Bring your little ones to an afternoon of fun with other children of Brown alums at Devon's Place Playground in Norwalk, next to Stepping Stones Museum. Join us on the afternoon of Saturday, May 9 from 3pm to 5pm (raindate Saturday, May 16 from 3pm to 5pm) and we will provide snacks, coffee, and drinks.

This event is free but we ask that you please RSVP so we know how people are coming.

Questions? Contact Tisola Reed '03 by email.

Date: Saturday, May 9 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Price: Free with snacks, drinks and coffee included

Location: Devon's Place Playground, 303 West Ave, Norwalk, CT

The inaugural Brown Club Book Group in April was such a success that we have made this a regular event on our calendar! Our next gathering will be on Thursday, June 11 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at Athena Books, owned by Brown alum Jen Bird '97. 

The next book will be Abundance by bestselling authors and journalistic titans Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to rethink big, entrenched problems that seem mired in systemic from climate change to housing, education to healthcare.

To trace the global history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a history of growing unaffordability and shortage. After years of refusing to build sufficient housing, the entire country has a national housing crisis. After years of slashing immigration, we don’t have enough workers. After decades of off-shoring manufacturing, we have a shortage of chips for cars and computers. Despite decades of being warned about the consequences of climate change, we haven’t built anything close to the clean energy infrastructure we need. The crisis that’s clicking into focus now has been building for decades—because we haven’t been building enough.

Abundance explains that our problems today are not the results of yesteryear’s villains. Rather, one generation’s solutions have become the next generation’s problems. Rules and regulations designed to solve the environmental problems of the 1970s often prevent urban density and green energy projects that would help solve the environmental problems of the 2020s. Laws meant to ensure that government considers the consequences of its actions in matters of education and healthcare have made it too difficult for government to act consequentially. In the last few decades, our capacity to see problems has sharpened while our ability to solve them has diminished.

Please register for our Book Group if you plan to attend. A nominal $5 will be charged per person so that we can provide refreshments and snacks. 

Questions? Contact Patricia Rattray '93 by email.

Date: Thursday, June 11, 2026 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Price: $5 per person

Location: Athena Books, 228 Sound Beach Avenue, Old Greenwich, Connecticut

Parking: Ample street parking is available