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First Friday Genealogy
Fri, September 6, 2019 12:00 P.M.
Independence Library
Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an enthusiastic group of amateur genealogists.
Adult Discussion and Participation Genealogy General Research
Malcolm Gladwell | Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
Thu, September 26, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Irvine Auditorium | 3401 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Cost: $30 - $60 book included with ticket
Tickets on sale September 9, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. With “an uncanny ability to simplify without being simplistic” ( Seattle Times ), Malcolm Gladwell synthesizes academic research and critical analysis with engaging prose and relatable anecdotes to fashion surprisingly counterintuitive…
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Fri, October 4, 2019 12:00 P.M.
Independence Library
Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an enthusiastic group of amateur genealogists.
Adult Discussion and Participation Genealogy General Research
Patti Smith | Year of the Monkey
Mon, October 21, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut St.
Cost: TK
Tickets on sale September 9, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. Patti Smith—dubbed the “punk poet laureate”—won a 2010 National Book Award for Just Kids , a “moving portrait of the artist as a young woman” ( Los Angeles Times ). Her 1975 debut album, Horses…
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Fri, November 1, 2019 12:00 P.M.
Independence Library
Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an enthusiastic group of amateur genealogists.
Adult Discussion and Participation Genealogy General Research
Paul Hendrickson | Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
Mon, November 4, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Paul Hendrickson’s books include Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934–1961 , a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; Sons of Mississippi , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and…
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Erica Armstrong Dunbar | She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
Tue, November 5, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
In conversation with Lorene Cary , author of Black Ice , The Price of a Child , Ladysitting and the forthcoming Arden Theatre production of My General Tubman Erica Armstrong Dunbar is the author of the National Book Award finalist Never Caught, the story of Ona Judge, a young enslaved person who…
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Fri, December 6, 2019 12:00 P.M.
Independence Library
Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an enthusiastic group of amateur genealogists.
Adult Discussion and Participation Genealogy General Research