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First Wednesdays |
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“Sharing Our Past — Shaping Our Future” Since 1974 |
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Kellogg-Hubbard Library, 135 Main Street, Montpelier, 7:00 p.m. on the first Wednesday of every month. Library phone: 802.223.3338 Download Schedule -- PDF
OCTOBER 3 ~ Where in the World is Kingdom County? Vermont writer Howard Frank Mosher tells of how he first came to the Northeast Kingdom and discovered a fragment of a much earlier New England and Vermont, full of stories from the lives of some of the last independent-minded individualists in America.
NOVEMBER 7 ~ A Friend Acting Strangely: Climate, Animals, Culture, and Art in the Arctic. Climate change in the arctic is unusual in living memory but is not unprecedented historically. What is remarkable today, discusses anthropologist William Fitzhugh, is the rapid rate of change, and scientists and northern Native peoples working together in the search for answers. Location: Trinity Church. Sponsor: Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium and Sterling College
DECEMBER 5 ~ How the Romans Influenced the Founding Fathers. Retired Dartmouth Classics Professor Edward Bradley discusses ways ancient Romans felt predestined to impose their dominion throughout the Mediterranean world and compares this attitude to that of the Founding Fathers of the U.S. in the 1770s and 80s.
JANUARY 2 ~ The Enduring Appeal of Arthur. Canadian historian Jim Slocombe considers why King Arthur has been a recurring feature of Western Civilization for nearly fifteen hundred years.
FEBRUARY 6 ~ The Culture of Food in Rural China. Drawing on her own fieldwork, Middlebury College Professor Ellen Oxfeld explores the social and cultural importance of local foodways in rural China. Sponsor: The Single Pebble, Burlington. RESCHEDULED FOR APRIL 30, 7:00 PM.
MARCH 5 ~ Why Jung? Jungian analyst and author Dr. Polly Young-Eisendrath explores why the psychology of Carl Jung has had staying power in helping us understand ourselves.
APRIL 2 ~ Ikebana as a Contemplative Path. Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging, is not only an ancient art, but also a contemplative path to self-awareness. This lecture by Ikebana Master Marcia Shibata includes a slide presentation and the creation of an Ikebana flower arrangement.
MAY 7 ~ The White Mountain Huts. In this illustrated lecture, Dartmouth College Professor Allen Koop explains the Appalachian Mountain Club's hut system in New Hampshire, and how the huts and their people have formed a mountain society with its own history, traditions, and legends.
Program Sponsors: Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium and Sterling College A Single Pebble Restaurant, Burlington |
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