Downtown Huntsville Library
We The Readers
Tuesday, March 3, 2026 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Celebrate the 250th anniversary of The Declaration of Independence this year at Downtown with a search for The Great American Novel.
This month we are reading Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, published 1927.
A towering work of twentieth-century American literature, Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop tells the story of the French Catholic priest Jean Marie Latour, the first bishop of the diocese of New Mexico, which was created after the Mexican-American War. With his friend and vicar Joseph Vaillant, Latour makes the long journey to the newly annexed territory of New Mexico. Once the cradle of the Faith in the New World, now old mission churches have fallen into ruin and a reduced priesthood lacks guidance and discipline. Latour and Vaillant encounter a strange and unfamiliar brand of Catholicism, but in time the two priests learn to adjust to the ways of New World Catholics and open their eyes to Native American religious ideas so seemingly distant from their own beliefs.
In Person- First Tuesday of the month at 1:00 p.m. at the Downtown Huntsville Public Library in the 2nd Floor Workforce Classroom
Virtual- Fourth Tuesday of the month at 6:00 p.m. online at GoToMeeting.