The Blue Hill Library and Blue Hill Books will present an event with Castine author and Professor of History, Clifton Crais on Thursday, July 9 at 7:00 p.m. in the library's Howard Room. Clifton will discuss his new book, The Killing Age, a sharp account of how our current planetary crisis emerged from the worst cataclysmic destruction in human history, which he terms the Mortecene—the killing age. “Drawing on years of scholarship and marshaling myriad sources across world history, The Killing Age turns our vision of past and present on its head, illuminating the Mortecene in all its horror—how it shaped who we are, what we value and fear, and the precarious present we inhabit today.” Clifton Crais is Professor of History at Emory University specializing in African and comparative history. This program is free and open to the public. Blue Hill Books will be on site with copies of the book available for purchase. For more information, contact Assistant Director Kayleigh at kayleigh.thomas@bhpl.net or 374-5515.