Events for: 2021-2022
Past Events: 2021-2022
Saturday
4/9
2022
1:00 pm
Marjorie Turner Hollman “Finding Easy Walks Wherever You Are”

Sunday
4/3
2022
2:00 pm
“THE TAMBURITZANS”

Saturday
12/4
2021
2:00 pm
Matt W. Miller: “Tender the River”

Sunday
11/14
2021
2:00 pm
Jack Curtis: “Travel to Winesburg, Ohio: Sherwood Anderson’s Literary Masterpiece”
Published in 1919, Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio met with instant acclaim: H.L. Mencken wrote, “Here is a new order of short story – so vivid, so full of insight, so shining life-like, and glowing.” The collection of 22 short stories probed the hopes, dreams and fears of a small mid-western town in the 1880s with startling frankness and realism. It ushered American literature into the modern age, impacting novelists from Hemingway, Faulkner and Steinbeck to Philip Roth and Elizabeth Strout. The lecture will explore the book's engaging characters, themes, style and portrayal of the human condition and discuss why the book endures. It will also touch on Anderson’s life and the works of his descendants.
The lecturer (OR: Mr. Curtis) suggests reading or listening to Wineburg, Ohio's opening sections, "The Book of the Grotesque." and "Hands" before the lecture. (OPTIONAL: Each story is seven pages.)
-- Text (scroll past introduction)
https://www.fulltextarchive.com/page/Winesburg-Ohio1/#p12 -- Free Recordings "The Book of Grotesque": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUNrHS7tAs8 "Hands": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUXgC9zEw2o
https://www.fulltextarchive.com/page/Winesburg-Ohio1/#p12 -- Free Recordings "The Book of Grotesque": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUNrHS7tAs8 "Hands": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUXgC9zEw2o
NOTE: Limited to 18 guests and mask wearing is mandatory. Call 978-970 5000 to reserve you spot.
Wednesday
11/3
2021
7:00 pm
Eric Jay Dolin: “A Furious Sky-The 500 year History of America’s Hurricanes”

Saturday
10/23
2021
2:00 pm
Laura Petrovich-Cheney: “From Threads to Sawdust”

Saturday
10/9
2021
2:00 pm
Stephen O’Connor: “Writing in Kerouac’s Shadow”

Wednesday
10/6
2021
7:00 pm
Thomas Anderson: “Bee My Honey!” – Honey Bees, Pollinator Health, and the Great Global Honey Scam.”

Thursday
9/9
2021
7:00 pm
Erin R. Corrales-Diaz: “The Iconic Jersey: Baseball X Fashion”

Thursday
8/19
2021
11:00 am
“TREND N MOTION HIP HOP DANCE”

Wednesday
8/11
2021
11:00 am
“SHINE AND THE MOONBEAMS”
