FARMVILLE HISTORY
THIS CONVERTED RAILWAY NOW SERVES AS ONE OF FARMVILLE’S MOST POPULAR HIKING LOCATIONS
The High Bridge Trail
“Cows on the Cover: Regionalism, Wisconsin and YA Literature”
“Taming the Ouija Heebie-Jeebies: The Talking Board in Material Culture”
“Cinderella’s Princely Ever After: Post-Feminist Cinderella Adaptations for Young Audiences”
Doc Brock / Dr. Rhonda Brock-Servais
BASED ON GEORGE R.R. MARTIN’S A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE SERIES, THIS FANTASY SHOW AIRED FROM 2011-2019
Game of Thrones
THIS PROLIFIC ENGLISH PLAYWRIGHT IS OFTEN CALLED “THE BARD”
William Shakespeare
WHICH MOVIE STARTED THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE
Iron Man
FARMVILLE IS HOME TO THIS LOCATION, WHICH IS THE 10TH OLDEST COLLEGE IN AMERICA
Hampden-Sydney College
Shakespeare and the Theater of Pity
“Love, Pity, and Deception in Othello”
“Richard Barnfield’s Petrarchism”
Dr. Shawn Smith
BASED ON THE DYSTOPIAN WORKS OF SUZANNE COLLINS, THE FIRST FILM IN THIS FRANCHISE WAS RELEASED IN 2012
The Hunger Games
THIS MYSTERY WRITER, RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CREATION OF ICONIC SLEUTHS LIKE MISS MARPLE AND HERCULE POIROT, IS THE SECOND BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF ALL TIME (ONLY BEATEN BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE)
Agatha Christie
BLACK PANTHER IS SET IN WHICH FICTIONAL COUNTRY
Wakanda
ON APRIL 23, 1951, BARBARA JOHNS, A 16-YEAR-OLD STUDENT, LED HER CLASSMATES IN A STRIKE TO PROTEST THE CONDITIONS AT THIS LOCATION, CLAIMING THEY WERE “VASTLY INFERIOR” TO THOSE ATTENDED BY WHITE STUDENTS AT NEARBY FARMVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
Robert Russa Moton High School / The Robert Moton Museum
ORIGINALLY PENNED AS TWILIGHT FAN FICTION, THIS SERIES RECEIVED SEVERAL FILM ADAPTIONS STARRING DAKOTA JOHNSON AND JAMIE DORNAN
Fifty Shades of Grey
THIS WRITER, HAVING WRITTEN WORKS SUCH AS THE TIME MACHINE & THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, IS OFTEN CALLED THE “FATHER OF SCIENCE FICTION”
H. G. Wells
WHAT’S THE NAME OF THE AMULET DOCTOR STRANGE WEARS AROUND HIS NECK
The Eye of Agamotto
WHICH WRITER AND PRODUCER OF SHOWS SUCH AS “BREAKING BAD” AND “THE X-FILES” GREW UP IN FARMVILLE AND ATTENDED A LABORATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RUN BY LONGWOOD
Vince Gilligan
THIS FILM MARKED THE FIRST INSTANCE WHERE A STEPHEN KING BOOK WAS ADAPTED FOR THE BIG SCREEN
Carrie (1976)
JANE AUSTIN’S SENSE AND SENSIBILITY WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED UNDER WHAT PSEUDONYM
"By a Lady"
WHO IS THE FIRSTBORN CHILD OF ODIN
Hela
IN THE LATE 1800S, THIS LOCATION IN FARMVILLE WAS KNOWN FOR SELLING ITS “HEALING MINERAL SPRING WATER,” WHICH WAS SAID TO CURE GOUT AND KIDNEY STONES
Lithia Springs
Dancing on Water
As Details Become Available
Masters of War
Craig Challender (come see him next week at the Authors Series!)
ADAPT-INCEPTION! THIS BOOK, LARGELY BASED ON A FILM ADAPTATION OF A CLASSIC CHILDREN’S SERIES, REIMAGINED THE VILLAIN AS A SYMPATHETIC FIGURE AND WAS LATER ADAPTED FOR THE STAGE. THE STAGE ADAPTATION WAS THEN ADAPTED INTO A FILM.
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
CHARLES DICKENS PASSED AWAY BEFORE COMPLETING WHICH MYSTERY NOVEL, LEAVING THE IDENTITY OF THE CULPRIT A MYSTERY
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
STAN LEE MADE HIS FINAL CAMEO IN WHICH MARVEL MOVIE
Avengers: Endgame