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Local History Book Club

The Underground River by Martha Conway

2024-08-07 18:30:00 2024-08-07 19:30:00 America/New_York Local History Book Club Good conversation, friendly faces and great books - that's what book club is all about. We're looking forward to seeing you at our lively and engaging book discussion. Main Library - Local History Space

Wednesday, August 07
6:30pm - 7:30pm

Add to Calendar 2024-08-07 18:30:00 2024-08-07 19:30:00 America/New_York Local History Book Club Good conversation, friendly faces and great books - that's what book club is all about. We're looking forward to seeing you at our lively and engaging book discussion. Main Library - Local History Space

Main Library

Local History Space

Good conversation, friendly faces and great books - that's what book club is all about. We're looking forward to seeing you at our lively and engaging book discussion.

The Underground River by Martha Conway

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Set aboard a nineteenth century riverboat theater, this is the moving, page-turning story of a charmingly frank and naive seamstress who is blackmailed into saving Ranaways on the Underground Railroad, jeopardizing her freedom, her livelihood, and a new love. It's 1838, and May Bedloe works as a seamstress for her cousin, the famous actress Comfort Vertue--until their steamboat sinks on the Ohio River. Though they both survive, both must find new employment. Comfort is hired to give lectures by noted abolitionist, Flora Howard, and May finds work on a small flatboat, Hugo and Helena's Floating Theatre, as it cruises the border between the northern states and the southern slave-holding states. May becomes indispensable to Hugo and his troupe, and all goes well until she sees her cousin again. Comfort and Mrs. Howard are also traveling down the Ohio River, speaking out against slavery at the many riverside towns. May owes Mrs. Howard a debt she cannot repay, and Mrs. Howard uses the opportunity to enlist May in her network of shadowy characters who ferry babies given up by their slave mothers across the river to freedom. Lying has never come easy to May, but now she is compelled to break the law, deceive all her new-found friends, and deflect the rising suspicions of Dr. Early who captures Ranaways and sells them back to their southern masters. As May's secrets become more tangled and harder to keep, the Floating Theatre readies for its biggest performance yet. May's predicament could mean doom for all her friends on board, including her beloved Hugo, unless she can figure out a way to trap those who know her best

AGE GROUP: | Adults (18+) |

EVENT TYPE: | History/Travel/Genealogy | Book Groups |

TAGS: | localhistorybookclub |

Main Library

Phone: 419.259.5200

Hours
Mon, Sep 16 9:00AM to 8:30PM
Tue, Sep 17 9:00AM to 8:30PM
Wed, Sep 18 9:00AM to 8:30PM
Thu, Sep 19 9:00AM to 8:30PM
Fri, Sep 20 9:00AM to 5:30PM
Sat, Sep 21 9:00AM to 5:30PM
Sun, Sep 22 Closed

About the branch
  • 69 Windows PCs
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  • 16 MACs
  • 20 children’s PCs
  • 6 children's early learning stations
  • 2 book scan stations
  • Making equipment
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  • 100 person Community Room
  • 214 person Large Glass Room
  • 312 person McMaster Center
  • 200 person McMaster Lobby
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  • 300 parking spots (includes 9 handicapped accessible spots)
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Upcoming events

Fri, Sep 20, 10:00am - 11:00am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Fri, Sep 20, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
McMaster Center and Lobby

Sat, Sep 21, 9:00am - 3:30pm
Meeting Room 1 (Large Glass)
Registration is now closed

Sat, Sep 21, 10:00am - 10:45am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Sat, Sep 21, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Teen Space

Sat, Sep 21, 2:00pm - 2:45pm
Creativity Lab (Children's Library)

Mon, Sep 23, 10:00am - 10:45am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Mon, Sep 23, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Meeting Room 2 (Minimum 15 Attendees, Capacity 48)

Mon, Sep 23, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
The Fred H. McDonald Community Room (Capacity : 30)

