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P R O G R A M O F F E R I N G S

SEPTEMBER THROUGH DECEMBER

Around the World

contents

Special Events

in Fewer than 80 Days!

  • Around the World in Fewer than
  • Artifacts at the Georgia Capitol . . . . . 16

Auguste Rodin: Reflecting Humanity . 4

Lecturer: David Jones

80 Days! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i

Monday, October 1
5:00pm reception; 5:30pm program;
6:15pm reception continues

Art Gallery Opening: Fran omas . . 22 Discovering Daufuskie Island . . . . . . . i From Monet to Matisse . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Holiday Sing-Along . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Charles Lamar and the Slave-Trader’s Letter-Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Deadliest Catch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Everyday Racism in America . . . . . . . 18 Fallen Empires of World War I . . . . . . 5 Fort King George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Gilded Age and Its Mansions. . . . . . . . 2 Giorgio Vasari. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church
50 Diamond Causeway

$15 for members; free for visitors invited by members

Introducing: Healthwise

Movement and Stillness . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Sex and the Senior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Travel Wellness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Yoga Studio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

$25 TLC credit for members whose guests become members on October 1

Open House

Ivan Bailey
& His Savannah Ironwork. . . . . . . . 21

This is the amazing story of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland and their race against each other and Jules Verne’s fictional traveler, Phileas Fogg, to circumnavigate the globe in fewer than 80 days in 1889-1890. Accomplished journalists and fierce competitors, theirs is a compelling story of amazing adventures and misadventures in the days when traveling was unpredictable, dangerous, and all the more challenging for single young women.

King David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Travel

  • Managing and Curating
  • Jekyll Island: Enclave of Millionaires . . 3

a Savannah Art Gallery . . . . . . . . . . 23
Louisisana Sojourn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Paris to Normandy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Mary Shelley and Frankenstein . . . . . . 15 Massacre of Glen Coe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Muckrakers: Wearing the Gilt Away . . 2

Pre-registration required

Multi-Week Courses

American South in Film (9) . . . . . . . . 26
Newspaper Publishing in a New Age 20

Power of Branding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture (9). . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

inauguRal Fall lECtuRE and lunCHEon

Restoring the Berrien House . . . . . . . 15 Resurgent Russia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Rethinking Savannah’s Image. . . . . . . 15
Animals of the Scriptures (3) . . . . . . . . 7 Contemporary Southern Authors (3). . 8 Fall of France, 1940 (8). . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Financial Inequality in the U.S (3) . . . . 7 Gender Identity (3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

D i s c o v e r i n g D a u f u s k i e I s la n d

Robber Barons or Captains

Lecturers: Jenny Hersch and Sallie Ann Robinson
12:00 noon on Wednesday, September 12
Lunch buffet begins at 11:30am

of Industry? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Sea Level Rise in Coastal Georgia . . . 14
Great War: On the Battlefield
eordore Roosevelt and the

First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Avenue
$25 per person

and Homefront (9). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Conundrums of Success. . . . . . . . . . . 3

King Leopold’s Heart of Darkness (3) 6

Louisiana in Fact and Fiction (9) . . . . 11 Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil (9) 10 Russia Since the Revolution (8) . . . . . 13 Russian Composers (9). . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Sea Turtles of the Georgia Coast (3) . . 6 Southwestern Native Americans (9). . 12 U.S.-Israeli Relations (6). . . . . . . . . . . . 4
U.S. Immigration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Vanderbilts and eir Times. . . . . . . . . 3 What Is a Wreckfish? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Why is the Bible a Book? . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Women of e Gilded Age . . . . . . . . . 2

Lying between Savannah and Hilton Head with its own isolated allure, Daufuskie Island seems like a world away. Electricity came only in the 1950s, the first telephone rang there in 1972, and even today the island is accessible only by water. In their new book, Jenny Hersch and Sallie Ann Robinson capture the mystique of Daufuskie: home to Native Americans and enslaved people, haven to pirates and Freedmen, military outpost, and today the enclave of a unique culture. Their extensive archival research, island-based interviews, and never-before-published photographs form the basis for this presentation, complemented by a Daufuskie-inspired buffet menu including corn salad, seafood gumbo, and peach cobbler prepared by SCI’s executive chef David Pressley, in consultation with lecturer and cookbook author Sallie Ann

Robinson. Copies of the authors’ book will be available for sale at the event.

Special Interests

Art Studio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Book Club. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Foreign Language Conversation. . . . . 22 Local Vocals Choir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Personal Computer & iPad Coaching 23 Writers’Circle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Plenary Lectures

Africa: Triumphs and Challenges. . . . 19 America’s Opioid Epidemic . . . . . . . . 19 Antifa and What it Means . . . . . . . . . 19 Archeology of the Low Country . . . . 21

this program is sponsored by ambos Seafoods.

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Theodore Roosevelt and the Conundrums of Excess
Vanderbilts and Their Times Lecturer: Roger Smith

AmericA

  • Lecturer: Will Bryan
  • 2:00pm on Monday,

And the Gilded AGe

2:00pm on Monday, November 5

Born into the privilege associated with the American elite, Theodore Roosevelt became an unlikely antagonist to big business and a fitting punctuation mark at the end of the Gilded Age. Will Bryan of Georgia State University and Emory’s Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry reveals the paradox of TR, the

November 12

Perhaps no other

2:00pm on Mondays, October 8 – November 12

Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church • 50 Diamond Causeway

Lecture series: $60 members; $120 visitors

surname is more frequently and firmly associated with the

Individual lectures: $10 members; $20 visitors

Gilded Age than that

Robber Barons

of Vanderbilt. From

The Gilded Age and Its Mansions Lecturer: Christopher Hendricks 2:00pm on Monday, October 22 or Captains of Industry?

the “Commodore”

Lecturer: Byron Boyd

who founded the family fortune through water transportation to his progeny who at different times safeguarded and then squan-

2:00pm on Monday, October 8

With the Gilded Age in recent memory and the U.S. gripped by the Depression, Matthew Josephson reflected grimly in 1934 on many capitalists in his book,

The Robber Barons. Byron Boyd,

retired American history teacher at Savannah Country Day School, lays down the excesses of “robber barons” alongside the innovation and philanthropy of “captains of industry,” offering a mixed verdict on the era.
With staggering resources and highly skilled
“trust-busting” scion of wealth and dered millions, this lecture by The Learning a moderating influence on an age of indulgence.
Center’s director Roger Smith, captures this iconic family and its storied past. and solicitous architects, magnates of the Gilded Age lavished

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huge sums on sumptuous homes – urban mansions in New York City and fanciful “cottages” in Newport and elsewhere – with twin goals: unprecedented luxury and conspicuous consumption. History professor Chris Hendricks (GSU – Armstrong Campus) offers a deliciously illustrated presentation on the architecture that symbolized the period.

Holiday Getaway to the Jewel of Georgia’s Golden Isles

December 9 through 11, 2018

Program leader and lecturer: Roger Smith

Program price: $749 per person double occupancy (single supplement $250)

“All that Glitters”: Women of the

Jekyll Island’s rich history and architectural heritage converge in this holiday-themed getaway. The Island’s storied past and its illustrious inhabitants – the Rockefeller family in particular – come to life through thought-provoking lectures and fascinating visits to breathtaking millionaires’“cottages” in all their holiday finery. A perfect combination of fine dining and learning, of site visits

Gilded Age
The Muckrakers: Wearing the Gilt Away

Lecturer: Rebecca Rolfes 2:00pm on Monday, October 29

It wasn’t all mansions

Lecturer: Anastatia Sims 2:00pm on Monday, October 15

and millionaires. While
Confined by corsets and

constrained by Victorian mores, women occupied a realm all their own. and leisure, makes this the perfect early-December retreat. the rich kept comfort-

able through the labor

PRogRam HigHligHtS

• Concierge’s tour of the historic

Jekyll Island Club Hotel of the masses on their behalf, American writers
Stringent societal rules

imposed boundaries rarely crossed by respectable women, who nevertheless found brilliantly creative means by which to fashion unique existences. Anastatia Sims, history professor at Georgia Southern University, is a scholar of the Gilded Age and biographer of Juliette Gordon Low. shined light on the

• Millionaires’ cottages, decorated

system’s abuses and the for the holiday exploitation of the poor.

• The Rockefeller Experience

Journalist and managing co-owner of imagination! publications, Rebecca Rolfes highlights the writers who confronted society’s ills and sought lasting change as the U.S. entered the twentieth century.

• Jekyll Island’s slave ship

W a nderer memorial

• Georgia Sea Turtle Center

addition to their beauty and strength. This presentation by senior lecturer Cynthia Costa of GSU’s Armstrong Campus chronicles the life of Rodin from a struggling youth to the most celebrated sculptor of his time. tist George Sedberry reviews wreckfish biology and management in the U.S. and the world, examining the status of the fishery throughout its global range.

Charles Lamar and the Slave-Trader’s Letter-Book

Lecturer: Jim Jordan 5:30pm on Monday, October 8 Reception begins at 5:00pm

Skidaway

Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church 50 Diamond Causeway

Why Is the Bible a Book? Memory, Orality, and the Invention of Writing

$15 for members; $20 for visitors; add $5 after October 1

Massacre of Glen Coe

Lecturer: Emerson Thomas 5:30pm on Monday, October 22 Reception begins at 5:00pm
Subject: History/Local Interest
Lecturer: Daniel Pioske

Historian and author Jim Jordan has uncovered seventy lost letters by the notorious Savannahian Charles Lamar, infamous for his illegal importation of four hundred enslaved Africans to Georgia in 1858. Jordan’s book, The

Slave-Trader’s Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade, traces the outrageous

criminal life of Charles Lamar, sheds light on the history of the slave trade,

and describes the W a nderer’s impact on

the looming split in the Union.

5:30pm on Monday, November 5 Reception begins at 5:00pm

  • $15 for members; $20 for visitors;
  • $15 for members; $20 for visitors;

add $5 after October 29 add $5 after October 15

Subject: Religion/History
Subject: History

The Bible is fascinating in part because it was written in an ancient world in which almost no one could read. This lecture explores how the Bible came to exist and why it may have been written down at all. Georgia Southern University professor of philosophy and religious studies Dan Pioske retraces the history by which biblical stories transitioned from memorized and oral traditions to, in time, documents committed to writing by Hebrew scribes on scrolls.
In 1692 Scottish Highlanders of the Clan MacDonald were murdered on the order of the English King William III. How could this happen? Civil war, feuding clans, previous savage attacks on helpless civilians, and competing religious identities were factors leading to the Massacre of Glen Coe. Tom Thomas reveals how, even to this day, this historic atrocity is remembered in Scottish legend and song.

U.S.-Israeli Relations: A Seventy-Year Chronology

Instructor: Melinda Stein 3:30-4:30pm on Mondays, October 8 through November 12 $40 for members; $80 for visitors; add $15 after October 1

Copies of The Slave-Trader’s Letter-Book

Subject: History

will be available for sale at the program.

Israel, a nation the size of New Jersey and home to seven million inhabitants, occupies a special place in U.S. foreign policy. In 1948, President Truman hastened to make America the first nation to recognize Israel. In 2018, President Trump moved the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In the intervening decades, varying administrations have effected shifting policies, each shaping America’s relationship with the country Jesse Helms called “America’s aircraft carrier in the Middle East.” This course examines this unique partnership, its effects on the region, and its impact on relations between the U.S. and other countries.

What Is a Wreckfish
Fallen Empires: The Downfall of Dynasties in World War I

Lecturer: Cheryl Ciucevich 5:30pm on Monday, November 12 Reception begins at 5:00pm

and Why Should I Care?

Lecturer: George Sedberry 5:30pm on Monday, October 29 Reception begins at 5:00pm $15 for members; $20 for visitors; add $5 after October 22
$15 for members; $20 for visitors; add $5 after November 5
Subject: Science

Subject: History

When two exploratory

Auguste Rodin:

The assassination of Russia’s imperial family resonates a century later, but the Romanovs were not the only dynasty to lose a crown after the Great War. In Austria-Hungary, it was the death of the Hapsburg heir, Archduke Franz Ferdinand that launched the war. In Germany, the Hohenzollerns were also forced off the throne. This lecture by Georgia Southern’s alumni affairs associate director Cheryl Ciucevich chronicles the fall of empires and discovers what has become of these formerly great families.

Reflecting Humanity

Lecturer: Cynthia Costa 5:30pm on Monday, October 15 Reception begins at 5:00pm

vessels returned to dock in 1987 with a

$15 for members; $20 for visitors;

strange fish

add $5 after October 8

that tasted

Subject: Art History

like grouper, a race began to market the deepwater fish, and catches soared to more than 4 million pounds per year by 1990. To prevent overfishing, biologists and fishermen worked together to develop a scientific and economic basis for sustainability. Fisheries scien-

A New York native, Melinda Stein has made her home in both Israel and the U.S. She has lived in Savannah since 1974. She has undertaken topics at TLC that include the Bible and world reli- gions, Judaism and the state of Israel.

