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Vermont Humanities E-newsletter
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Invite a Speaker to Your Town
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New Speakers Bureau Catalogue
Quality, affordable lectures for your community
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Viking myths, digital storytelling, Vermont gunmakers and the Civil War, and classic films of the 1950s are some of the new topics coming to Vermont audiences this year through the Vermont Humanities Council and its 2013 Speakers Bureau Catalogue. The ninth edition of VHC's catalogue offers 96 programs, including 17 living history presentations and 79 lectures -- all free and open to the public.
"Talks by this outstanding group of writers, scholars, actors, artists, and practitioners are thought-provoking and dynamic, but never out of reach for a general interest audience," notes Mark Fitzsimmons, VHC Director of Community Programs.
Any nonprofit organization in Vermont may apply to host a Speakers Bureau program. The booking fee is $75 per event. Learn more and book a speaker today.
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Vermont Reads 10th Anniversary
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Vermont Reads 2013: Apply Today!
Celebrate Poetry in Honor of the 10th Anniversary of Vermont Reads
A poem "begins in delight and ends in wisdom."
- Robert Frost
 Celebrate the tenth anniversary of Vermont Reads by exploring poetry! Your community is invited to take part with this statewide read of Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, an anthology of contemporary poems selected by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Collins created this poem-a-day anthology to make poetry less daunting by assembling a "selection of short, clear, contemporary poems which any listener could basically 'get' on first hearing -- poems whose injection of pleasure is immediate." Students and adults of all ages will enjoy poetry in this book and other books. Join us and discover -- or rediscover -- with others in your community the insight, beauty, and joy that poetry offers. Vermont Reads unites communities around reading, ideas, and activities. Libraries, schools, and other nonprofit organizations may apply; collaboration among town organizations and businesses is strongly encouraged. * Receive FREE books and programming support. * Host poetry readings and slams, poem-a-day projects, poetry writing contests, events with Vermont poets, and more. * Listen to Vermont Public Radio's Vermont Reads feature in early May!  Learn more and apply online today. Application deadline: May 15, 2013
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Major Jackson Awarded Guggenheim
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VHC Board Member Major Jackson Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
 | | Major Jackson by Erin Patrice O'Brien |
Congratulations to Major Jackson who has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, one of the most prestigious honors an artist or a scholar can achieve. Read more about the award and the verse play about Edmonia Lewis that Major plans to write. Congratulations, Major!Read more about his fellowship here. And learn more about Major Jackson.
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First Wednesdays 2012-2013
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First Wednesdays Talks May 1
All talks are at 7:00 pm. See you at First Wednesdays!
BRATTLEBORO -- Frost and Wordsworth: Romantic Poetry in the Light of Common Day with Vermont Poet Laureate Sydney Lea. Host and location: Brooks Memorial Library. Learn more.
ESSEX JUNCTION -- Building Books with author David Macaulay. Host and location: Brownell Library. Learn more.
MANCHESTER -- What Women Want with author Polly Young-Eisendrath. Host: Mark Skinner Library. Location: First Congregational Church. Learn more. MIDDLEBURY --How Does Bach Say It? with UVM Professor Emeritus Philip Ambrose. Host and location: Ilsley Public Library. Learn more.
MONTPELIER -- The Book of Kells with Dartmouth professor Jane Carroll. Host and location: Kellogg-Hubbard Library. Learn more.
NEWPORT -- The Great Camps of the Adirondacks with Vermont State Curator David Sch�tz. Host and location: Goodrich Memorial Library. Learn more.
NORWICH -- The Regeneration of an Artist: Frank Lloyd Wright after 1932 with H. Nicholas Muller, III, retired executive director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Hosts: Norwich Public Library and Norwich Historical Society. Location: Norwich Congregational Church. Learn more.
RUTLAND -- The Evolution of Sports Writing with Sports Illustrated senior writer Alexander Wolff. Host and location: Rutland Free Library. Learn more.
ST. JOHNSBURY -- The Patchwork Quilt of American Evangelicalism with Dartmouth professor of American religious history Randall Balmer. Host and location: St. Johnsbury Athenaeum. Learn more.
Learn what talks will be taking place in a community near you.
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Civil War Book of Days -- Marking Events that Happened Each Week During the Civil War
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 Sign up for the Civil War Book of Days
VHC's weekly Civil War Book of Days marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. It commemorates what happened each week 150 years ago.
Read some of the latest editions of this e-newsletter.Sign up here.
Civil War Sesquicentennial Symposium | April 27, 2013
Presented by the Maine Historical Society and Maine Humanities Council. Learn more.
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Humanities Commentaries on VPR
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The Fire Next Time (2-12-13) In January 1963, fifty years ago, the great American writer James Baldwin published a famous book entitled The Fire Next Time. It was a profoundly influential statement about race relations in the midst of the Civil Rights movement. Here's Vermont Humanities Council executive director Peter Gilbert with these thoughts.
Frost's Final Days (1-28-13) Robert Frost died fifty years ago tomorrow at the age of eighty-eight. Peter Gilbert tells us about the last days of a man that scholars generally now recognize as one of America's greatest poets.
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Thank You for Your Donation
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The Vermont Humanities Council depends on donations from individuals and businesses to offer public programming and programming for underserved communities.
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The Vermont Humanities Council presents more than 1,200 events every year. Thank you for your interest in lifelong learning!
Sincerely,
Sylvia Plumb, Director of Communications
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