Author Reading 'Curveball' by Eric Goodman

When
Sat, June 29, 2024
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Author Reading: Curveball by Eric Goodman

WHEN: Saturday June 29th at 4pm

WHERE: CAP ArtSpace in the Tompkins Center for History & Culture on the Ithaca Commons - 110 North Tioga St. Ithaca NY 14850.

PRESENTERS: Eric Goodman

About:

Curveball: Joe and Frannie’s son, Jess, a lefthander blessed with a plus-plus curve, is on the cusp of being promoted to Joe’s old team, the New York Mets.

In this exploration of masculinity, sports, and family in three generations of Singers, Eric returns to several favorite motifs: baseball, Jewishness, and gay sons.

Eric Goodman has lived part-time in Trumansburg for the last 20+ years. He has worked professionally in many genres: novels, short fiction, journalism, narrative nonfiction/faux memoir, episodic television, song lyrics, even a rock opera. For many years, he directed the Creative Writing Program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Most summers he teaches prose workshops at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival. Curveball is his seventh novel.

Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing following the reading courtesy of Odyssey Bookstore.

This event is brought to you through our current exhibit 'A Sporting Chance: On and Off the Field'. Learn more at thehistorycenter.net/sporting-chance. On display February-December 2024

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Ithaca's Own Vintage Baseball Team

The History Center in Tompkins County hosted a vintage baseball showcase in the summer of 2022, welcoming the Bovina Dairymen and the Delhi Polecats to Taughannock park for an 1864 and 1892 baseball game. This year, we're excited to welcome back the Bovina Dairymen to compete against a team of Ithaca's finest vintage ball players.

We're actively recruiting community members (no experience necessary!) to fill out our vintage team for Saturday, August 17th at Taughannock Park. This promises to be an exciting living history athletic endeavor - we need you to stand up for Ithaca!

COVID-19 POLICY - The History Center will follow the most up to date guidance from the Tompkins County Health Department. Our organization is a mask friendly space and encourage visitors to practice what is most comfortable to them regarding mask wearing. Learn more at thehistorycenter.net/health. The event space can hold up to 45 people. There is no current plan to offer a virtual option for this program.

The History Center in Tompkins County's current exhibit and programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This event will take place in the traditional and contemporary lands of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫˀ Nation (Cayuga), one of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Learn more at thehistorycenter.net/land-acknowledgement.