Join us for Skyscrapers' January Monthly Meeting and Holiday Potluck

at 

The North Scituate Community House

Saturday, January 3, 2026

Featuring Author Eddie Guimont, Professor, Bristol Community College

Doors Open @ 4:30pm

Dinner @ 5:00pm

Presentation @ 6:00pm

RSVP Kathy Siok

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Time: Jan 3, 2026 05:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Bio:
Dr. Edward Guimont is chair of the Department of History and Cultural Studies at Bristol Community College in Fall River, Massachusetts. He is a historian of colonialism and science, as well as a scholar on Providence weird fiction author H. P. Lovecraft. With Horace Smith, he is coauthor of the monograph When the Stars Are Right: H. P. Lovecraft and Astronomy (Hippocampus Press, 2023). His next book, The Power of the Flat Earth Idea, will be published in 2026 by Palgrave Macmillan.

Abstract:
Mark Twain was born in 1835, the same year Halley’s Comet appeared. Near the end of his life, Twain became convinced he would die with the comet’s return in 1910, which he did. This talk will explore not only the cultural impact of comets during Twain’s life, but Twain's broader interest in astronomical discoveries of his day, which astronomy books he read, fiction he wrote that dealt with astronomy, and which works of early space fiction he read.