Fall Preview will be held on Sunday, May 21.
The annual meeting and preview of fall seminars will be held on Sunday afternoon, May 21, with the annual meeting, running about one-half hour, starting at 1:30 PM. When the meeting is over, members will be asked to sign off Zoom and sign in again using the invitation sent specifically for the preview.
Members will thus receive two Zoom invitations. The link for the annual meeting will be sent to all who have paid their 2023-2024 dues. If you do not receive that invitation, please double check to see if you have paid your dues.
A separate invitation for the preview also will be sent to members, and since this is open to the public, the invitation is not contingent on dues being paid.
The preview will follow the same format as last year. The first portion, with Nancy Denig serving as MC, will be devoted to short presentations by the moderators about their seminars. Then, break-out rooms will be established and members may move to the various break-out rooms to meet the moderators to ask specific questions about their seminars.
Fall Seminars
| Seminar | Title | Moderators | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday a.m. | |||
| F23-BHB | Boomers Helping Boomers | Fred Bogin | Library Annex in Hatfield |
| F23-EAI | Exploring Artificial Intelligence | Kevin Foley | on line |
| F23-PON | Picture of Nothing: Understanding Abstract Painting and Collage | Ellen Kosmer and Betsy Siersma | on line |
| Monday p.m. | |||
| F23-MOS | The Motown Sound | Nancy Clune and Bob Cohen | HYBRID: Library Annex in Hatfield |
| F23-PWS | Photo Workshop | Thomas Clune | UMASSFIVE Credit Union Hadley |
| F23-WTRB | Writing to Remember (Blue): Writing your own story | Henia Lewin and Carol Jolly | on line |
| Tuesday a.m. | |||
| F23-AET | American Education Today: Challenging current book bans in schools and libraries | Linda Honan | on line |
| F23-OMF | Our Mutual Friend | Nancy Coiner and Antonia Woods | on line |
| F23-ONS | Our Neighbors to the South | Jim Harvey | on line |
| F23-WTRG | Writing to Remember (Green): Sharing our stories by writing and responding | Francie Borden | on line |
| Tuesday p.m. | |||
| F23-AUS | 19th Century American Utopian Societies: The rise and decline of selected Utopian communities | Jay Russell | Library Annex in Hatfield |
| F23-NOS | The 1619 Project: Exploring a new origin story and the place of slavery in our country’s development | Sara Lennox and Naomi Yanis | on line |
| Wednesday a.m. | |||
| F23-BZL | Brazil: Beyond the Amazon, Carnival, and soccer | Ben Jaffee | on line |
| F23-CRM | Civil Rights: Black Americans’ struggle for power and civil rights | Kip Fonsh | on line |
| F23-DQP | Don Quixote, Part I (1650) | Nina Scott | on line |
| Wednesday p.m. | |||
| F23-JHS | Jewish History: From the Golden Age of Spain to the Founding of the State of Israel | Gerald Goldman | on line |
| F23-WTRP | Writing to Remember (Purple): Finding and using our voices in personal writing | Finnegan Alford-Cooper | on line |
| Thursday a.m. | |||
| F23-EAI | Early America Industrialists: Visionaries, miscreants, and philanthropists who built America before there were rules | Edie Kirk | on line |
| F23-WTTR | Writing to Remember (Red): Autobiographical writing | Catharine Porter and Patricia Callard | on line |