Archive for October, 2015
Sunday
Oct
25
2:00 pm
Willem Lange – “A Yankee Notebook”
Willem Lange has worked as a ranch hand, Adirondack guide, preacher, construction laborer, cab driver, bookkeeper, and bartender. After graduating from the College of Wooster in Ohio in 1962, he taught high school English in northern New York, filling in...
Thursday
Oct
22
7:00 pm
Russell Powell – “Discover the Apples of New England”
Author Russell Steven Powell will read from his book Apples of New England about our region’s rich tradition of apple growing, and the “fathers” of American apples, Massachusetts natives John Chapman (“Johnny Appleseed”) and Henry David Thoreau. Powell will also...
Sunday
Oct
18
2:00 pm
Dylan Craig – “The Return of the Hessians”
The figure of the Hessian soldier is a staple of the Revolutionary War mythos, and distancing the inhabitants of the "land of the free" from Britain's "hirelings and slaves" was a cornerstone of early American efforts at establishing a political identity. Globally,...
Thursday
Oct
15
7:00 pm
Haley Sweetland Edwards – “Dancing on the Heads of Snakes”
What does Yemen's collapse mean for Americans, al-Qaeda, and stability in the Middle East? Drawing on years of on-the-ground reporting, the talk will be about the current political, economic, and cultural realities in Yemen. I hope to flesh out recent...
Wednesday
Oct
14
11:45 am
Daniel Korschun – “WE ARE MARKET BASKET”
“WE ARE MARKET BASKET: The Story of the Unlikely Grassroots Movement that Saved a Beloved Business,” by Daniel Korschun & Grant Welker explores arresting firsthand accounts from the streets and executive suites, We Are Market Basket is as inspiring as...
Saturday
Oct
10
2:00 pm
Tim Z. Hernandez – “Searching for the Real Mexican Girl”
In 2010, author Tim Z. Hernandez located the real woman behind Jack Kerouac’s “Terry” from On the Road. At age 92, Bea Franco was living in relative obscurity, in Fresno, California. In this presentation, Hernandez will share his journey from...
Sunday
Oct
4
2:00 pm
Meg Noonan – “The Coat Route: Craft, Luxury & Obsession on the Trail of a $50,000 Coat”
When journalist Meg Lukens Noonan learned of an unthinkably expensive, entirely handcrafted overcoat that a fourth-generation tailor had made for one of his longtime clients, she set off on an adventure to understand its provenance, and from that impulse unspooled...