This month's selection is Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehist oric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World by Edward Dolnik. O ur meeting location is Heartwork Brewing (1703 N. College Avenue\, Bloomin gton).
\nBook summary: Please contact Maggie Hutt at mhutt@mcpl.info if you have any quest
ions about this program.
"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 Mas
sachusetts stumbled on a row of fossilized three-toed footprints the size
of dinner plates&mdash\;the first dinosaur tracks ever found. Soon\, in En
gland\, scientists unearthed enormous bones that reached as high as a man&
rsquo\;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&m
dash\;nor dreamed that they could all have vanished\, hundreds of millions
years ago. In Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party\, celebrated storyte
ller and historian Edward Dolnick leads us through a compelling true adven
ture as the paleontologists of the early 19th century puzzled their way th
rough the fossil record to create the story of dinosaurs we know today."\n