September's book club meeting will be on a special day and time, for the month of September only.

The Sunday Assembly Gainesville Book Club will meet Saturday, Sept. 16 at 10:00 a.m. at the Pride Community Center of North Central Florida (PCCNCF) at their new location in the Springhill Professional Center, 3850 NW 83rd Street, Suite 201.

September's book is 400 Souls, edited by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain.
From Goodreads.com:

An epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, Four Hundred Souls is a chronological account of four hundred years of Black America as told by ninety of America's leading Black writers.

The SAGA Book Club will resume its regular schedule in October, meeting the 2nd Saturday of the month at 10:00am.

​Want to join the club? Contact Mary Nutter at: [email protected]

The Sunday Assembly Gainesville Book Club has chosen The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray as its August selection. The club will meet Saturday, Aug. 5 at 11am via Zoom.

From GoodReads.com:
The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian—who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. 

Interested in joining? Contact the club by email at [email protected]​.

Important Announcement for SAGA Members
Sunday Assembly Gainesville will not meet for an assembly in July. We will resume on Sunday, August 20 at the Pride Community Center of North Central Florida (PCCNCF). Please note their new location:

Springhill Professional Center, 3850 N.W. 83rd Street, Suite 201.
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More information regarding PCCNCF's move is available on their website.

Sunday Assembly Gainesville is pleased to have been featured in the Gainesville Sun/The Guardian February 24. The online edition ran a feature about SAGA's February assembly featuring local historian Peggy Mcdonald and her presentation “Carolyn Beatrice Parker: Gainesville's own hidden figure.”
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Read the full article (along with great photos!) at the link below.
https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/guardian/2023/02/20/gainesville-native-carolyn-beatrice-parker-was-topic-at-sunday-event/69922917007/

The Sunday Assembly Gainesville Book Club has chosen Battle for the Big Top by Wes Standiford as its December selection. The club will meet Saturday, Dec. 10 at 11 am via Zoom.

From GoodReads.com: 
Millions have sat under the “big top,” watching as trapeze artists glide and clowns entertain, but few know the captivating stories behind the men whose creativity, ingenuity, and determination created one of our country’s most beloved pastimes.

In Battle for the Big Top, New York Times–bestselling author Les Standiford brings to life a remarkable era when three circus kings—James Bailey, P. T. Barnum, and John Ringling—all vied for control of the vastly profitable and influential American Circus. Ultimately, the rivalry of these three men resulted in the creation of an institution that would surpass all intentions and, for 147 years, hold a nation spellbound.

​Interested in joining? Contact the club by email at [email protected]​.

Sunday Assembly is participating in the 2022 Pride Festival, Saturday Oct. 22, from noon to 8pm at the Bo Diddley Plaza, 111 E. University Avenue in Gainesville. 

These are difficult times for many marginalized people. Join SAGA as we declare that all people deserve to be seen, to be heard, to be recognized, and to be honored.

Meet us there!
More: https://www.meetup.com/gainesville-humanists-sunday-assembly/events/289090515/ 

The Sunday Assembly Gainesville Book Club has chosen "The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek”   by Howard Markel as its selection for October. The club will meet Saturday, Oct. 8 at 11:00 am via Zoom. 

Interested in joining? Contact the club via email at [email protected]. 

From GoodReads.com:
From the much admired medical historian ("Markel shows just how compelling the medical history can be"--Andrea Barrett) and author of An Anatomy of Addiction ("Absorbing, vivid"--Sherwin Nuland, The New York Times Book Review, front page)--the story of America's empire builders: John and Will Kellogg.

John Harvey Kellogg was one of America's most beloved physicians; a best-selling author, lecturer, and health-magazine publisher; founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium; and patron saint of the pursuit of wellness. His youngest brother, Will, was the founder of the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, which revolutionized the mass production of food and what we eat for breakfast.

In The Kelloggs, Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of these two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America's notion of health and wellness from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, and who helped change the course of American medicine, nutrition, wellness, and diet.

The Sunday Assembly Gainesville Book Club has chosen In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick as its selection for August. The club will meet Saturday, August 13 at 11 am via Zoom. Interested in joining? Contact the club via email at [email protected].

From GoodReads.com:
In 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale, leaving the desperate crew to drift for more than ninety days in three tiny boats. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents and vivid details about the Nantucket whaling tradition to reveal the chilling facts of this infamous maritime disaster. In the Heart of the Sea—and now, its epic adaptation for the screen—will forever place the Essex tragedy in the American historical canon.

Ron Cunningham has graciously shared his slide deck from June's assembly... the link is below.
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