Summer Movie in Binney Park: “Captain America: Brave New World”
Pack your picnic and grab your blankets and chairs! Our second movie of summer 2025 will be Captain America: Brave New World, rated PG-13, running 118 minutes. The movie will be shown on Saturday, August 16, at 8:30 pm, Binney Park, Old Greenwich. Free admission.
In the event of inclement weather, the movie will be canceled. Any cancellation will be posted on the Library’s website, social media, and phone message. There is no rain date.
For more information, contact Judy Sgammato at 203-637-1066 x15 or judys@perrotlibrary.org.
GPW Book Discussion: “Lonesome Dove,” by Larry McMurtry
Missed Part 1 of our discussion of Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Lonesome Dove? No problem, you have the whole summer to read Parts 1 and 2! Join us on Monday, September 8, when we’ll discuss Part 2 of this great American novel. We’ll meet at 7 pm in the Program Room, Radcliffe Building, Perrot Memorial Library. Doris Mady of Greenwich Pen Women (GPW) will discuss the book with GPW President Adrienne Reedy.
A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America.
Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Native Americans, and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember.
Registration is required. Please register for Parts 2 and 3. To register, click here.
You may reserve a copy of the book through our catalog or purchase a copy from Athena Books. We also have several extra copies that we’ve ordered from outside the Greenwich system.
For more information, contact Judy Sgammato at 203-637-1066 x15 or judys@perrotlibrary.org.
Book Discussion: “The Broken King,” with Author Michael Thomas
Join us on Wednesday, September 10, at 7 pm for a book discussion of The Broken King: A Memoir, with Author and Associate Professor at Hunter College Michael Thomas. Mr. Thomas will discuss his new book with his Hunter College colleague, Associate Professor Kelvin Black. The event will take place in our Program Room, Radcliffe Building, Perrot Memorial Library.
Thomas’s memoir, The Broken King (Grove/Atlantic, 2025), about four generations of men in his family, traces the lives of these men against the backdrop of the last century-and-a-half in American history. From Reconstruction to the Jim Crow South and the Civil Rights movement, Thomas explores fathers and sons, lovers and beloved, trauma and recovery, race and deracination, success and failure, soccer, and the Boston Red Sox in a beautiful and unique memoir.
Michael Thomas is the author of The Broken King, a memoir about four generations of men in his family, and the novel Man Gone Down, winner of the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and a New York Times Top Ten Novel of the Year. His writing has appeared in A Public Space, The New York Times, and in Ben George’s anthology, The Book of Dads. Thomas received his BA from Hunter College and his MFA from Warren Wilson College. He is a professor of English at Hunter College and lives in Brooklyn.
Registration is required. To register, click here.
Copies of Mr. Thomas’s book will be available in our catalog and for purchase from Athena Books or at the program.
For more information about Michael Thomas, visit his website.
For more information about this program, contact Lisa Thomas at 203-637-1066 x20 or lisat@perrotlibrary.org.
