About Getting on the SamePage
The Albion community reading club, "Getting on the SamePage,” is designed to promote reading while helping
to develop a sense of community. Rod Ferguson, Albion Recreation Director, brought together individuals from the
community, the public schools, the public library and the college library to organize this new program.
"We celebrate our diversity here in Albion, but do we really cross the barriers of age, sex, class, race and
income to truly engage the people we share physical space with. All too often we stay within our social comfort
zone and convince ourselves that the world is the way we think it is, just because our friends agree with us. In
order to truly celebrate diversity, we need to talk to each other. One way to do that is by reading and talking
about a book. “
The founding committee chose The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis as the first
"Getting on the SamePage" book.
Other "SamePage" books have included:
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman
A Hope in the Unseen