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DESCRIPTION:Please join the Rotary Book Discussion Group for the discussion
  of the book The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. All Rota
 rians and guests are welcome.   About the book: In 1972\, when workers in
  Pottstown\, Pennsylvania\, were digging the foundations for a new housing
  development\, the last thing they expected to uncover was a human skeleto
 n. Who the skeleton was and how it got buried there were just two of the l
 ong-held secrets that had been kept for decades by the residents of Chicke
 n Hill\, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Ame
 ricans lived side by side\, sharing ambitions and sorrows.  Chicken Hill 
 was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Chona ran the Heaven & Earth G
 rocery Store\, which served the neighborhood's quirky collection of blacks
  and European immigrants\, helped by her husband\, Moshe\, a Romanian-born
  theater owner who integrated the town's first dance hall. When the state 
 came looking for a deaf black child\, claiming that the boy needed to be i
 nstitutionalized\, Chicken Hill's residents—roused by Chona's kindess an
 d the courage of a local worker named Nate Timblin—banded together to ke
 ep the boy safe.  When the truth is revealed about the skeleton\, the boy
 \, and the part the town’s establishment played in both\, McBride shows 
 that it is love and community—heaven and earth—that ultimately sustain
  us.   
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SUMMARY:Rotary Book Discussion Group
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Please join the Rotary Book Discussion Grou
 p for the discussion of the book <em>The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store </
 em>by James McBride. All Rotarians and guests are welcome.</p>\n\n<p>&nbsp
 \;</p>\n\n<p>About the book:</p>\n\n<p>In 1972\, when workers in Pottstown
 \, Pennsylvania\, were digging the foundations for a new housing developme
 nt\, the last thing they expected to uncover was a human skeleton. Who the
  skeleton was and how it got buried there were just two of the long-held s
 ecrets that had been kept for decades by the residents of Chicken Hill\, t
 he dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans liv
 ed side by side\, sharing ambitions and sorrows.&nbsp\; Chicken Hill was w
 here Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Chona ran the Heaven &amp\; Earth G
 rocery Store\, which served the neighborhood&#39\;s quirky collection of b
 lacks and European immigrants\, helped by her husband\, Moshe\, a Romanian
 -born theater owner who integrated the town&#39\;s first dance hall. When 
 the state came looking for a deaf black child\, claiming that the boy need
 ed to be institutionalized\, Chicken Hill&#39\;s residents&mdash\;roused b
 y Chona&#39\;s kindess and the courage of a local worker named Nate Timbli
 n&mdash\;banded together to keep the boy safe.&nbsp\; When the truth is re
 vealed about the skeleton\, the boy\, and the part the town&rsquo\;s estab
 lishment played in both\, McBride shows that it is love and community&mdas
 h\;heaven and earth&mdash\;that ultimately sustain us.</p>\n\n<p>&nbsp\;</
 p>\n
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