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Enjoy Vermont Humanities Council programs statewide. A performance lecture on Negro spirituals, the poetry of Billy Collins, developing a conscience in children, Oscar Wilde, and more.
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First Wednesdays in March
7:00 pm at a Library Near You
Brattleboro * Burlington * Manchester * Middlebury
Montpelier * Newport * Norwich * Rutland *
St. JohnsburyHumanities lectures on the First Wednesday of every month, October through May.BRATTLEBORO -- March 2: The Towering Inferno with Dante translator Michael Palma. Location and host: Brooks Memorial Library. Learn more...
 | | The Barque of Dante by Eug�ne Delacroix |
BURLINGTON -- March 2: If You Don't Want Your Slave to Speak Freely, You Should Forbid Him to Sing! with In this lecture performance, Middlebury College Artist-in-Residence Dr. Francois Clemmons. Host: Fletcher Free Library. LOCATION: First United Methodist Church. Learn more...
MANCHESTER -- March 2: Beethoven's Sketchbooks with pianist Michael Arnowitt.
March 9: What We Learn When We Learn about History.(Note: Rescheduled from February)
Location: First Congregational Church. Host: Mark Skinner Library. Learn more...
MIDDLEBURY -- March 2: Welfare Brat with Dr. Mary Childers. Location and host: Ilsley Public Library. Learn more...
MONTPELIER -- March 2: The Soul Selects Her Own Society: The Life and Work of Emily Dickinson with Dartmouth professor Colleen Boggs. Location and host: Kellogg-Hubbard Library. Learn more...
NEWPORT -- March 2: Why Conscience is Key with author Dr. Polly Young-Eisendrath. Location and host: Goodrich Memorial Library. Learn more...
 | | Oscar Wilde, 1882, by Napoleon Sarony |
NORWICH -- March 2: The Importance of Being Oscar with Dartmouth professor Peter Saccio. Location: Norwich Congregational Church. Hosts: Norwich Public Library and Norwich Historical Society. Learn more...
RUTLAND -- March 2: 100 Years since Triangle: The Fire That Seared a Nation's Conscience with Dartmouth professor Annelise Orleck. Location and host: Rutland Free Library. Learn more...
ST. JOHNSBURY -- March 2: The Two Vermonts: Then and Now with professor and author Paul Searls. Location and host: St. Johnsbury Athenaeum. Learn more... |
You Come Too Poetry Discussions
Discuss the poetry of these poets with VHC Executive Director Peter Gilbert at the VHC office at 11 Loomis Street, Montpelier, 5:30 pm.
March 9: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- This is My Letter to the World
- Success is Counted Sweetest
- The Heart Asks Pleasure First
- Much Madness is Divinest Sense
- The Soul Selects Her Own Society
- The right to perish might be thought
- Before I Got My Eye Put Out
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April 12: Billy Collins (Presented with Kellogg-Hubbard Library as part of Poetry Alive!)
- Fishing on the Susquehanna in July
- Morning
- Her
- Canada
- Reading an Anthology of Chinese Poems...
- Nostalgia
- The Death of Allegory
- Creatures
May 11: Seamus Heaney
- Mid-Term Break
- Digging
- Others to be determined
Read the poems in advance or read them upon arriving. Refreshments are served. RSVPs are encouraged, at 802.262.2626, ext. 307, or e-mail. Spur of the moment participants are welcome.
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Sign Up for the Civil War Book of Days Weekly E-newsletter
The Civil War Book of Days is a weekly newsletter marking the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. Published by the Vermont Humanities Council, it commemorates what happened that week 150 years ago.
VHC invites people to submit texts linked to specific dates -- an excerpt from a poignant or inspiring letter, an excerpt from a secondary source, or 100-500 words of original descriptive prose.Please forward the e-mail to friends so they can subscribe -- using the forward link at the bottom of the e-mail. Read previous editions:
Sign up for the Civil War Book of Days.
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The Vermont Humanities Council depends on donations from individuals and businesses to offer public programming and programming for underserved communities. VHC accepts donations online or call Linda Wrazen, Development Officer at 802.262.2626 x 309. |
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The Vermont Humanities Council presents more than 1,200 events every year. Thank you for your interest in lifelong learning!
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Sylvia Plumb, Director of Communications
Vermont Humanities Council |
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