Gerald Sweeney will give a talk titled “Brain Ignition – Intellectual Upheaval Among the Young” for the Academy for Lifelong Learning at the Van Lennep Auditorium, Steamboat Gallery at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum on October 10 at 10:30 a.m. Sweeney is the author of The Columbiad, a series of novels about the journey of an Irish-American family through the 20th Century. The first novel in the series, Eagles Rising, is a retelling of his family’s beginnings in America. The next, First Lights, is a “coming-of-age” novel set mainly in Manhasset, and asks the question of how a kid finds courage to overcome a bad early start. Book 3 is Crashing into Sunrise and is the Long Island story of a rowdy kid finding fulfillment through the arts and the life of the mind. Skipping to Book Six, Yo Columbia is a love story between an older guy and young brown woman. The unlikely pair is on a quest to find Scott Joplin’s lost operas.
Gerald Sweeney, a native of the Midwest, grew up on Long Island and now resides in Trappe, Maryland. Within the last six years, he has published five novels through Booklocker.com. Sweeney’s has also published pieces in the former LI Sunday supplement of Newsday, the Chattahoochee Review, True, Long Island, Madison Avenue, the East Hampton Star and the NY Times Op Ed Page.
For more information about this lecture, the Academy for Lifelong Learning, and the other courses being offered this fall, call the CBMM at 410-745-2916 or download a catalog online at https://www.cbmm.org/all. Also on Facebook at facebook.com/academy for lifelong learning at cbmm.org.
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