2023 Fall Preview

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

SeminarTitleModeratorsLocation
Monday
a.m.
F23-BHBBoomers Helping BoomersFred BoginLibrary Annex in Hatfield
F23-EAIExploring Artificial IntelligenceKevin Foleyon line
F23-PONPicture of Nothing: Understanding Abstract Painting and CollageEllen Kosmer and Betsy Siersmaon line
Monday
p.m.
F23-MOSThe Motown SoundNancy Clune and Bob CohenHYBRID: Library Annex in Hatfield
F23-PWSPhoto WorkshopThomas Clune
UMASSFIVE Credit Union Hadley
F23-WTRBWriting to Remember (Blue): Writing your own storyHenia Lewin and Carol Jollyon line
Tuesday
a.m.
F23-AETAmerican Education Today: Challenging current book bans in schools and librariesLinda Honanon line
F23-OMFOur Mutual FriendNancy Coiner and Antonia Woodson line
F23-ONSOur Neighbors to the SouthJim Harveyon line
F23-WTRGWriting to Remember (Green): Sharing our stories by writing and respondingFrancie Bordenon line
Tuesday
p.m.
F23-AUS19th Century American Utopian Societies: The rise and decline of selected Utopian communitiesJay RussellLibrary Annex in Hatfield
F23-NOSThe 1619 Project: Exploring a new origin story and the place of slavery in our country’s developmentSara Lennox and Naomi Yanison line
Wednesday
a.m.
F23-BZLBrazil: Beyond the Amazon, Carnival, and soccerBen Jaffeeon line
F23-CRMCivil Rights: Black Americans’ struggle for power and civil rightsKip Fonshon line
F23-DQPDon Quixote, Part I (1650)Nina Scotton line
Wednesday
p.m.
F23-JHSJewish History: From the Golden Age of Spain to the Founding of the State of IsraelGerald Goldmanon line
F23-WTRPWriting to Remember (Purple): Finding and using our voices in personal writingFinnegan Alford-Cooperon line
Thursday
a.m.
F23-EAIEarly America Industrialists: Visionaries, miscreants, and philanthropists who built America before there were rulesEdie Kirkon line
F23-WTTRWriting to Remember (Red): Autobiographical writingCatharine Porter and Patricia Callardon line