Philadelphia Weekly

On American Main Streets: A Conversation with Miles Orvell and Sandy Sorlien

A discussion of both real and imagined notions of American main streets with Miles Orvell and Sandy Sorlien. Orvell is the author of The Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community (University of North Carolina Press 2012) and professor of English and American studies at Temple. In 2009, he received the Bode-Pearson Prize for lifetime achievement, awarded by the American Studies Association. Sorlien is the author of Fifty Houses: Images from the American Road (Johns Hopkins 2002), and is finishing a book about Main Streets in America with the working title The Heart of Town.

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WHEN
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Recurring: ONCE

TIME & PRICE
2:30pm. free

WHERE
Paley Library at Temple University Main Campus , 1801 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA.
One time only on 02/21/2013. .

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