Foster‐Glocester Regional Schools awarded $15K NEA Big Read grant

Emily Gowdey-Backus

10/12/2018

THE FOSTER-GLOCESTER Regional School District was awarded a $15,000 Big Read grant by the National Endowment for the Arts, which it will use to fund a read-along series from Nov. 1 to Jan. 18 in which students at Ponaganset High School and community members will read Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried,” a fictionalized account of the author’s time in Vietnam serving in the Vietnam War.

PROVIDENCE – The regional school system linking the towns of Foster and Glocester was awarded one of 79 National Endowment for the Arts grants to host an NEA Big Read program. The $15,000 grant will fund a read-along series from Nov. 1 to Jan. 18 in which students and community members will read Tim O’Brien’s…

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