Best Bets
Lecture: My Provenance: From Aunt Gertrude to Sydney Freedberg by Bruce Cole
Monday, November 9, 5 PM
Casey Academic Center Forum, Washington College
The Friends of the Miller Library, the C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, the Department of Art and Art History, and the Washington College – Academy of Lifelong Learning present, “My Provenance: From Aunt Gertrude to Sydney Freedberg”. A lecture by Bruce Cole, retired Chairman of the NEH, and current President of Valley Forge.
Forum: Alternative Remedies & Innovative Therapies
Monday, November 9, 7:00 pm,
UUCR, 914 Gateway Drive, Chestertown
Panelists Roseannette Cooper, L.Ac., Dipl.AC.; Maryland Massey; Wendy Morrison; and Katherine E. Pagano, M.D., will discuss how lifestyles. acupuncture, essential oils, and herbs can improve health and well-being! Bring your questions and experiences; light refreshments provided.
Film: “On the Waterfront”
Monday, November 9, 7:30pm
Washington College, Norman James Theatre, William Smith Hall
Classic drama directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Karl Malden. An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses. (1954)
Lecture: “Vietnam: A Country, Not a War” by Dennis McCornac
Tuesday, November 10, 4:30 PM
Washington College, Goldstein Hall
Dr. McCornac has extensive experience in Vietnam beginning with participation in a Ford Foundation-sponsored market economics training course for university faculty and government officials in 1994. Over the next decade he served as consultant for Pricewaterhouse Coopers for a number of projects including development of Vietnam’s foreign direct investment strategy and capacity building at the Ministry of Finance. Dr. McCornac was also a Fulbright Scholar in the Fulbright Economics Teaching Program in Ho Chi Minh City and this past summer was invited by the Ministry of Education and Training to teach finance at Hanoi National Economics University. His research focuses on the relationship between education and development.
Concert: Washington College Afro-Cuban Ensemble
Wednesday, November 11, 9 PM
Washington College, Gibson Center, Hotchkiss Recital Hall
The exciting drum and song traditions of a vibrant musical culture will come alive on campus when the Washington College Afro-Cuban Ensemble performs in Hotchkiss Recital Hall on Wednesday, November 11, at 9 p.m. The Washington College Jazz Combo also will perform, presenting enduring classics from the American jazz canon.
Lecture: World War I: From the Western Front to the Home Front
Wednesday, November 11, 5:30 PM
Washington College, Litrenta Lecture Hall, Toll Science Center
Martha Hanna, Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will present “Husbands and Wives, Fathers and Children: Family Life and Military Service in France during World War I” Dr. Hanna is a specialist in the history of modern France, with a particular interest in the First World War. During a research trip to Paris in 2000, she unearthed a previously unknown collection of wartime letters written by a peasant couple, Paul and Marie Pireaud.
Performance: At Tribute to Charlie Byrd 1925-1999
Thursday, November 12, 7:30 PM
Mainstay, Rock Hall
A celebration of the music of famed guitarist Charlie Byrd. Some of his most notable associates, protégés and admirers come together to celebrate the music of a guitar legend and pay tribute to the man who helped the Mainstay in many ways when it was just getting started. Drummer and vibraphonist Chuck Redd will host this evening with a sensational cast of players: Frank Vignola, guitar, Steve Abshire, guitar, Nate Najar, guitar, Tommy Cecil, bass, Chuck Redd, drums & vibes and Bertell Knox, drums.
Lecture: The Amazing Race on the Discovery Channel by Harris Whitbeck
Thursday, November 12, 7:30 PM
Washington College, Litrenta Lecture Hall, Toll Science Center
Harris Whitbeck, a member of Washington College’s Class of 1987 and now the host of a popular TV program, will give a presentation on his show, “The Amazing Race on the Discovery Channel: Latin America,” a reality television game show produced by the Discovery Channel in association with Disney.
Reading: Novelist Debra Spark
Thursday, November 12, at 4:30 PM
Washington College, Sophie Kerr Room, Miller Library
Award-winning novelist Debra Spark will read from her fiction at on Spark is the author of the novels Coconuts for the Saint and The Ghost of Bridgetown and editor of the anthology Twenty Under Thirty: Best Stories by America’s New Young Writers. Her short fiction, essays, articles and book reviews have appeared in Esquire, Ploughshares, Epoch, Agni, Gingko Tree Review, narrativemagazine.com, The New York Times, New England Travel and Life, Food and Wine, Yankee, Down East, The Washington Post and The San Francisco Chronicle, among other places. Spark currently teaches at Colby College
Film: Vertigo
Friday, November 13, 7:30 PM
Washington College, Norman James Theatre, William Smith Hall
Psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak. A retired San Francisco detective suffering from vertigo becomes obsessed with a client’s wife, whom he is hired to follow. (1958)
Special Program: Chestertown Book Festival
Friday and Saturday, November 13 & 14, All day
Various venues (http://www.chestertownbookfestival.org/CBFSchedule.pdf)
The Chestertown Book Festival is the first and only book festival on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. It is a celebration of the authors, books, and literary traditions of the Eastern Shore. The inaugural event will take place November 13-14, 2009 with author visits in shops, restaurants, and other gathering places throughout Chestertown.
Theatre: The West Side Waltz
Friday, November 13 (though November 22) 8 PM
Church Hill Theatre, Church Hill
By the writer of On Golden Pond, The West Side Waltz is a high-spirited, warm-hearted comedy which originally starred Katherine Hepburn. Holding out against aging, dwindling finances and failing health, Margaret Mary Elderdice, a widow and former concert pianist, resists the attempts of her music partner and spinster neighbor, Cara, to move in with her. While she enjoys playing duets with Cara, Margaret Mary values her independence above any conveniences prudish Cara might provide. So, Cara is shocked when Margaret Mary engages Robin Bird, a kooky would-be actress, as her paid, live-in companion. Relations between the three are strewn with humorous pitfalls from the start, with additional complications provided by a Rumanian superintendent and an eager suitor Robin brings home for dinner.
Lecture: Restoring the Chesapeake Bay: The Next Steps
Sunday, November 15,
1pm
Prince Theatre
Echo Hill Outdoor School invites you to join us for a discussion featuring J. Charles Fox EPA Senior Advisor on the Chesapeake Bay and Anacostia River & Ann Pesiri Swanson Executive Director of the Chesapeake Bay Commission. A Dessert Reception and Auction will follow the lecture. Auction will feature selected artwork from the Arts at Echo Hill Outdoor School collection and an exclusive trip aboard the skipjack Elsworth. Proceeds will benefit Echo Hill Outdoor School .
