ZOOM Public Forum Discussion with local author Gregory Gibson: 2.24.21 @ 7PM

Gloucester resident and author of Gone Boy will be our guest on Wednesday evening, February 24, 2021.

The public is invited.

Use this ZOOM link to join the forum using your computer: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86223881677?pwd=MElUNXlIWHJQQ3Ewa0RsZmNkUzZpUT09

Use this ZOOM phone number (with this passcode: 013542) to join by phone: 1-646-558-8656

"I think some of the issues raised in Gone Boy touch on all our lives, especially now that the pandemic has laid bare some of the fault lines in our society. As always, it's more than just a discussion about guns, which are in many cases simply the delivery system for the consequences of racism, poverty, injustice, and the madness they inspire.” ~Gregory Gibson

Last September, the Ascension Memorial Church Book Group began reading Gone Boy, which antiquarian book dealer and Gloucester resident Gregory Gibson wrote after his son, 18 year old Galen, was murdered by a fellow student gone berserk at Simon's Rock College in western Massachusetts in the early 1990s. Gone Boy, described by the New York Times as "a poignant, insightful, and admirably honest chronicle of a father's attempts to make sense -- in both large and small ways -- of his son's murder," captivated the Book Group, and led to its decision to invite Gregory Gibson to speak to the Ipswich community. Gibson has spent many of the years since his son's death talking with faith groups and others about the societal impact of gun and other violence, and what steps can be taken to address it.