# 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


## 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 gallery

- **Alt text**: Book Discussion - The Things They Carried
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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Book Discussion - The Things They Carried being held?
  - **A:** Book Discussion - The Things They Carried takes place on Tue, 24 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Tue, 24 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm at 188 E Michigan Ave, Galesburg, MI, United States, Michigan 49053.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Book Discussion - The Things They Carried?
  - **A:** Book Discussion - The Things They Carried is organized by Galesburg Charleston Memorial District Library.

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