Meetings

Board Member Meetings

Friends meet at the Magnolia Point Clubhouse in Green Cove Springs on the last Tuesday of each month at 10:30 a.m.  The meetings are open to all members and guests. Please present your driver's license at the entrance gate and proceed to the Clubhouse restaurant, located in the basement.  

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Book Club Meetings

The Friends of the GCS Book Club meets on the third Wednesday of each month, at 10:30, in the GCS Senior Center Library.

  October 21:  The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times.

Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.

November 21:  The Woman Who Smashed Codes:  A True Story of Love, Spies, and the                                                Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies

In The Woman Who Smashed Codes, Jason Fagone brings to life Elizebeth Smith Friedman. A woman who grew up in a small town, the youngest of nine children, with a very unassuming name but rather big dreams. Determined to make something of herself she went to college despite her father telling her not to. After attending two colleges to get her degree in English literature Elizebeth decided she wanted to see if she could make it in the wider world. She tried over and over again to get clerical work or work at a library but was constantly unsuccessful. Just as she was about to give up and move back home she met George Fabyan, an eccentric millionaire that hired her to come and work with Elizabeth Wells Gallup on uncovering the Baconian secrets hidden in Shakespeare's works. Taking a leap of faith she agreed, and so began a journey that would lead to stopping gangsters during prohibition, catching Nazi spies and ultimately helping shape the way codebreakers work today. 

December 16:  Train Dreams

Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West―its otherworldly flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and bridge builders―this extraordinary novella poignantly captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life.

It tells the story of Robert Grainer, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century―an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime.

Now a major motion picture starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones―streaming on Netflix