Great Lives

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Season Date Lecture Speaker Media
Season Date Lecture Speaker Media
2024 Feb. 20 Picasso Marjorie Och
2024 Feb. 15 Franklin D. Roosevelt Jonathan Darman
2024 Feb. 8 Mary Lumpkin: Enslaved Woman, Liberator Kristen Green
2024 Feb. 6 George Washington Alexis Coe
2024 Feb. 1 Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller
2024 Jan. 30 Sam Shepard John Winters
2024 Jan. 25 George VI and Elizabeth Sally Bedell Smith
2024 Jan. 23 Shakespeare Elizabeth Winkler
2024 Jan. 18 Lewis & Clark/Sacagawea Dale Blanshan
2023 Mar. 28 Colin Powell Karen DeYoung
2023 Mar. 23 Bruce Springsteen Peter Ames Carlin
2023 Mar. 21 Queen Isabella Kirstin Downey
2023 Mar. 16 Lafayette Mike Duncan
2023 Mar. 14 Anne Frank Rosemary Sullivan
2023 Mar. 9 The Transcendentalists Robert A. Gross
2023 Mar. 7 Sandra Day O’Connor Evan Thomas
2023 Mar. 2 Magellan Laurence Bergreen
2023 Feb. 23 Rembrandt Marjorie Och
2023 Feb. 16 J. Edgar Hoover Beverly Gage
2023 Feb. 14 Ted Kennedy John A. Farrell

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This compelling lecture series offers insight into a wide and diverse range of figures of historical and cultural significance. These presentations are delivered by eminent authorities from throughout this country — and abroad. Thanks to a substantial initial endowment and continuing annual support from John Chappell, the program is open to the public free of charge and no admission tickets are required. Public support — via attendance, donations, and ideas about future lecture topics — is vital to the continuation of this program.

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