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First Wednesdays Rutland
Last Updated 3/6/2013 4:19:53 PM
10 Court Street Library • Library phone: 802.773.1860
Rutland Schedule (pdf) • 7:00 p.m. on the first Wednesday of the month
October 3
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Ethan Allen and Lake Champlain
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Historian and author Willard Sterne Randall shares the remarkable Revolution-era history of Ethan Allen on Lake Champlain—from his arrival as a big game hunter, to his buying and selling thousands of acres of land, his leading the Green Mountain Boys in attacking Fort Ticonderoga, and to two decades of confrontation over statehood. 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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November 7
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The Original Renaissance Man: Understanding Leonardo da Vinci
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Famed for paintings such as The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci was also a dedicated observer and a prolific journal writer. Middlebury College professor Katy Smith Abbott considers what set him apart, then and now. |
December 5
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Building Monticello
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Thomas Jefferson never knew the Monticello we visit today—in perfect condition, impeccably furnished. Jefferson died so deeply in debt that his surviving child was forced to auction off the house and contents. Dartmouth College senior lecturer Marlene Heck explains the lifelong project Jefferson called his “essay in architecture.” |
January 2
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Daily Life in Prewar Nazi Germany
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Focusing on the prewar experience of non-Jewish citizens, Keene State Professor Paul Vincent examines how ideology and terror undermined human dignity, numbed self-awareness, and atomized German society. |
February 6
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McKibben on Climate Change
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Author and environmentalist Bill McKibben explains how both the science and politics of climate change have unfolded and are unfolding, here and around the globe. Sponsor: Anonymous |
March 6
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Fiction’s Getting to the Truth: Chris Bohjalian’s The Sandcastle Girls, Family History, and Armenian Genocide
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Acclaimed novelist Chris Bohjalian talks about his most recent novel. Sponsor: The Vermont Country Store
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April 3
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Literary Paris: the 1920s in the City of Light
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Dartmouth professor Barbara Will considers how Paris, long a beacon to writers, artists, and musicians, became a global meeting ground for creative individuals in the 1920s and a crucible for the artistic movement known as modernism. |
May 1
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The Evolution of Sports Writing
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Sports Illustrated senior writer Alexander Wolff traces how journalism’s “toy department” has responded to social movements, the rise of televised sport, and the digital revolution—from Grantland Rice to Bill Simmons. |
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