Supporting Community Thro​ugh Reading

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Welcome


Welcome to The Virginia Yerxa Community Read website. The VYCR seeks to promote reading, and support our community, through an annual book-in-common experience.




"Spring meant work, summer meant harvest, fall a time for gratitude, and winter a pause for reflection."


The 2024 Virginia Yerxa Community Read Committee selection is David Mas Masumoto’s Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm as the 2024 book-in-common. First appearing in 1987 as an essay in the LA Times, the memoir was published in book form in 1996. Almost three decades later,Epitaph for a Peach reads as poetically as ever, capturing the tenacity, flexibility, and resolve it takes to keep a family farm running in California. 


For a list of Read Day events and other related programs,click here


Each year, the Virginia Read Day events are free to the public, thanks to the support of generous donors and sponsors.  For a list of those are helping to build the 2024 events, click here

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Do you have a suggestion for next year's read? Please let us know!