Episode 6 || One Book

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2014

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Annie and her attorney husband Jordan discuss the ramifications of wrongful convictions, a topic central to the plot of Picking Cotton, this year's One Book selection for Thomas County. For the uninitiated, One Book programs celebrate literacy by encouraging entire communities to read the same book; this month, Thomas County is reading the bestselling memoir Picking Cotton. Later in this episode, Katie and Annie list their top One Book suggestions for your community (and for future Thomas County One Book programs) -- it's a more difficult decision than you might think! And, for some extra credit: - A New York Times article earlier this summer mentioned the increasing "nosiness" behind jury questionnaires; would you be chosen for a jury? Take the quiz to find out. (Spoiler alert: Annie didn't make the cut.) - Follow along as our small town celebrates literacy and Picking Cotton. Maybe there's a One Book program in your city! Check the Library of Congress' listing here. - In town and want to join us at the Center for the Arts for our Picking Cotton author event? Tickets are on sale now! Purchase online here.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode six of From the Front Porch. I'm Annie Jones and today I am joined by none other than my husband
0:15.6	Jordan Jones who is an attorney in Tallahassee Florida. Jordan seemed the perfect guest today because we will be talking about one book Thomas County,
0:25.0	our town's one book reading project in which our whole community is reading Picking Cotton,
0:30.2	a memoir of injustice and redemption that revolves a lot around the legal community.
0:35.0	Later in the episode, Katie and I will get together to talk about our recommended reads for other community one book projects.
0:42.0	All right, let's get started.
0:44.0	Jordan, we have our own podcast today.
0:55.0	I know it's so fun.
0:57.0	Sometimes I think that if we just had a tape recorder on at all times it would make a very interesting
1:02.1	podcast. I think it would be funny but
1:03.8	it might be funny only to us. True. So today I am with my husband Jordan Jones to
1:11.2	record our episode. The reason for that is pretty simple. We are
1:16.7	celebrating a one book festival here in our town in a couple of weeks and the book is called Picking Cotton. It's a memoir of
1:25.7	Injustice and Redemption written by Jennifer Thompson, Canino, and Ronald Cotton.
1:30.4	The premise is pretty simple. Jennifer was a college student in North
1:34.7	Carolina when she was sexually assaulted and she chose Ronald Cotton out of a
1:39.4	lineup. Eleven years later, after Ronald had been in prison for that period of time,
1:45.0	DNA exonerated Ronald and he was found innocent.
1:49.0	So he spent 11 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. So the book talks about Jennifer's story,
1:55.2	Ronald's story, but then it also really focuses on their forgiveness of one another and
2:01.0	their ultimate friendship with one another. But the book really
2:04.8	begins with some legal problems and so it felt like it would be fun to have
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