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Reading can spark imagination, open up perception and stimulate conversation especially within book clubs.
Books clubs help build a sense of community while expanding a participant’s worldview. Since the pandemic, book clubs have been meeting on Zoom, allowing second-home owners and other friends and family who don’t live in Eagle County year-round to join from out of state. For example, Vail Public Library’s Books ‘n’ Bites club has about 23 members about 10 regulars from as far as Kentucky, California and North Dakota.
“It gives people a sense of community,” said Lori Barnes of the Vail Public Library.
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Robert Curzon was a traveller, diplomat and author who was responsible for acquiring several important and late Biblical manuscripts in the 19th century. In 1833, he arrived in Alexandria, Egypt, before visiting Cairo and the Coptic monasteries of the area. In search of biblical relics, Curzon travelled to a nearby deprived Egyptian monastery, but he uncovered much more than what he had hoped for.
His incredible journey was unravelled by archaeologist Dr Jeff Rose during the Smithsonian Channel s Bible Hunters: In Search for Truth series.
EGYPT was at the centre of an extraordinary find when a treasure trove of important Christian manuscripts was found, including one that was reportedly never included in the Bible .