Snacks and a Movie

 

Conrack is based on Pat Conroy's autobiographical novel The Water is Wide. In the late 1960s, he accepted a teaching job on a small island off the South Carolina coast and found that his school was essentially a shack, filled with illiterate students who could not count, and did not even know that they lived in the United States. The film shows the struggles he had in trying to find new ways to engage them and teach them, and the barriers that were placed in his way.

The film will start promptly at 4:15 p.m. to avoid interfering with the start of the Church Council Meeting. Please come in through the doors by the kitchen (Gunter Circle).