The Graphic Novel Reading Group will be meeting on Sunday, July 31 at 5pm to discuss Adrian Tomine's Killing and Dying, a series of short stories exploring loss, creative ambition, identity, and family dynamics.

The group will meet by the Garfield Park entrance to Prospect Park. Email graphicnovels.reading@gmail.com for details!

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Some surprising facts from Patrick Lamson-Hall's great class on the park's history:

• The north part of what is now Prospect Park was once a dumping ground for trash. People avoided it: It was smelly, and somehow, they thought this caused venereal diseases.
• Prospect Park is the only urban Revolutionary War battlefield that still largely looks the way it did at the time of the battle.
• After designing Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted managed a...

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Grime and Glory: A History of Prospect Park - Monday, November 3

Learn the Ropes Class at Brooklyn Boulders - Tuesday, November 4

A Dreadful History of Vampires, Werewolves, and Things That Go Bump In The Night - Wednesday, November 5

MADE IN NYC: The Reinvention of Local Manufacturing - Thursday, November 6

Family Tree Identification - Saturday, November 8

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