Vigo County Public Library to take part in the "Big Read"

Vigo County Public Library to take part in the "Big Read"

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Reading for pleasure can reduce stress, increase empathy and even improve test scores for students.

That's according to the "national endowment for the arts".

It's why the organization sponsors the "big read" every year.

The vigo county public library is taking part in the initiative.

The n-e-a gave the library a grant.

They used it to buy thousands of copies of this year's read.

It's our town by thornton wilder.

Organizers say initiatives like this increases literacy in the community.

"it's important to have the whole community reflecting on the importance of literacy.

The messages that are portrayed in any of the books in the big read are things that will improve the community as a whole.

" the national endowment for the arts has payed for more than 15-hundred "big read" programs around