Speaker: Dr. Harvey Joanning Humans have been changing the animals and plants they live with for over 300,000 years. This presentation will briefly summarize those changes and focus on how modern agriculture has evolved over the last 200 years. From simple hoes to plows to combine harvesters, the technology of farming will be described along...
Speaker: Cynthia Tucker A Republic If You Can Keep It, co-authored with Frye Gaillard, is a slim volume of essays describing our current political moment and the dangers to our democracy. How do we move forward from here? Cynthia Tucker is a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist who spent much of her career as a reporter, columnist...
Speaker: Patricia Foster Drawing from her new memoir, A Marriage in Startled Air, Patricia Foster explores how her husband’s rare cancer diagnosis transformed their marriage and brought his hidden childhood trauma and PTSD to light. As Patricia and David confront the past, they discover a new depth of intimacy. What emerges is something sweeter and...
Speaker: Tom Czekanski More than 600,000 soldiers died in the American Civil War, transforming how the military cared for its fallen and leading to the creation of two of the nation’s most significant cemeteries: Arlington and Gettysburg. This presentation explores the stories behind these hallowed places. Tom is a historian and retired curator from the...
