This year’s Whallonsburg Grange Fall Lyceum Series “150 Years After the Civil War: Why It Still Matters” will occur throughout the season on Tuesdays at 7:30PM. A full series ticket is $36 or the cost is $5 per lecture. Students FREE. Drop-ins welcome, come to one or all.
150 Years After the Civil War: Why It Still Matters
September 24– The American Civil War in the World, 1848-1871, presentation by Andy Buchanan
Two lectures on the The Adirondack Regiment in the Civil War, by Sharp Swan
October 1– Part I: “We Are Coming Father Abra’m”
October 8– Part II: “Seeing the Elephant”
4-part series: The Impact of Slavery in American Literature, with author Colin Wells
October 15– Part 1: David Walker’s 1829 Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
October 22– Part 2: Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
October 29– Part 3: The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
November 5– Election Night Dinner, no Lyceum
November 12– Part 4: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter From a Birmingham Jail
November 19 Memory and Memorialization: The Legacy of the Civil War, presentation by Andy Buchanan
Special holiday Lyceum
December 3– The Battle for Christmas, with Stephen Nissenbaum, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist, The Battle for Christmas: A Cultural History of America’s Most Cherished Holiday
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