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First Wednesdays 2008-9 |
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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 1 ~ James Joyce and His Self-Portrait. Dartmouth professor James Heffernan shows how Joyce recreated the first twenty years of his own life in his brilliant first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
November 5 ~ A Hundred Ways to Love One Hundred Years of Solitude. Amherst professor Ilan Stavans explores One Hundred Years of Solitude—perhaps the single most important Latin American novel, which renewed world literature and reinvented a continent.
December 3 ~ Stanley’s Red Pajamas. Before actors utter a single word, their costumes have already spoken volumes. Middlebury Artist-in-Residence Jule Emerson discusses the relationship between dramatic literature and costume design.
January 7 ~ Imaging Power: How Political Clout Has Been Conveyed in Art. Smart rulers have long known that art can create myths more powerful than reality. Dartmouth art historian Jane Carroll examines such art, including recent American examples.
February 13 ~ The Idea That is America. Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton and eminent foreign policy scholar Anne-Marie Slaughter argues that if an American renaissance is to happen, it will be due to a return to the bedrock ideals that fueled the American dream. Note: This talk takes place on a Friday and will be held at Town Hall Theater.
March 4 ~ Lake Champlain Voyages of Discovery: Bringing History Home through Archeology. Vermont State Archeologist Giovanna Peebles tells the story of a major project that brought home the history of Addison County’s eighteenth-century French and English settlement.
April 1 ~ Joy, Scandal, Sin: A Cultural History of Perfume. Dartmouth professor Richard Stamelman discusses the culture of perfume and the “scented imagination” from the eighteenth century to the present.
May 6 ~ All Politics Is Local: Family, Friendship, and Faction in Early Vermont, 1777–1791. Historian H. Nicholas Muller, III, explores how, before national parties, early Vermont politics often developed along family lines and through social ties, friendships, and business relationships.
Program Sponsor: Community Financial Services Group
Library Sponsor: Friends of Ilsley Public Library |
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