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Author Keith Stahl
September 17
SU and Writer s Voice creative writing professor Keith Stahl launches his new novel Dear Future Occupants a wild and weird ride poignantly exploring themes of family sexuality and addiction When Bud uses his wife s inheritance to purchase a diner in hopes of proving himself he relocates his family to his conservative fictional hometown of Greenhill ...
Make a Thing at the Golden Bee Bookshop
September 17
Every Thursday night is Social Self Care Thursday at the Golden Bee Bookshop The third Thursday of each month is for making something new It can be hard to pick up a fun new hobby when there s not enough time in the day Join Casey and the occasional guest host for an hour each month to learn something or make something Creative exploration meets ca ...
Saratoga Schaefer BOOK RELEASE & SIGNING
September 20
Saratoga Schaefer author of the cult hits Trad Wife and Serial Killer Support Group will be at Parthenon Books on Sunday September 20th at 1 00 PM to sign copies of their new horror novel A Thousand Monstrous Forms and talk to readers Parthenon will have copies of all of Saratoga s books available No registration or fee required About A Thousand Mo ...
Communal History IS American History
September 22
Communal History IS American History A Communities In Conversation ProgramReady to explore America s most fascinating social experiments Then don t miss the exclusive premiere of our new series Communities in Conversation We re kicking things off with Thomas Guiler who will take us on a whirlwind tour of American history through the lens of intenti ...
Salt City Books & Brews: September Meeting
September 23
Welcome to Salt City Books Brews We meet monthly to talk about our current pick share what we re reading on our own swap recommendations build our lists and hang out over drinks and good conversation No pressure no homework stress just books brews and a great group of people Thinking about joining All are welcome anytime Our next Meeting is on Wedn ...
Author John Jenkins
September 24
Join us as we welcome author John A Jenkins to Parthenon Books for his latest book release Summer of 71 Five Months that Changed America John will be in conversation with Larry Bousquet and signing copies John A Jenkins is a multi award winning journalist author publisher and entrepreneur With a specialty in partisans and power he s written hundred ...
Katie Jung BOOK RELEASE & SIGNING
September 27
Local Syracuse author Katie Jung will be signing and reading her new romance novel You re the One that I Haunt at Parthenon Books on Sunday September 27 Preorder your book from Parthenon to receive exclusive preorder incentives including YTOTIH bookmarks stickers and character art with your CUSTOM signed copy Both in store pick up and shipping are ...
Central Current presents: Laurie Woolever
September 30
Laurie Woolever has been writing about the world of food for nearly thirty years A graduate of Cornell University and the French Culinary Institute Woolever started as an assistant to chef Mario Batali helping him write cookbooks and launching her freelance journalism career in the New York Times Los Angeles Times and others She was an editor at Ar ...
Gallery Talk with Julia Kunin
October 1
Join featured artist Julia Kunin for a discussion of her creative process and the works featured in her solo exhibition Julia Kunin Electric Dream Machines More information coming soon About the Artist Julia Kunin lives and works in Brooklyn New York and Pecs Hungary where she conducts research and develops new work She received her BA from Wellesl ...
Revisit the Revolution: Lorenzo’s America 250th Speaker Series
October 1
Wade Katts The Historic Battlefield Presented a Very Peaceful and Prosperous Appearance The Role of Archaeology in Interpreting and Preserving Revolutionary War Battlefields Wade Catts President of South River Heritage Consulting in Delaware adjunct professor of history at Rowan University and co director of the award winning Red Bank Battlefield A ...
Speaker Father Greg Boyle
October 4
Join Auburn Public Theater to learn about the work of Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Father Greg Boyle heralding from Los Angeles Father Gregory Boyle a Jesuit priest is the founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles the largest gang intervention rehabilitation and re entry program in the world Born and raised in Los Angeles and Jesuit p ...
Engage with Gage Book Club: Women, Church & State - Chapter 5
October 7
April Nov Engage With GageTo celebrate Matilda s 200th Birthday we will be reading her book Woman Church State in sections throughout the remainder of the year All sessions take place on the second Wednesday of the month and start at 5 30pm Participants are welcome to attend in person at the Gage Center or online via zoom Each session is 10 person ...
