Book Talk: Michael Dirda, “Sailing Into Harms Way” October 28, 2023 | 11:30 AMHarwood Center At the Lawrence Preserve | 301 South Mill StreetSponsored and Organized by The Book Plate  Want to read some thrilling fiction or nonfiction set during the age of the tall ships? Michael Dirda, a Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic for The Washington Post, […]

Book Talk: Adam Goodheart, “The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, And The Most Elusive Tribe On Earth” October 28, 2023 | 2:30 PMHarwood Center At the Lawrence Preserve | 301 South Mill StreetSponsored and Organized by The Book Plate  In November 2018, a zealous American missionary was killed while attempting to visit an island he called “Satan’s […]

Book Plate Book Talk: Nancy Taylor Robson, “Woman in the Wheelhouse” October 28, 2023 | 1:00 PMHarwood Center At the Lawrence Preserve | 301 South Mill StreetSponsored and Organized by The Book Plate  Nancy Taylor Robson is one of the first women in the country to earn a US Coast Guard license. She grew up sailing […]

Book Talk: Samuel Heed – “KALMAR NYCKEL: The Tall Ship of Delaware” October 28, 2023 | 10:00 AMHarwood Center At the Lawrence Preserve | 301 South Mill Street Samuel Heed, Senior Historian at the Kalmar Nyckel Foundation, will speak on his new book KALMAR NYCKEL: The Tall Ship of Delaware.  Featuring 200+ photos covering the full 25-year […]