Upcoming Events

Free Screening of "Bad Faith" Documentary Ticketed Event February 12, 2025 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM EST Phoenix Theaters, Lennox Town Center, 777 Kinnear Rd, Columbus, OH 43212

February Book Club - Hillbilly Highway by Max Fraser Book Club February 26, 2025 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET Prater home, 2000 Malvern Rd, Upper Arlington, OH 43221 The February book will be "Hillbilly Highway: The TransAppalacian Migration and the Making of the White Working Class" by Max Fraser. Book club will meet on Wednesday, February 26th at 7:00 pm at 2000 Malvern Rd. and via Zoom. Sign up to receive Book Club notices and Zoom links at: https://secure.everyaction.com/Bs8BwbneEkuM2phj8pJHbA2 "Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial Midwest in search of work. ... Max Fraser recovers the long-overlooked story of this massive demographic event and reveals how it has profoundly influenced American history and culture--from the modern industrial labor movement and the postwar urban crisis to the rise of today's white working-class conservatives."

March Book Club Book Club March 26, 2025 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET Prater home, 2000 Malvern Rd, Upper Arlington, OH 43221 The March book will be "James" by Percival Everett. Book club will meet on Wednesday, March 26th at 7:00 pm at 2000 Malvern Rd. and via Zoom. Sign up to receive Book Club notices and Zoom links at: https://secure.everyaction.com/Bs8BwbneEkuM2phj8pJHbA2 "When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, who recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond."