Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning Presents: “History and Future Potential of Weather Forecasting”
History and Future Potential of Weather Forecasting Tuesday, March 30 from 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm via Zoom Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Christopher Walcek, a research associate at University of Albany's Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, to present a fascinating look at weather forecasting. His talk will summarize the history of weather forecasting: from pre-scientific notions, to modern physics-based...
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning Presents: “A Psychoanalytic Reading of Little Red Riding Hood”
Folk and Fairy Tales – A Psychoanalytic Reading of Little Red Riding Hood Tuesday, March 23 from 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm via Zoom Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Dr. Bill Freedman to lead us through a psychoanalytic reading of Little Red Riding Hood. Fairy tales aren’t dreams, but if you thought Little Red Riding Hood was...
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning Presents: “The Other Side of Terrorism: U.S. Domestic Terror Actors, Ideologies and Events
The Other Side of Terrorism: U.S. Domestic Terror Actors, Ideologies, and Events Tuesday, March 9 from 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm via Zoom Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Dr. W. Travis Morris, Director of the Peace & War Center at Norwich University, to talk about domestic terrorism in the U.S. The term “terrorism” over the past twenty...
Green Mountain Academy of Lifelong Learning Presents: “The Art of Bees”
The Art of Bees Tuesday, March 16 from 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm via Zoom Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes curator and writer Doreen Schmid to talk about the art of bees. Bees are a boon to mankind, pollinating over 80 percent of U.S. grown crops. They have been metamorphosed into mythology, are an admired model of...
The Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning Presents “The Special Relationship – Warts ‘n All
The Special Relationship - Warts 'n All Tuesday, February 23 from 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm via Zoom Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is happy to welcome back Derek Boothby to talk about the special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom - warts 'n all! Bismarck once said that the most significant fact of the twentieth...
The Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning Presents “The Liberator”
The Liberator Tuesday, February 16 from 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm via Zoom Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is thrilled to welcome back author Alex Kershaw to talk about his book, The Liberator. Over five hundred bloody days, U.S. Army officer Felix Sparks and his infantry unit battled from the beaches of Sicily through the mountains of Italy and...
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning Presents: “Lecture on COVID-19 Vaccines”
Lecture on COVID-19 Vaccines Tuesday, February 9 from 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm via Zoom Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Ricki Lewis, a science writer with a PhD in genetics, to talk about COVID-19 vaccines. There are concerns the winter months will continue to see spikes in COVID cases, and yet progress is being made. With a...
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning Presents: “Mathew Brady: Portraits of the Civil War”
Mathew Brady: Portraits of the Civil War Tuesday, January 26 from 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm via Zoom Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is happy to welcome back Christopher Dant to talk about Civil War photographer Matthew Brady. On a sweltering morning in July 1861, with approval from President Lincoln and battle commanders, portrait photographer Mathew Brady, laden...
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning Presents “A Comet is Seen: Igor Stravinsky’s Early Ballet Music”
A Comet is Seen: Igor Stravinsky's Early Ballet Music Tuesday, December 29 from 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm via Zoom Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes composer Erik Nielsen to talk about Igor Stravinsky's early ballet music. Although Stravinsky started out studying law, he soon turned to music and in his early 20s gained a great deal studying...
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning Presents “Luigi Lucioni – Celebrating the Season”
Luigi Lucioni - Celebrating the Season Tuesday, December 8 from 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm via Zoom Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Katie Wood Kirchhoff, Associate Curator at Shelburne Museum, to talk about Luigi Lucioni. Dubbed Vermont’s “painter laureate” by Life magazine in 1939, American 20th-century artist Luigi Lucioni (1900–1988) captured the textures of the Green Mountain State in meticulously rendered...