Auguste Rodin made sculpture a major art form in the late nineteenth century when painting had dominated academic favor for two centuries. He focused on human experience and represented the flaws and weaknesses of his subjects, in

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three-week courses at Bull Street

THREE-WEEK COURSES

Financial Inequality in America: Its History and Consequences

Instructor: Robert Pawlicki 11:00am – 12:00pm on Tuesdays, October 9 through 23 Subject: Social Sciences

Sea Turtles of the Georgia Coast

AT A GLAnCE

Instructor: Kris Williams Carroll

Tuesdays,

11:00am –12:00pm on Tuesdays, September 18

September 18 – October 2

through October 2
$25 for members; $50 for visitors; add $10 after October 2
Subject: Science

$25 for members; $50 for visitors; add $10 after September 11

11am – 12pm

Among the most reliably predic-

Sea Turtles

Kris Williams Carroll

tive factors of quality of life in any society is the financial equality – or inequality – of its citizens. This
For thousands of years, sea turtles have served as important symbols in many different cultures, yet within the last century, many populations have declined to near extinction. This course discusses the cultural significance of sea turtles and introduces the four species of sea turtles that nest along Georgia’s coast and the important ecological roles they fill. The program also highlights current research discoveries and the success of local conservation projects.

Kris Williams Carroll is originally from Long Island and holds an M.A. in biology from SUNY at Buffalo. She has been working with sea turtles since 1990, and in 1996 became director of the Caretta Research Project (CRP) in Savannah.

Thursdays, September 20 – October 4

11am – 12pm

course details the history of wealth inequality in the United States, explores the ways in which finan-

King Leopold

cial inequality affects quality of

Roger Smith

life in this country and around the globe, uncovers the reasons for which this one measure can be so powerful, and finally proposed what Americans can do to influence the disparity.

and Venessa Lott

Tuesdays, October 9 – 23

11am – 12pm

Financial Inequality

Robert Pawlicki

King Leopold’s Heart of Darkness

Robert Pawlicki is a retired psychologist with degrees from the University of Hartford, the University of Missouri, and Toronto’s York University. He has held full professorships at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and W e st Virginia University Medical Centers. His guest columns appear in the Savannah Morning News.

Instructor: Roger Smith in cooperation with Venessa Lott 11:00am –12:00pm on Thursdays, September 20 through October 4 Class meeting on September 27 extends until 1:15pm for a film and discussion. Subject: History/Literature

Thursdays, October 11 – 25

11am – 12pm

$25 for members; $50 for visitors; add $10 after September 13

Leopold II, King of the Belgians, took his place among European imperial powers who claimed colonies worldwide. Leopold is known most notoriously for the Congo Free State, a colony for his sole profit. Disregarding the Berlin Conference, Leopold greedily exploited the land and mercilessly mutilated and killed millions. This course consists of a lecture by Roger Smith with research from Venessa Lott, a documentary film with class discussion, and a review of Joseph Conrad’s short

novel, Heart of Darkness.

Biblical Animals

Animals of the Scriptures: A Biblical Menagerie

Instructor: Linda Sacks 11:00am – 12:00pm on Thursdays, October 11 through 25 $25 for members; $50 for visitors; add $10 after October 4 Subject: Religion/History

Linda Sacks

Tuesdays, October 30 – November 13

11am – 12pm

The presence of animals in the

Gender Identity

Melanie Mirande

Bible has long fascinated both scholars and lay readers. Are there

Thursdays,

deeper meanings to the serpent in

November 1 – 15

11am – 12pm

Southern Writers

Karen Neubauer

the Garden of Eden, Abraham’s ram caught in the thicket, the

Text for this course:

frogs of the Egyptian plagues, and the big fish that swallowed Jonah?
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (any edition)

Roger Smith is the founding director of The Learning
Center of SCI, having previously served as a classroom teacher of American literature and French and as director of education at the Georgia Historical Society.

V e nessa Lott earned a B.A. in sociology/psychology and spent most of her career in human resources for a major insurance company. In her retirement, she became an early member of The Learning Center and has served on its Advisory Council. She is also an active member of SCI’s Board of Directors.

This course explores the ancient

These courses take place at Senior Citizens, Inc., 3025 Bull Street, Savannah

and modern significance of these and other animals, and how Judaism and Christianity came to think (often differently!) about what each creature represents.

Linda Sacks, MD is a retired neonatologist, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. Her postgraduate studies were at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Studying the Bible in original Hebrew is one of her passions.

