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Ephrata tackles Tolstoy

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From: Sunday News Lancaster, PA
Date: 20071118
Author:Jo-ann Greene

NEA grant helps to highlight a Russian classic

Ephrata-area residents soon will be reading Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," learning about Russian history and culture through school and library programs, and shopping at a White Nights street fair downtown. (Fur hats and babushkas optional.)

All this is thanks to an $8,000 grant to the Ephrata Public Library from the National Endowment for the Arts being matched by local donors and sponsors.

Ephrata has been chosen for the NEA's Big Read initiative, aimed at restoring reading for pleasure and enlightenment to the ...

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