LECTURES SCHEDULED AT SEMO

A reading from a new book about small-town life and a lecture on the women's movement are scheduled at Southeast Missouri State University tonight.

Both events are free and open to the public.

Terry Teachout, a New York writer, will read from his book "City Limits: Memories of a Small-Town Boy." The reading, to be followed by a question-and-answer period, will begin at 7 p.m. at the Kent Library Little Theater.

Teachout, an editorial writer for the New York Daily News, is a native of Sikeston. His new book, published by Poseidon Press, is a non-fiction account of his growing up in Southeast Missouri, the trail that led the author from a small town to the nation's biggest city and the rural values that sustain him.

Mary Hill, a professor of history at Bucknell University and an American Council on Education Fellow, will give an illustrated talk on "A Woman's Search for Self: The Life and Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman." The event will be held in the University Center Ballroom at 7:30 p.m.

In her lecture, Hill will depict the historical struggle and success of the women's movement through a perspective of one woman's public and private life in the 19th century.