Public Library - Virtual Author Event with Matthew Shindell

The Moon captivates our collective imagination, serving as a calendar, a mythic deity, an artistic muse, and a scientific frontier. Join us for a fascinating virtual conversation with Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum curator Matthew Shindell as we delve into his book, Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps, and Matter.

President John F. Kennedy’s rousing “We will go to the Moon” speech in 1961 before the US Congress catalyzed the celebrated Apollo program, spurring the US Geological Survey’s scientists to map the Moon. Over the next eleven years a team of twenty-two, including a dozen illustrator-cartographers, created forty-four charts that helped set the course of space exploration.

For the first time, each of those beautifully hand-drawn, colorful charts is presented together in one stunning book. https://www.orangecountyva.gov/calendar.aspx?EID=5786

Community event in Orange, Orange County, VA 22960.