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Fall 2022 Lineup of Presenters and Introductory Videos
The videos will be linked shortly, meanwhile, enjoy the photos here and descriptions on the program description page.

Tuesday, Oct.4, 2022
​1:30-3:30pm 
Judy Handler and Mark Levesque will perform on guitar and mandolin with
Crossing Musical Boundaries. 

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Wednesday, Oct 5, 2022
​1:30-3:00pm via Zoom
Ehris and Velya Urban 
Pudd'nheads: Childhood in Colonial America 

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Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022
​1:30-3:30pm 
MILE member, Augusta Gonzalez, will share some photos and stories of her six month stay in Spain:
Off and On the Beaten Path in Spain: Canary Islands, Huelva Coast, Malaga and Cordoba.

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Thursday, Oct, 13, 2022
​1:30-3:30pm 
Tad Lincoln
Seeking Solutions to Fix Our Country 

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Tuesday, Oct.18, 2022
​1:30-3:30pm 
Richard Friswell 
Merchants of Deceit: Opium, American Fortune & the China Trade 

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Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022, 
​1:30-3:00pm via Zoom
​Katherine Owens, PhD 

Entangled and Ingested, (Plastic pollution into art)
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Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022
​9:30-11:30am 
Bud Sielaff
Great Decisions Thursday morning 5 class series begins

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Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022
​1:30-3:30pm 
Richard Friswell
Graven Images: Colonial New England Gravestones as Art and History

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Friday, Oct. 21, 2022
1:30-3:30pm
Beth Malley
Zentangle: Finding Your Creative Spirit 

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Tuesday, Oct.25, 2022
​1:30-3:30pm 
James Golden 
Beyond Plymouth Rocks, a history of New England in objects

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Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022
​1:30-3:00pm via Zoom
Stephanie Bird
 Antartica Adventure: A Once in a Lifetime Experience

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Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022 , part one
and part 2 Thursday Nov. 3, 2022
​1:30-3:30pm 
Gil Gigliotti
Colonial American Poet, Part 1 :Anne Bradstreet
​part 2: Phyllis Wheatley Peters

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Tuesday,Nov. 1, 2022
​1:30-3:30pm 
Steven Akerley
Space Solar Power

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Tuesday, Nov 8, 2022, Thursday, Nov. 10 and Tuesday Nov. 15
​1:30-3:30pm
moderator, Joe Soja
A 3 part series on Winston Churchill

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Wednesday, Nov.9, 2022
​1:30-3:00pm via Zoom
Kristin Lessard
Getting to know Weir Farm National Historical Park and American Impressionism

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Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022
​1:30-3:00pm via Zoom
Lucianne Lavin
Connecticut's Indigenous Communities:
​ An Introduction to their Histories and Cultures

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Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022
​1:30-3:30pm via Zoom
Bud Sielaff
Can Nuclear Power Help Fight Climate Change?

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"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years.  We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." ~~  Samuel Ullman