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John R. Turner recently retired from college work to try to write books. Some years ago he was the vice president at Vermont College in Montpelier, and more recently he taught in the Adult Degree Program there, concentrating in history and literature. His most recent publication is Letters To Dalton: Higher Education and the Degree Salesmen , a series of essays which explain how the managers of American colleges and universities have turned away from education.
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Series Led by John R. Turner 20th Century US Conflicts: The Rise of a Superpower By Vermont Humanities May 25, 2018
The Spanish-American War and its related conflict in the Philippines marked the debut of the United States as a world power. How have successive wars increased that power – or callled it into question?
B.I.G. (Big, Intense, Good) By Vermont Humanities March 16, 2018
A multi-session group is the ideal environment in which to relish these classic works of literature of a certain size and heft.
Posted in Big, Intense, Good , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Brown , Burrington , Bye , Cerulli , Clift , Frothingham , Gerber , Hays , Heneveld , hewitt , lang , Logan , luskin , McCloud , Mieder , Pittman , RCohen , Rossiter , Schley , Turner , Wizansky , Wright
China’s Transformation By Vermont Humanities April 5, 2018
How has the Chinas dynamic growth affected people, culture, the environment?
Experience My World By Vermont Humanities March 16, 2018
These books take the reader deeply inside the world of someone experiencing life differently from the rest of us. Topics include bipolar disorder, physical disability, and Alzheimer s disease.
Posted in Consider This , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Brown , Cerulli , Clift , Hays , Logan , luskin , McCloud , RCohen , Turner , Wizansky , Wright
Gastronomy: Novels about Food and Culture By Vermont Humanities April 5, 2018
These mouth-watering novels highlight how what we eat is closely aligned with who we are.
Posted in Cultural and Regional Exploration , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Brown , lang , Logan , luskin , McCloud , Mieder , RCohen , Turner , Wizansky , Wright
Memorable Memoirs: Take Two By Vermont Humanities April 5, 2018
The following memoirs use both traditional and unconventional formats to hone in on a specific feature of the each author’s life.
Posted in For the Literary At Heart , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Berolzheimer , Brown , Burrington , Cerulli , Clift , Gerber , Hays , Heneveld , lang , luskin , McCloud , Mieder , RCohen , Schley , Turner , Wizansky , Wright , Young
New England Uncovered By Vermont Humanities April 5, 2018
What lies hidden beneath the popular images of New England with its white spires and Yankee frugality? More than meets the eye!
Posted in For the Literary At Heart , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Berolzheimer , Brown , Burrington , Clift , Craven , Hays , hewitt , lang , luskin , McCloud , Mieder , RCohen , Schley , Turner , Wizansky , Wright
Our Civil War Legacy By Vermont Humanities May 25, 2018
Discuss the crucial final month of the war and how, but for a handful of important decisions and a good deal of luck, the outcomeof the War and of the countrymight have been very different
Posted in History Lives On , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Berolzheimer , Brown , Burrington , Frothingham , Hays , lang , Logan , luskin , Pittman , RCohen , Stoler , Turner , Wright
Outsiders: Those Who Fell Outside the Cultural Norm By Vermont Humanities March 16, 2018
This discussion series examines the treatment of populations outside the cultural norms of the late 19th and early 20th century America.
Posted in Consider This , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Berolzheimer , Brown , Cerulli , Clift , Craven , Hays , Heneveld , lang , Logan , luskin , RCohen , Turner , Wizansky , Wright
Pilgrimage By Vermont Humanities March 16, 2018
Discover a variety of journeys- and whether the seekers find what they are looking for- in these varied writings.
Posted in Consider This , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Brown , Burrington , Clift , Gerber , Hays , Heneveld , lang , Logan , luskin , McCloud , RCohen , Schley , Turner , Wizansky , Wright
Portraits of the Artists By Vermont Humanities April 5, 2018
These books feature fictional interpretations of famous artists.
Posted in For the Literary At Heart , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Brown , Burrington , Bye , Cerulli , Clift , Gerber , Heneveld , lang , Logan , McCloud , Mieder , RCohen , tortolano , Turner , Wizansky , Wright , Young
Retellings By Vermont Humanities April 5, 2018
These novels all re-imagine classics works of fiction, retelling them from a different character’s perspective.
Posted in For the Literary At Heart , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Brown , Burrington , Cerulli , Clift , Logan , luskin , McCloud , Mieder , RCohen , Schley , Turner , Wizansky , Wright
Vermont Humanities*** February 19, 2018
Poet Sarah Audsley joined us at the Taconic Mountains Ramble State Park for Words in the Woods.
Humanities Camps are filled with reading and writing projects, field trips, and outdoor activities.
We won a 2020 Schwartz Prize for best public humanities programming in the U.S. for Vermont Reads 2019: “March: Book One.”
We supported Historic New England’s “More than a Market” project that explored the experiences of new Americans through food markets.
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