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Lesley Wright has been leading discussions for the Vermont Humanities Council since 1991. A graduate of Middlebury College, she attended the Bread Loaf Writer’s conference, traveled and taught in Asia, published short fiction here and there, and currently manages an organic farm with her husband and two daughters.
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Series Led by Lesley Wright 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?
American Stories Across the Generations By Vermont Humanities March 16, 2018
This series focuses on the theme of relationships between children and older adults.
Posted in Bridging the Generations , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Brown , Burrington , Cerulli , Heneveld , hewitt , lang , Logan , luskin , McCloud , Mieder , RCohen , Schley , Wizansky , Wright
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
Booker Prize Winners By Vermont Humanities April 5, 2018
Established in 1968, England’s Booker Prize is awarded annually to a citizen of the U.K., the Commonwealth, Ireland, Pakistan, or South Africa who has written the year’s best novel according to a panel of critics, writers, and academics.
Posted in For the Literary At Heart , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Brown , Burrington , Cerulli , Clift , Craven , Gerber , Hays , Heneveld , lang , luskin , McCloud , Mieder , Pittman , RCohen , Schley , Wizansky , Wright
Canadian Cultural Diversity By Vermont Humanities April 5, 2018
Travel through Canada with four critically acclaimed books that make manifest Canada’s cultural diversity.
Posted in Cultural and Regional Exploration , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Brown , Burrington , Bye , Clift , Gerber , Hays , Heneveld , Logan , luskin , Mieder , RCohen , Schley , tortolano , 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
Farms and Gardens By Vermont Humanities March 16, 2018
These authors dig deep to explore the philosophical roots, family dynamics, and personal enrichment associated with tending and growing.
Posted in Consider This , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Berolzheimer , Brown , Cerulli , hewitt , lang , luskin , RCohen , Schley , 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
Get Real By Vermont Humanities March 16, 2018
These novels examine some of the harder facts of life in all their complexities.
Posted in Bridging the Generations , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Brown , Cerulli , Hays , Heneveld , hewitt , lang , luskin , Mieder , RCohen , Schley , Wizansky , Wright
Healthcare and Humanity By Vermont Humanities March 16, 2018
These four books, all used to acclaim in VHCs Literature and Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Healthcare program, speak to the experiences of the patient, the families, and the people providing care.
Posted in Consider This , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Brown , Burrington , Cerulli , Clift , Hays , Heneveld , lang , Logan , luskin , RCohen , Schley , Wright
Immigrants: Coming to America By Vermont Humanities March 16, 2018
These stories capture the experience of immigrants journeying to a new land, finding their place, and feeling at home
Posted in Bridging the Generations , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Berolzheimer , Brown , Cerulli , Clift , Gerber , Gonzalez , Hays , Heneveld , lang , Logan , luskin , McCloud , Mieder , RCohen , tortolano , Wizansky , Wright , Young
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.
Our free public events help bring the power of the humanities to communities across Vermont.
