First Wednesdays 2008-9

“Sharing Our Past — Shaping Our Future” Since 1974

First Wednesdays on VPR

 

The following First Wednesdays talks are available for listening or download at VPR Presents:

 

Ken Burns: No Ordinary Lives with filmmaker Ken Burns (Brattleboro, 1/08)

 

American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joseph Ellis (Manchester, 12/07)

 

The Sounds of Spanglish with author Ilan Stavans
(Burlington, 10/07)

 

The End of Iraq with Ambassador Peter Galbraith
(Middlebury, 11/07)

 

War vs. Truth: Freedom’s Dilemma with former ABC News Correspondent Barrie Dunsmore
(St. Johnsbury, 5/07)

 

The Battle for Peace with Retired General Anthony Zinni (Montpelier, 12/06)

 

The Impossible Presidency: Presidential Greatness in the Post-Modern World with UVM Professor Frank Bryan
(Newport, 10/06)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Office in Montpelier

 

11 Loomis Street, Montpelier, Vermont 05602

802.262.2626

Fax: 802.262.2620

E-mail: info@vermonthumanities.org

 

2008-09 First Wednesdays Statewide Sponsors:

Vermont Department of Libraries

Windham Foundation

 

First Wednesdays is supported in part by the Institute of Museum & Library Services through the Vermont Department of Libraries