FARMVILLE HISTORY
WORKS, WE WROTE
BOOK TO FILM
BRITISH LITERATURE
MARVEL MANIA
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THIS CONVERTED RAILWAY NOW SERVES AS ONE OF FARMVILLE’S MOST POPULAR HIKING LOCATIONS

The High Bridge Trail 

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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 

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BASED ON GEORGE R.R. MARTIN’S A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE SERIES, THIS FANTASY SHOW AIRED FROM 2011-2019

Game of Thrones

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THIS PROLIFIC ENGLISH PLAYWRIGHT IS OFTEN CALLED “THE BARD”

William Shakespeare

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WHICH MOVIE STARTED THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE

Iron Man

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FARMVILLE IS HOME TO THIS LOCATION, WHICH IS THE 10TH OLDEST COLLEGE IN AMERICA

Hampden-Sydney College

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Shakespeare and the Theater of Pity

Love, Pity, and Deception in Othello

Richard Barnfield’s Petrarchism  

Dr. Shawn Smith

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BASED ON THE DYSTOPIAN WORKS OF SUZANNE COLLINS, THE FIRST FILM IN THIS FRANCHISE WAS RELEASED IN 2012

The Hunger Games

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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 

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BLACK PANTHER IS SET IN WHICH FICTIONAL COUNTRY

Wakanda 

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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

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Chicken Soup for the Soul

What the Potter Said

Lipstick 

Mary Carroll-Hackett

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ORIGINALLY PENNED AS TWILIGHT FAN FICTION, THIS SERIES RECEIVED SEVERAL FILM ADAPTIONS STARRING DAKOTA JOHNSON AND JAMIE DORNAN

Fifty Shades of Grey 

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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 

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WHAT’S THE NAME OF THE AMULET DOCTOR STRANGE WEARS AROUND HIS NECK

The Eye of Agamotto

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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

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Modernism and the Ideology of History: Literature, Politics, and the Past

The Lost Boys and Masculinity Found

’I Aim to Misbehave’: Masculinities in the ‘Verse

Dr. David Magill
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THIS FILM MARKED THE FIRST INSTANCE WHERE A STEPHEN KING BOOK WAS ADAPTED FOR THE BIG SCREEN

Carrie (1976)

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JANE AUSTIN’S SENSE AND SENSIBILITY WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED UNDER WHAT PSEUDONYM

"By a Lady"

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WHO IS THE FIRSTBORN CHILD OF ODIN

Hela

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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

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Dancing on Water

As Details Become Available

Masters of War

Dr. Craig Challender (come see him next week at the Authors Series!) 

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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

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CHARLES DICKENS PASSED AWAY BEFORE COMPLETING WHICH MYSTERY NOVEL, LEAVING THE IDENTITY OF THE CULPRIT A MYSTERY

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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STAN LEE MADE HIS FINAL CAMEO IN WHICH MARVEL MOVIE

Avengers: Endgame