Sunday Lecture: Sarah Freeman Clarke
Sunday Lecture
“Sarah Freeman Clarke; Cobb County's Renaissance Woman”
Sunday, June 5, 2022
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Smyrna Public Library, Meeting Room
Speaker: Dr. William Marchione
This lecture will provide an account of the fascinating life and career of the painter, illustrator, author, New England transcendentalist, and world traveler who, Sarah Freeman Clarke. In 1893, in the latter years of her eventful life, after retiring to Marietta, Ms Clarke founded that city's Clarke Library, the first purpose-built public library established in this area, and the cradle of the Cobb County Library system.
Free admission. Light refreshments will be served.
The Sunday Lecture series is sponsored by the Friends of Smyrna Library.
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