Horror Book Club at the Golden Bee Bookshop
October 14
Join us for the inaugural meeting of the Golden Bee Bookshop s horror book club We ll be discussing When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy One night Jess a struggling actress finds a five year old runaway hiding in the bushes outside her apartment After a violent bloody encounter with the boy s father she and the boy find themselves running for th ...
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson - Cosmic Collisions
October 21
All the things that go bump in the night and in the day And yes the universe wants to kill you On occasion these collisions asteroid comet impacts on Earth render life extinct Learn why and how this happens and what we are doing or not doing about it
SCRC Syracuse Symposium Lecture: "The Work of Being Human Together"
October 23
Kelly Hayes author of Read This When Things Fall Apart Letters to Activists in Crisis and co author of Let This Radicalize You will draw on her experience as an organizer movement educator and storyteller to explore how people sustain one another remain human together and expand their sense of what is possible in times of crisis Reflecting on recen ...
"Perverted Spiritualistic Forces" - John Humphrey Noyes versus William Hepworth Dixon in the Victorian Press - A Communities In Conversation Program
October 27
Perverted Spiritualistic Forces John Humphrey Noyes versus William Hepworth Dixon in the Victorian Press A Communities In Conversation ProgramBeginning in the 1830s Oneida Community founder John Humphrey Noyes successfully used the press to spread word of his religious and social innovations and OC serial publications shaped the community s public ...
Oneida Lake History
October 29
Author Jack Henke will share an overview of his recently published book Oneida Lake History Facts Fables and Photographs at the Oneida Community Mansion House on Thursday October 29 at 6 00 Henke will discuss Oneida Lake s importance in state and local history as he highlights groups of people who took advantage of the lake s bountiful resources Am ...
Revisit the Revolution: Lorenzo’s America 250th Speaker Series Dr. David Gellman: From Independence to Emancipation: The Jay Family and the End of Slavery in New York State.
November 5
Dr David Gellman the 2026 27 A Lindsay O Connor Chair of American Institutions in the History Department at Colgate University will discuss that as America s 250th gives way to the 2027 bicentennial of the final abolition of slavery in New York the moment is ideal to contemplate the relationship between independence and emancipation in the Empire S ...
Engage with Gage Book Club: Women, Church & State - Chapters 9 and 10
November 11
April Nov Engage With GageTo celebrate Matilda s 200th Birthday we will be reading her book Woman Church State in sections throughout the remainder of the year All sessions take place on the second Wednesday of the month and start at 5 30pm Participants are welcome to attend in person at the Gage Center or online via zoom Each session is 10 person ...
Sex, Communalism, and Utopia: How a 70s Commune Took Oneida into the Future
November 25
Sex Communalism and Utopia How a 70s Commune Took Oneida into the Future A Communities In Conversation ProgramFrom the beginning of the American experiment communalism and challenges to the status quo have formed a significant movement within American society The Oneida Community receives more attention than many of those groups partly because of i ...
New Light Family Values: Sex & Salvation in Revolutionary New England
January 26
New Light Family Values Sex Salvation in Revolutionary New EnglandDuring the past half century Protestant evangelical Christianity has become synonymous with conservative social issues From abortion to same sex marriage contemporary evangelicals seem singularly focused on regulating the reproductive bodies and sexual practices of their neighbors an ...
Unexpected Colonial American Composers: The Sisters of the Ephrata Cloister
April 1
Unexpected Colonial American Composers The Sisters of the Ephrata CloisterThe Ephrata Cloister founded in 1732 by Conrad Beissel was a celibate ascetic German speaking Sabbatarian commune in the wilderness of Pennsylvania Its residents produced a large corpus of choral hymns and motets and also published the third music treatise written in what is ...
Camphill and the Ever-Changing Face of Intentional Community
April 15
Camphill and the Ever Changing Face of Intentional CommunityThe Camphill movement is one of the largest and most dynamic networks of intentional communities in the world today Founded in 1939 by followers of the spiritual teacher Rudolf Steiner Camphill includes more than one hundred communities on five continents each offering a rich economic and ...
From Oneida to Ithaca: Enduring Themes in Intentional Communities
April 27
From Oneida to Ithaca Enduring Themes in Intentional CommunitiesHow do the challenges within intentional societies evolve over time and what themes endure as sticking points across generations of experimentation We will draw comparisons between the Oneida Community and the EcoVillage at Ithaca on themes that emerge time and time again in these cont ...