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First Wednesdays 2010-2011 |
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“Sharing Our Past — Shaping Our Future” Since 1974 |
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Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main Street, Middlebury, 7:00 p.m. on the first Wednesday of every month. Library phone: 802.388.4095
October 6 ~ The Library of Congress: The Ups and Downs of Jefferson's Legacy. Jefferson believed that a library shared by a nation’s citizens was necessary to a democracy. John Cole, founding director of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, explains how Jefferson’s belief, despite challenges, has again become central to the Library’s mission.
November 3 ~ What Did the Voters Really Say? Former ABC News correspondent Barrie Dunsmore examines the November election results, and considers how they may shape domestic and foreign policy and the 2012 presidential race.
December 1 ~ Potential U.S. Responses to Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions. Former Iranian Ambassador to the UN and Bennington College professor Mansour Farhang examines the current diplomatic impasse between Iran and the U.S. over Iran's nuclear enrichment program and considers possible responses.
January 5 ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald: American Dreamer. The American Dream is the subject of the great American novel The Great Gatsby. Dartmouth professor Barbara Will examines how that dream proved tragically elusive for the novel’s author, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
February 2 ~ The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt. TR Roosevelt ranks among the top five American presidents as well as one of the most colorful. Award-winning historical interpreter and UVM Marsh Professor-at-Large Clay Jenkinson portrays Roosevelt and takes questions from the audience. Sponsor: University of Vermont
March 2 ~ Welfare Brat. Dr. Mary Childers's childhood in the Bronx was marred by violence, alcoholism, and neglect. Referencing her own story, she discusses paths out of poverty and away from welfare dependence, as well as ethical issues associated with publishing memoirs.
April 6 ~ Poems of Faith and Doubt. Dartmouth professor Peter Saccio discusses belief and disbelief and issues of moral choice and divine grace as they appear in one poem each by Wallace Stevens, Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, and George Herbert.
May 4 ~ Daddy’s War. Dartmouth professor Irene Kacandes uses her own family’s story as a starting point to explore how the trauma of war, like the revenge of Greek gods, can visit each succeeding generation.
Program Sponsors: University of Vermont
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