Individual Seminars

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• 1989 Fall Study Group
• 1989 Spring Study Group
• Fall 2015
  • 1,000 Foods to Eat Before You Die
  • Big Bands of the 30’s and 40’s
  • Biographies of the Leaders of the American Revolutionary War
  • Broadway Musicals
  • Classics of American Nature Writing
  • Ernest Hemingway – the Man, the Myth, and the Work
  • Food in Contemporary America
  • From Personal Narrative to Public Issues
  • Oscar Wilde: Troubled Genius
  • People Who Changed America
  • Plants: From Mosses to Mistletoe
  • Presidents at the Law’s Edge
  • Public Lives, Private Rights
  • Reading the Stories of Andrea Barrett
  • Reading to Explore the Valley & the Berkshires
  • The Emergence of Life
  • The Immigrants
  • The Silk Roads, the World’s First Globalization
  • Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
  • Your Past and Present Memories
• Fall 2017
  • 18th Century England
  • Basic Drawing
  • Going with the Grain
  • Hamilton the Musical & History: How Accurately Does the Broadway Show Represent Alexander Hamilton’s World?
  • Have an Inkling: The Fellowship of J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Hitler & Nazi Germany: The Man and the Times; the challenge in the 20th century.
  • Jane Austen: Her Books and Her World
  • Marriage in Literature: Late 20th-Century Portrayals
  • Modern Hard Boiled Crime Fiction: Explorations of conscience, morality and culture
  • Nana & Papa 101
  • New Technologies
  • Our Maturing Ecological Perspective: Seeing Beauty in Bogs, Compost Piles, Clotheslines, and Solar Arrays
  • Radiation and You: The Good, the Bad, the Unknown
  • Reading “The Odyssey”: Homer’s epic story of homecoming
  • Seeing Art
  • The Arithmetic of Symmetry
  • The Immigrants Revisited
  • The Playwright and the Preacher
  • The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Queen Elizabeth and Islam
  • The U.S. Supreme Court
  • The US, 1912-1920
  • Watercolor Class
  • What is the US Foreign Policy in the Mideast?
  • Writing to Remember (Blue Section): Writing Your Own Story
  • Writing to Remember (Purple Section): Writing and Reading for the Self and Others
  • Writing to Remember (Red Section): Autobiographical Writing
• History’s Mysteries: Revisiting Classic Crime Novels
• Lesser Known Giants of the 20th Century
• More Storytelling
• Spring 2015
  • A Walk in the Park: Cities, Parks and People in the United States from 1900 to the Present
  • American Modern Dance in the 20th Century
  • Ancient Rome
  • Biogeography
  • Great 20th Century American Short Fiction
  • History of Medicine
  • Mathematical Puzzles in Everyday Life
  • Owning Art: Claims and Controversies
  • Poetry Out Loud: Contemporary Poets of the Pioneer Valley
  • Religious Revolution to the Dawn of Modernity: Martin Luther to the Peace of Westphalia 1517-1648
  • Robots
  • Rudyard Kipling: Strange Genius
  • Russia: The Last 100 Years
  • The Art and History of the Illustrated Book
  • The Art of the Novella
  • The Body Has a Mind: A Survey of Alternative Medical Practices
  • The Dismal Science: Economics!
  • The Old Days of the 30’s, 40’s, 50’s and 60’s
  • The Progressive Era
  • The United States in the 1930’s
  • Using Art Objects to Curate Life Memories
  • What Does it Mean to be a Person?
• Spring 2016
  • 2016 Primary and Caucus Season (Presidential Election Part 1)
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Relation To Victorian Times: Does He Relate to Ours?
  • Broadway Musicals
  • Expressing Your Artistic Spirit Through Photography
  • Genius and Neurosis Closely Allied: The James Family
  • Great American Photographers: Shaping Our Own Vision
  • Internet Privacy & Security: Issues, and Tools for Protection
  • Mathematical Puzzles in Life
  • Memorable Structures and Inventions Since 1800
  • Poetry Out Loud
  • Poetry Out Loud
  • Politics and the Representation of Lesbians in North American Cinema, 1960’s – Present
  • Primer in Climate Change Modeling
  • Reading Beowulf
  • T.S. Eliot’s London and/or London’s T.S. Eliot
  • The Golden Age of the Arab
  • We’re All Artists Now
  • Who’s On First: Biographies of American Comedy
  • Why Do Many of Our Systems Seem to be Broken?
  • Writing to Remember – Red Section
• Spring 2017
  • American Impressionism: Revolt of the Ten
  • Basic Drawing
  • British India
  • Broadway Musicals
  • Chaim Potok: Asher Lev, the Artist In Conflict With Community
  • Contemporary Trends in String Quartet Composition
  • Don Quixote, Part II (1615)
  • Every Dog Has Its Day: Dogs in Human History and Culture
  • High Water, Power Politics, Disaster Management: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
  • Inequality in the New Gilded Age
  • My Favorite Painter
  • Oh, Canada! Who Art Thou?
  • Poetry and the American Civil War
  • Reading Piketty: Capital in the 20th Century
  • The American West, 1850-1900
  • The Impact of a Favorite Children’s Book on Our Adult Life
  • The US, 1912-1920
  • Watercolor Class
  • What in the World is Going On in Today’s Disrupted World ?
  • Writing to Remember – Blue Section
  • Writing to Remember (Blue Section)
  • Writing to Remember (Red Section)
• Summer 2017
  • Darwin Comes to America
  • Imagining a De-industrial Future
• Watercolor Class
• Writing to Remember – Blue Section
• Writing to Remember – Red Section