September 10: 8PM. No meeting at the library. We recommend you buy a ticket to the Shakespeare Festival play "Silent Sky."
Tickets usually sell out quickly, so please purchase your tickets right away if you plan to attend.
The play follows the true story of 19th-century scientist Henrietta Leavitt, whose breakthroughs in astronomy profoundly impacted the way we see the universe. Henrietta is torn between her family responsibilities and her soaring ambitions. Silent Sky is a celebration of science, female achievement, and family that shows us how one woman’s determination forever altered the course of scientific history.

The precise fact is that Henrietta Swan Leavitt was an American astronomer. Her discovery of how to effectively measure vast distances to remote galaxies led to a shift in the scale and understanding of the scale and nature of the universe. The nomination of Leavitt for the Nobel Prize had to be halted because of her death.