# Event Details - **Event Name**: AUTHORS THOMAS S. MULLANEY AND JAMES M. TABOR IN DISCUSSION - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 24 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm - **Event Description**: Please join us on June 24th at 11 am as authors Thomas S. Mullaney and James M. Tabor discuss their newest releases: "How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information" AND "Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age" "How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information" is a brilliant foray into the nature of information, of history, and of making meaning in the face of death and decay. When world-renowned scholar Thomas S. Mullaney “lost” both his parents, he began thinking of how information―all the stuff that makes us, that we make, and that we leave behind―ultimately disappears. The information that makes up our lives, from mundane official documents, poignant family photos, and sentimental artifacts to the cues embodied in our genes, both defines us, and inevitably decays, no matter the medium. Everything that we put “in formation” eventually collapses into randomness. Never is this more evident than in the wake of a parent’s death. Yet from all these elusive, even evanescent, data points, history is written and a future is made. How We Disappear is a wide-ranging examination of the micro and macro, toggling between storytelling from Mullaney’s own life and his reflection on the science of entropy and the nature and history of information. Lyrical and poignant, the book offers inspiring and eye-opening insight on the miracle of existence, and on what it means to forge meaning from a chaotic universe. "Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age" tells the thrilling story of the nineteenth century’s Apollo moonshot: an Atlantic-spanning telegraph cable that created the global village and changed the world. In 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing like it had ever been attempted. Field knew nothing about telegraphy, electricity, ships, or oceans, and science itself still lacked a universal theory of electricity. But he believed that wiring the world for near-instantaneous communication would bring about peace on Earth. In 1866, after enduring over a decade of global scorn, catastrophic failures, staggering losses, and brushes with death, he would finally lay his great cable, ushering in the global information age. From acclaimed author James M. Tabor, Lightning Beneath the Sea is an unforgettable tale of radical vision, unwavering determination, and triumph against overwhelming odds that transformed life on Earth forever. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/peterborough/authors-thomas-s-mullaney-and-james-m-tabor-in-discussion/200030072019410 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, sports, science-fair, business, storytelling - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 8 ## Ticket Details ## Event venue details - **city**: Peterborough - **state**: NH - **country**: United States - **location**: 12 Depot Sq, Peterborough, NH, United States, New Hampshire 03458 - **lat**: 42.87631 - **long**: -71.94919 - **full address**: 12 Depot Sq, Peterborough, NH, United States, New Hampshire 03458 ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: AUTHORS THOMAS S. MULLANEY AND JAMES M. 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Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Peterborough, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If AUTHORS THOMAS S. MULLANEY AND JAMES M. TABOR IN DISCUSSION sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "AUTHORS THOMAS S. MULLANEY AND JAMES M. 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