Library News

POMEROY–The Friends of Denny Ashby Library and Humanities Washington invite the community to a free presentation and in-person conversation with Jennifer Sherman, a member of the 2021-2023 Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau program, on June 16, 2002 at 7 p.m. at the Garfield County Senior Center, 695 Main Street.

The Gentrification of Rural Washington; How Washington’s rural communities are rapidly changing with the influx of urbanites looking for a different life experience. She advocates the importance of getting to know the neighbors who are least like us so that we can minimize destructive social divides together.

Sherman is a professor of sociology at Washington State University. Her qualitative research focuses on poverty and inequality, mainly in the rural Northwest. She is the author of two books, the most recent of which is titled Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American Dream (2021), and the coeditor of the 2017 volume, Rural Poverty in the United States.

Masks will be mandatory for attendance of this presentation

Please contact Barbara DeHerrera, Friends of Denny Ashby Library President, [email protected] or 509-751-7810 OR Lillian Heytvelt [email protected] 509-843-3710