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First Wednesdays Manchester
Last Updated 3/6/2013 4:18:11 PM
Location: First Congregational Church
3624 Main Street, Manchester • Library phone: 802.362.2607
Manchester Schedule (pdf) • 7:00 p.m. on the first Wednesday of every month
October 3
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Willa Cather’s Prairie Landscapes
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The European immigrant farmers in My Antonia and Cather’s other novels fail nearly as often as they succeed. Amherst College professor Michele Barale examines the relation between Cather’s art and her very tangible earth. |
November 1 (Thursday)
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Champlain’s Dream
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Acclaimed historian and biographer David Hackett Fischer brings to life the remarkable Samuel de Champlain —soldier, spy, master mariner, explorer, cartographer, artist, and Father of New France. Sponsor: Lake Champlain Basin Program (Partial funding for this project comes from an Education and Outreach grant from the Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership)
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December 5
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Monkeys, Mathematics, and Mischief: What Are the Lifelong Lessons of Education?
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Why do we compartmentalize the humanities, arts, and sciences when they possess more in common than not? Author and Williams College professor of mathematics Edward Burger looks at how we can apply life lessons learned in math (and beyond) to see our world and ourselves more clearly. Sponsor: Northshire Bookstore |
January 2
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Margaret Bourke-White, Courageous Photographer
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Actress and educator Sally Matson portrays Margaret Bourke-White, whose influential images of industry, war zones, and world leaders established her as a groundbreaking photographer in the 1930s to 1950s. |
February 6
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An Evening of George Gershwin
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In this performance lecture, pianist Michael Arnowitt explores the music and era of American composer George Gershwin and performs An American in Paris and Rhapsody in Blue, among other compositions. |
March 6
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The Marshall Plan Revisited
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Mark A. Stoler, editor of George Marshall’s papers and UVM professor emeritus, examines the Marshall Plan of the late 1940s and early 1950s, generally considered one of the most successful programs in the history of American foreign relations. Sponsor: Keelan Family Foundation |
April 3
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Religion and Identity in the Middle East
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Former president of Kenyon and Carleton Colleges and religion scholar Rob Oden considers how constructs from the ancient Middle East inform Westerners’ identity, the Middle East’s transition to Islam, and what Islam shares with and how it departs from Judaism and Christianity. |
May 1
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What Women Want
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Drawing on Buddhism, Jung, feminist writings, and her own work as a psychotherapist, author Polly Young-Eisendrath argues that most women don't know what they want because society has programmed them simply to want to present a desirable image. |
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First Wednesdays is supported in part by the Institute of Museum & Library Services
through the Vermont Department of Libraries
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