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Askren Book Club
2024-09-17 09:00:00 2024-09-17 10:00:00 America/New_York Askren Book Club Join us for our morning book club as we discuss The Wright Brothers by David McCullough. Barry Askren Memorial Branch Library -

Tuesday, September 17
9:00am - 10:00am

Add to Calendar 2024-09-17 09:00:00 2024-09-17 10:00:00 America/New_York Askren Book Club Join us for our morning book club as we discuss The Wright Brothers by David McCullough. Barry Askren Memorial Branch Library -

Join us for our morning book club as we discuss The Wright Brothers by David McCullough.

Join us for our morning book club as we discuss The Wright Brothers by David McCullough.

From Amazon: In this “enjoyable, fast-paced tale” (The Economist), master historian David McCullough “shows as never before how two Ohio boys from a remarkable family taught the world to fly” (The Washington Post) and “captures the marvel of what the Wrights accomplished” (The Wall Street Journal). He draws on the extensive Wright family papers to profile not only the brothers but their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them. Essential reading, this is “a story of timeless importance, told with uncommon empathy and fluency…about what might be the most astonishing feat mankind has ever accomplished…The Wright Brothers soars” (The New York Times Book Review).

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Club |

TAGS: | discussion | book club | biography | askren branch | #askren |

Barry Askren Memorial Branch Library
Phone: (330) 791-7061
Hours
Mon, Dec 16 10:00AM to 4:00PM
Tue, Dec 17 10:00AM to 4:00PM
Wed, Dec 18 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Thu, Dec 19 10:00AM to 4:00PM
Fri, Dec 20 10:00AM to 4:00PM
Sat, Dec 21 10:00AM to 2:00PM
Sun, Dec 22 Closed
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