September Movie Nights
The Sheep Detectives – Wednesday, September 9 at 6 p.m.
Minions & Monsters – Wednesday, September 23 at 6 p.m.
Wednesday, September 16 at 4 p.m.
Beauty and the Dark: A Cancer Memoir of Traveling, Grieving, Loving, and Living is the story of Angela Amoroso’s experience living with metastatic breast cancer. Because she was not able to finish her story, her mother, Carol Hordis, has filled in the last few years of Angela’s life, sharing her own struggles as a parent as well as the joys of living with and caring for an adult daughter with terminal illness.
Carol will share wisdom and validation for other mourners, and encourage you to remain present to your own experience and to embrace the joy and beauty that appears alongside the darkness.
Thursday, September 10 at 6 p.m.
One of the last submarines built by the Simon Lake company and the first Navy vessel fitted with true piezoelectric SONAR, submarine S-49 served as a United States Navy ship for five years, testing innovative devices. Two politicians from Revere, Massachusetts, rescued her from the scrapyard, and she was exhibited at the Chicago World’s Fair and in cities on the Eastern Seaboard until World War II. Navy Research fitted up the sub so that she could dive again and used her for SONAR fuze testing until one day she could no longer rise to the surface. The sub sits at the bottom of the Patuxent River in Maryland to this day.
Stephen R. Wilk is an optical engineer and laser physicist living near Boston, Massachusetts. He has published books on mythology, weird optics, history, and young adult genre fiction. In this presentation, he will discuss the history of the S-49, including tales of her deeds, her battery explosion, her commanders, her wily civilian rescuers, and her life as an exhibition subject.Register for this event