Sarah Wright: Alabama Cotton and Bemis Bags: Pieces into Quilt History Feedsack quilts represent the artistic expression of American women in a distinctive textile era, 1930‒1960, when quilts were created from colorful, patterned fabrics that started out as feed or flour sacks. Many of these bags originated in the cotton fields of Alabama with Bemis...

Honest to God: Religion and Denial that Climate Change is Caused by Us Data shows unequivocally that global warming is the result of human activity. The 2021 General Social Survey shows that a half of all Americans don't accept that global warming is caused by us. The main causes of this appear to be fundamentalist...

Albert Schweitzer and Reverence for Life: Love, Mercy, and Stewardship Bob Echols will introduce attendees to the great humanitarian, Albert Schweitzer, and his renowned ethos of a reverence fro life, the irrefragable tenet that all life is possessed of innate worth and value, and that our sacred duty as mankind is to serve as stewards...