Exhibitionist's Book Club: The Underground Railroad
Thursday, September 5: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
This month we’re talking about Colson Whitehead’s fabulist, speculative novel The Underground Railroad. The pulitzer-prize winning novel is an alternate history of the antebellum south imagining what if the underground railroad was a real rail transit system. The book pairs beautifully with the museum’s current exhibition, “All Aboard: The Railroad in American Art”. Copies available at the front desk and all book club members get a free admission to see the gallery. Check it out in advance of the discussion as the book talk will coincide with the exhibit. Discussion lead by Kat Redniss of the museum and the Pierson Library’s Jasper. New members welcome!
National Iguana Awareness Day: Godzilla Movies
Saturday, September 7: 10:30 am - 3:45 pm
The internet says that Sunday is National Iguana Awareness Day. In anticipation, we’re doing a Godzilla movie marathon in Town Hall! Bring your besties, munch on popcorn, and enjoy a triple feature of the great lizard king’s greatest hits. We’re talking King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) – oh the rubber-suitness of it all! Godzilla vs. Destroyah (1995) will also be shown and this one’s an unexpected tearjerker! And third to be screen is this year’s Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, a Hollywood, hollow earth, CGI, kaiju slugfest. Drop in or stay for all three to get your bag prize including your official “I Survived the National Iguana Day Godzilla Movie Marathon at the Pierson Library” t-shirt.
Choose Your Own Adventure Writing Group: Book Unveiling and Interactive Reading
Saturday, September 7: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
The moment is here! Karen Poulin, Karlie Kauffeld, Lisa Hock, Kathy Hernandez, & Jasper Oliver were hard at work all summer writing a choose-your-own-adventure style novella together at the Pierson Library and now Project Go! and the Realm of Kajalis is here and ready to make its debut in the world. This will be an interactive reading in which the audience chooses their own adventure together! Appropriate for all ages, but especially 10+.