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Booked
for Lunch, 2009-2010 Season
Our popular lecture series, Booked for Lunch, starts again this month in the Fletcher Room of the Library on September 17 and will continue on the third Thursday of most months from noon to one p.m. Ranging from politics to cooking, this year’s topics look especially “appetizing”. Come and sample one! September 17: Bill Schubart – author of The Lamoille Stories: Uncle Benoit’s Wake and Other Tales from Vermont. October 15: Sue Halpern – author of Can’t Remember What I Forgot. November 19: Steve Nissenbaum – When "Merry" was Bawdy: the Enduring Battle for Christmas. January 21: Bill Mares – Booked for Life. February 18: Rux Martin – From Recipes to the Bestseller List? The Making of a Cookbook. March 18: Louella Bryant – author of While in Darkness There is Light. April 29: Lane Series performance: Del Sol String Quartet (Note: This is the 5th Thursday.) May 20: Bill Lipke – Memoirs, Memories, Commemoration. Remembering and Reconstructing the Past. All Booked for Lunch events are free; donations appreciated! You are welcome to bring a bag lunch; cookies and beverages are provided. For more information, please contact Library Friend Adrienne Donohue at 862-5153, or Jody Kebabian at 658-0245.
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First
Wednesdays
The First Wednesdays
monthly humanities lectures series provided by the Vermont Humanities
Council and supported by a $2500 contribution from the FRIENDS will begin
on October 7. October 7: Lincoln on the Causes of the Civil War by John McCardell, President Emeritus of Middlebury College and founder and president of Choose Responsibility. November 4: A Conservationist Manifesto by author and distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University, Scott Russell Sanders. His latest book is A Conservationist Manifesto, his vision of a shift to a sustainable society. December 2: The History of Herbal Medicine in America by Rosemary Gladstar, a pioneer in the herbal movement. She has taught internationally and written nine books as well as numerous magazine articles. January 6, 2010: The Two Vermonts: Then and Now by Paul Searls who teaches American History at Lyndon State College and the University of Vermont and is the author of Two Vermonts: Geography and Identity, 1865-1910. February 3: Hildegard of Bingen in her Twelfth-Century World by University of Vermont Professor of Religion Anne Clark. Professor Clark’s area of study is the Christian tradition in the Middle Ages. March 3: Why Stephen King Still Matters by Tony Magistrale, Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of Vermont. He is the author of four books on Edgar Allan Poe. April 7: Stark Decency: German POWs in a New England Village by historian Allen Koop. Professor Koop lectures in the History Department at Dartmouth College, primarily on 20th century European history and on the American health care system. May 5: The Intimate Privilege of Being With the Dying by Marjorie Ryerson, award-winning professor, photographer, poet and journalist. She currently teaches non-fiction writing at Johnson State College. The Vermont Humanities Council’s First Wednesdays Burlington series is held on the first Wednesday of every month from October through May. This event is sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council and the Friends of the Fletcher Free Library.
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