Tue, Sep 24, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Teen Space

Tue, Sep 24, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Atrium

Wed, Sep 25, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
The Fred H. McDonald Community Room (Capacity : 30)
This event is full

Thu, Sep 26, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
The Fred H. McDonald Community Room (Capacity : 30)
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Thu, Sep 26, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Meeting Room 2 (Minimum 15 Attendees, Capacity 48)

Fri, Sep 27, 10:00am - 11:00am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Sat, Sep 28, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Teen Space

Sat, Sep 28, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Creativity Lab (Children's Library)

Mon, Sep 30, 10:00am - 10:45am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Tue, Oct 01, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
McMaster Center and Lobby

Wed, Oct 02, 10:30am - 11:30am
Teaching Lab (Computers and Media)
This event is full

Wed, Oct 02, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Teen Space

Wed, Oct 02, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Local History Space

Thu, Oct 03, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Meeting Room 1 (Large Glass)

Fri, Oct 04, 10:00am - 11:00am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Sat, Oct 05, 9:30am - 1:00pm
Meeting Room 2 (Minimum 15 Attendees, Capacity 48)
This event is full

Sat, Oct 05, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Teen Space

Sat, Oct 05, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Creativity Lab (Children's Library)

Mon, Oct 07, 10:00am - 10:45am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Wed, Oct 09, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
McMaster Center and Lobby

Thu, Oct 10, 10:00am - 12:00pm
The Fred H. McDonald Community Room (Capacity : 30)

Thu, Oct 10, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Teen Space

Thu, Oct 10, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Creativity Lab (Children's Library)
This event is full

Fri, Oct 11, 10:00am - 11:00am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Sat, Oct 12, 9:30am - 4:45pm
Atrium

Sat, Oct 12, 10:00am - 11:00am
Meeting Room 2 (Minimum 15 Attendees, Capacity 48)

Sat, Oct 12, 10:00am - 11:00am
Meeting Room 1 (Large Glass)

Sat, Oct 12, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Teen Space

Sat, Oct 12, 11:15am - 12:15pm
Meeting Room 2 (Minimum 15 Attendees, Capacity 48)

Sat, Oct 12, 11:15am - 12:15pm
Meeting Room 1 (Large Glass)

Sat, Oct 12, 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Annex

Sat, Oct 12, 12:30pm - 2:15pm

Sat, Oct 12, 12:40pm - 1:40pm
Local History Space

Sat, Oct 12, 2:00pm - 3:45pm
Creativity Lab (Children's Library)

Sat, Oct 12, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Meeting Room 2 (Minimum 15 Attendees, Capacity 48)

Sat, Oct 12, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Meeting Room 1 (Large Glass)

Sat, Oct 12, 3:45pm - 4:45pm
Meeting Room 2 (Minimum 15 Attendees, Capacity 48)

Sat, Oct 12, 3:45pm - 4:45pm
Meeting Room 1 (Large Glass)

Mon, Oct 14, 10:00am - 10:45am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Mon, Oct 14, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Meeting Room 2 (Minimum 15 Attendees, Capacity 48)

Tue, Oct 15, 10:00am - 11:30am
Creativity Lab (Children's Library)

Tue, Oct 15, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Teen Space

Tue, Oct 15, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Studio Editing room 2

Wed, Oct 16, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Small Business and Nonprofit Workspace

Wed, Oct 16, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Teaching Lab (Computers and Media)

Thu, Oct 17, 5:15pm - 7:15pm
The Fred H. McDonald Community Room (Capacity : 30)

Thu, Oct 17, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Gallery

Fri, Oct 18, 10:00am - 11:00am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Sat, Oct 19, 10:00am - 10:45am
Program Room (Children's Library)

Sat, Oct 19, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Teen Space

Sat, Oct 19, 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Meeting Room 1 (Large Glass)

Sat, Oct 19, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Creativity Lab (Children's Library)