Yappy Hour + Author Conversation: Melanie Kaplan with Jay Hancock: LAB DOG
Join us in the gardens out behind the Ivy Bookshop for a dog-themed happy hour ("yappy hour"!) and conversation with Melanie D. G. Kaplan, author of Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research. Jay Hancock will join Kaplan in conversation for this special event!
Bring your pup or make a new furry friend as we learn together about the breeding and use of beagles for biomedical research, drug and product testing, and education-- and how to envision a brighter future for them all.
Melanie D. G. Kaplan is a longtime independent journalist whose travel and science writing has appeared in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and National Parks magazine. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School, a 2021–2022 MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow, and a third-generation Washington, DC, native.
Jay Hancock wrote for the Baltimore Sun for 18 years. Now he writes about history and economics on Substack.
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Location
The Ivy Bookshop Gardens
5928 Falls Road
Baltimore, MD 21209
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