Carl Sandburg, A. Phillip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Our final selection is Vonnegut\u2019s Sandburg Award acceptance speech \u201cDon\u2019t Despair if You Never Went to College!\u201d which can be found in the 2013 anthology <\/span>If Thi<\/span>s Isn\u2019t Nic<\/span>e, What Is? Advice to the Young<\/span><\/em> edited by Dan Wakefield. For copyright purposes, this piece isn\u2019t linked here<\/span> \u2014 <\/span>i<\/span>nstead, study group participants will read the speech together at our meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n The Debs Museum proudly welcomes Chris Lafave for a guest lecture on Vonnegut\u2019s novel <\/span>Jailbird, <\/span><\/i>highlighting the connections between Debs and Vonnegut. <\/span>Lafave is Curator with the KVML. He was introduced to the work of Kurt Vonnegut while attending Ball State University at the tender age of 23.<\/span><\/p>\n His first book was <\/span>Breakfast of Champions<\/span><\/em>,<\/em> followed closely by the excellent short story collection, <\/span>Welcome to the Monkey House<\/span><\/em>,<\/em> on the night Vonnegut died. Chris continued to admire Vonnegut\u2019s work throughout a stint playing in bluegrass bands in Chicago, Illinois, and completing his Masters in Library Science at Indiana University.<\/span><\/p>\n He began volunteering at the KVML in 2011 at the grand opening, became Curator in 2012, and has continued to serve the organization to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n Can\u2019t get enough Vonnegut? <\/span>Be sure to check out the Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library<\/a> and support their transition to a new permanent home on Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis. As part of Banned Books Week<\/a> at KVML, Debs Foundation board members and Debs Museum staff will present an evening of programming on Debs, censorship, and free speech on September 25th. More information coming soon!<\/span><\/p>\n Join us at the Debs Museum for two events connecting Debs to another Hoosier iconoclast, Kurt Vonnegut. Both events are free and open to the public. Questions? Contact the Debs Museum by calling (812) 232-2163. Unity Study Circle: Kurt Vonnegut Wednesday, July 17th at 6:30 pm All are invited to a special meeting of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museum"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Jailbird<\/b><\/em>:<\/em> Kurt Vonnegut and Eugene V. Debs<\/b><\/h2>\n
Guest Lecture by Chris Lafave, Curator, Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library<\/span><\/h3>\n
Wednesday, July 24th at 6:30 pm<\/span><\/h3>\n
<\/p>\nKurt Vonnegut, while in Terre Haute to receive the Eugene V. Debs Award in 1981, speaks to a group in the east garden of the historic Eugene V. Debs home while Debs Foundation founder and board member Bob Constantine looks on.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"