CLARION, Pa. (EYT) — The Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Court #2454, of the Immaculate Conception Church in Clarion, announces their first Spring Book Review and Luncheon for this season to be presented on Wednesday, April 19.
The reviews are held from noon to 1:00 p.m. Doors will open at 11:45 a.m.
A light luncheon will be served before each review. The review and luncheon will be held in Immaculate Conception’s Our Lady of Clarion Center in the rectory basement. The basement can be entered on the Madison Street (alley) side of the building.
A monetary donation will be accepted at the door. Donations of non-perishable food items for local food banks are encouraged.
There will be items raffled and door prizes given at each review. Proceeds from these reviews will benefit the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, which will help the United Way provide books for local preschool children and Immaculate Conception’s Christmas Angel Tree. Everyone is welcome.
The first reviewer of this series, Pastor Harold “Jake” Jacobson is well known in the Clarion area. Rev. Jacobson has been the Pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Clarion for 34 years. He also serves as the assistant to the Bishop of the NWPA Synod and Director of Evangelical Mission for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
He is a former chaplain with the Clarion-Forest VNA Hospice. Rev. Jacobson volunteers extensively in the local community. He has written many church resources in evangelism and mission planning.
This year he is putting the finishing touches on his first book, Holy Conversation: An Introduction to Scripture for the Occasionally Biblically Embarrassed. His interests include wood carving, painting and drawing, writing, music, reading and golf.
Pastor Jacobson will review Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance. This book provides a look at the struggles that are faced by white working-class Americans. Hillbilly Elegy has become a best seller and favorite of book clubs and discussion groups.
One has to wonder why this memoir has attracted such popularity.
Characterized as a no-holds-barred snapshot of modern Appalachia, it has garnered plenty of backlash from both in and out of the region.