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    NNEELLLLIIEE BBLLYY iinn tthhee SSkkyy Following in the footsteps of journalist Nellie Bly on the 125th anniversary of her record-breaking race around the world Rosemary J Brown FRGS "I always have a comfortable feeling that nothing is impossible if one applies a certain amount of energy in the right direction." Nellie Bly 1889 For Pauline Copyright © 2015 by Rosemary J Brown The moral right of the author has been asserted. 2 NNEELLLLIIEE BBLLYY IINN TTHHEE SSKKYY Following in the footsteps of journalist Nellie Bly on the 125th anniversary of her record-breaking race around the world Rosemary J Brown FRGS "I am absolutely amazed, and thrilled, to find out about your trip around the world, à la Nellie Bly, and to read your accounts of it in your blog. And, needless to say, to hear that Eighty Days was helpful to you in your travels. Just know how impressed I am with your travels — you’re a worthy descendant of Nellie (and Elizabeth Bisland) themselves." Matthew Goodman, author of bestseller Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World. 3 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: ME AND NELLIE BLY ................................................................................................... 5 Chapter I: London, England IN WHICH NELLIE RACES FROM WATERLOO TO CHARING CROSS ........................................ 6 Chapter II: Amiens, France IN WHICH NELLIE MEETS JULES VERNE ............................................................................................... 7 Chapter III: Colombo, Sri Lanka (Ceylon) IN WHICH NELLIE IS DELAYED IN CEYLON ......................................................................................... 8 Chapter IV: Singapore IN WHICH NELLIE MAKES IT HALF-WAY ROUND THE WORLD ............................................. 13 Chapter V: Hong Kong IN WHICH NELLIE EXPERIENCES PEAKS...AND TROUGHS ........................................................ 15 Chapter VI: Guangzhou (Canton), China IN WHICH NELLIE EXPLORES TEMPLES AND TIME.....................................................................
  • Writers CENTER 52Nd Annual Conference Powerful Storytelling Today August 7-10, 2014 the Resort and Conference Center at Hyannis, Massachusetts

    Writers CENTER 52Nd Annual Conference Powerful Storytelling Today August 7-10, 2014 the Resort and Conference Center at Hyannis, Massachusetts

    CAPE COD writers CENTER 52nd Annual Conference Powerful Storytelling Today August 7-10, 2014 The Resort and Conference Center at Hyannis, Massachusetts Fiction Nonfiction Poetry Memoir Screenwriting Authors Agents Editors Publicists Guest Speakers Publishers Online Communication Pitch Practice Faculty Reception Manuscript Evaluations Mentoring Sessions Student Readings Welcome to the 52nd Cape Cod Writers Center Conference Powerful Storytelling Today August 7-10, 2014 The Resort and Conference Center at Hyannis 34 Scudder Avenue, Hyannis, MA 02601 Storytelling is a basic human impulse that appeals to people regardless of the era, content or form of those stories. Today's publishing climate has inspired the Cape Cod Writers Center to create a summer conference which not only enhances your literary skills but shows you how to promote your print and eBooks through social media. This year, the Center has also shortened the conference to three days of workshops, classes and mentoring sessions. The long weekend dates August 7-10 enable us to better accommodate those with 9 to 5 jobs, vacation plans and other family obligations. We’ll open the conference at the lovely Resort and Conference Center of Hyannis on Thursday afternoon, August 7, with a cocktail party at 4:00 p.m., followed by faculty introductions at 6 p.m. Classes begin the next morning at 8:30 a.m. and continue through Sunday afternoon, August 10. As you look through the pages of this brochure, you’ll discover a series of intriguing one-, two- and three-day workshops. These include workshops on flash fiction, four ways to “show not tell,” an insider’s view of publishing, creating villains, blogging a successful book, changes in contemporary fiction and so much more.
  • Travel and Transportation

