Members have an opportunity to hear some of the best presentations of the spring semester, recommended by the moderators and selected by the Encore Committee. The presentations will be on Zoom; an email announcing registration will be sent out before the first session. Registration will also be posted on the LIR website. All of the Encore presentations are offered on Fridays.
October 14
10 am. Chuck Aulino, George Thomas — the Greatest General of the Civil War?, presented in the Civil War Revisited seminar
11 am. Sherry Wilson, Princess Alice: Guttersnipe to Living Legend, in Roosevelt’s Inner Circle
October 21
10 am. Rachel Borson, Ashkenazi Jewish Cooking, Food Matters
11 am. Julie Schlack, Diane di Prima: the Invisible ‘Beat’, in The Beat Generation
October 28
10 am. Jim Lee, The US and the International Slave Trade, in Rethinking American History 11 am. Jessie Tropp, The History of Plastics, from Miracle to Menace, in Plastics
November 4
10 am. Nancy Eddy, Harry Hopkins: FCR’s Confidant and Implementer, in Roosevelt’s Inner Circle
11 am. Elisa Campbell, East Broad Top Railroad, in Museums: A World of Wonders
November 11
10 am. Jamie Elkin, Geometric Art in the Arab World, in Golden Age of Arabs
11 am. Diana Liebert, The Shelburne Museum, in Museums: A World of Wonders
November 18
10 am. Richard Nicholl, Growing Up in the UK in the 1950s and 60s, in Food Matters
11 am. Rick Parrish, Plastics: How They are Made and the Petrochemical Industry, in Plastics
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