'Galileo’s Daughter' author will speak at LASM

• Advocate News Features staff
• Published: Nov 1, 2009

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Dava Sobel, author of the award-winning best-seller, Galileo’s Daughter, will speak at 2 p.m. today, Nov. 1, in the Adalié Brent Auditorium at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Galileo’s Daughter (Penguin, 2000) revisits the life of the great Italian scientist through the eyes of his eldest daughter, a cloistered nun.

Sobel bases her book on 124 surviving letters to the scientist from the nun.

For more information, call (225) 344-5272, ext. 125 or visit http://www.lasm.org.

LPB’s History Cafe set

“Huey and Hard Times: Louisiana in the 1930s” will be the theme of Louisiana Public Broadcasting’s next History Café at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, at Barnes & Noble, 2590 Citiplace Court.

The discussion will center around life during the Depression in Louisiana and the role the Civilian Conservation Core had in the creation of the State Parks System. The guest speaker will be Matthew Reonas, a history professor and parks historian, who specializes in the state’s history during the 1920s and ’30s.

The History Café is being held in conjunction with the American Experience series on the 1930s airing in November on LPB.

There will also be a special sneak preview of LPB’s new documentary A Summer of Birds, based on the book A Summer of Birds: John James Audubon at Oakley House by The Advocate columnist Danny Heitman.

For more information, contact Bob Neese at (225) 767-4274 or bneese@lpb.org.

Eggers to speak

The NOCCA Institute’s Center Stage series presents an evening with Dave Eggers at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6.