Books on Tap
Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party by Edward Dolnick
Monday, July 27
6:30pm - 8:00pm
It's the book club with a twist! Enjoy fantastic drinks, a comfortable atmosphere, and a great discussion on a variety of compelling books. Age 21 and up.
This month's selection is Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World by Edward Dolnik. Our meeting location is Heartwork Brewing (1703 N. College Avenue, Bloomington).
Book summary:
"In the early 1800s, the natural world was a safe and cozy place, or so people believed. But then a 12-year-old farm boy in Massachusetts stumbled on a row of fossilized three-toed footprints the size of dinner plates—the first dinosaur tracks ever found. Soon, in England, scientists unearthed enormous bones that reached as high as a man’s head. Outside of myths and fairy tales, no one had even imagined that creatures like three-toed giants had once lumbered across the land—nor dreamed that they could all have vanished, hundreds of millions years ago. In Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, celebrated storyteller and historian Edward Dolnick leads us through a compelling true adventure as the paleontologists of the early 19th century puzzled their way through the fossil record to create the story of dinosaurs we know today."
Please contact Maggie Hutt at mhutt@mcpl.info if you have any questions about this program.