Five Things, May 16: Brookline's Civil War Dead

1. Weather: The National Weather Service predicts a sunny day with a high near 80. The evening will be clear with a low 53.

2. : Mark Frost, author of The Greatest Game Ever Played, Lecture and Book Signing event. $15 per person includes hors d'oeuvres and spirits. Books will be available for purchase and author signing ($15). Held at the Clay Center at Dexter Southfield School, 20 Newton Street.

3. An evening with Bill Paxton and Mark Frost at Dexter Southfield. The Country Club, Dexter Southfield, and the Town of Brookline are pleased to host an evening with Mark Frost, author, and Bill Paxton, director of The Greatest Game Ever Played, a novel and movie based on the stunning true story of Francis Ouimet’s rise from working class caddy to U.S. Open golf champion at The Country Club. The event will take place on Thursday, May 16, at 6:00 pm in the Clay Center.

4. Remembering Brookline's Civil War Dead: Brookline’s 1884 memorial to its Civil War dead—restored, reinstalled, and rededicated in the lobby of Town Hall on Memorial Day 2011—lists the names of 72 soldiers and sailors who died at such places as Antietam, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, and the notorious Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. 

5. NT Live: THIS HOUSE: James Graham’s biting, energetic and critically-acclaimed new play strips politics down to the practical realities of those behind the scenes who roll up their sleeves, and on occasion bend the rules, to manoeuvre a diverse and conflicting chorus of MPs within the Mother of all Parliaments.