

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Book Discussion - The Things They Carried
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 24 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Event Description**: The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.

A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing.

"... [A] ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling."
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/galesburg/book-discussion-the-things-they-carried/200029664062932
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, health-wellness, Contests
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 2

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029664062932?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=galesburg-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Galesburg
- **state**: MI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 188 E Michigan Ave, Galesburg, MI, United States, Michigan 49053
- **lat**: 42.28863
- **long**: -85.41428
- **full address**: 188 E Michigan Ave, Galesburg, MI, United States, Michigan 49053

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Galesburg Charleston Memorial District Library (https://allevents.in/org/galesburg-charleston-memorial-district-library/21425582)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 24 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 188 E Michigan Ave, Galesburg, MI, United States, Michigan 49053
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Galesburg Charleston Memorial District Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, literary-art, health-wellness, Contests
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Book Discussion - The Things They Carried ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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