    Travel and Transportation

    7 TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION The world is a book and those who don’t travel read only a page. Augustine of Hippo Goats cross the Zojila Pass in Kashmir, India. OBJECTIVES Work with a partner. Discuss the questions. 1 Where did you go on vacation last year? talk about transportation in a city 2 Look at the picture. Would you like to drive talk about a journey here? Why/Why not? talk about a vacation 3 Which countries would you like to visit? check in and out of a hotel write a short article about a travel experience TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION 61 MAC_LH_AMELT_SB_L1_FPP_pp041-070.indd 61 2/22/19 2:10 PM 7.1 Getting around Talk about transportation in a city V transportation P /eɪ/ and /oʊ/ G could VOCABULARY READING Transportation A READ FOR GIST Read Where in the world are they? What A Look at the pictures in Where in the world are they? is it about? What types of transportation can you see? What other 1 buildings 2 countries 3 transportation types of transportation can you think of? B SPEAK Work in pairs. Complete the quiz. B Go to the Vocabulary Hub on page 149. C SCAN Read Six quick facts. Match facts (a–f) with pictures C SPEAK Work in pairs. Think about a time you were in a (1–6) in the quiz. different country or city. Answer the questions. D READ FOR DETAIL Read Six quick facts again. Answer 1 What types of transportation did you use? the questions. 2 Were they difficult to use? Why? 1 How old are the buses in Mumbai? 3 Were they cheap or expensive? When I was in Vietnam last year, I took a motorcycle 2 How many San Francisco trolleys are there today? taxi.
  • (212) 765-6900 Boston Office 545 Boylston Street

    (212) 765-6900 Boston Office 545 Boylston Street

    New York Office 19 West 21st Street, Suite 501, New York, NY 10010 Telephone: (212) 765-6900 Boston Office 545 Boylston Street, Suite 1100, Boston, MA 02116 Telephone: (617) 262-2400 UPCOMING MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY UPCOMING MINDFULNESS / SELF-HELP BARRY SONNENFELD, CALL YOUR MOTHER YOU CAN’T F*CK UP YOUR KIDS RUST THE WEDGE BECOMING KIM JONG UN HEART, BREATH, MIND LEARNING BY HEART THE HILARIOUS WORLD OF DEPRESSION THIS IS BIG HI, JUST A QUICK QUESTION BETSEY: A MEMOIR BE WATER, MY FRIEND LAUGH LINES GROWING YOUNG SPACE IS THE PLACE THE SECRETS OF SILENCE THE EQUIVALENTS TRUE AGE ROCKAWAY MIRACLE COUNTRY UPCOMING NARRATIVE NONFICTION BRIGHT PRECIOUS THING HEAD OF THE MOSSAD THE WOMEN WITH SILVER WINGS GUCCI TO GOATS THE DOCTOR WHO FOOLED THE WORLD HOW TO SAY BABYLON BLOOD RUNS COAL WHICH GOD DO YOU MEAN? SPRINTING THROUGH NO MAN’S LAND BLIND AMBITION STRANGERS RHAPSODY MADHOUSE AT THE END OF THE EARTH CRYING IN THE BATHROOM CHASING THE THRILL NOTHING PERSONAL THE MISSION DOT DOT DOT TALKING FUNNY AUGUST WILSON SQUIRREL HILL REBEL TO AMERICA PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST UNTITLED MEMOIR BY TOM SELLECK INTELLIGENT LOVE I REGRET I AM ABLE TO ATTEND WATER AND SALT MUHAMMED THE PROPHET GUN BARONS CAN’T KNOCK THE HUSTLE THE SEEKERS CURE-ALL HORSE GIRLS NOSTALGIA KIKI MAN RAY THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOME ECONOMICS MURDER BOOK SPOKEN WORD ONBOARDING OSCAR WARS CONQUERING ALEXANDER FIRST TO FALL TANAQUIL THE VORTEX UNFORGETTABLE UPCOMING FICTION THE KINGDOM OF PREP THE GOLDEN DOOR HOW TO PRONOUNCE KNIFE BLOOD AND INK THE THIRTY NAMES OF NIGHT OTHER FRONTS ONLY
  • It Can't Be Done

    It Can't Be Done

    Middle grade historical fiction OHLIN www.peachtree-online.com IT CAN’T BE DONE, Get ready to join Nellie Bly in a race against time! Nellie Bly was one of America’s first investigative reporters. Brave and outspoken, if someone A Reporter’s told her, “It can’t be done, Nellie Bly,” she went Race Around right ahead and did it anyway. After reading Jules IT CAN’T BE DONE, The World Verne’s novel, Around the World in Eighty Days, Nellie dared herself to circle the globe even faster, while reporting on her journey. Nellie was eager Nellie Bly! to face almost any obstacle–sea sickness, violent storms, and strange foods–to get her story. But an Bly! Nellie unexpected twist turned Nellie’s adventure into a high-stakes race. Shocked and worried, Nellie was still determined to win. But can it be done? “Fun, factual, and well written.” NANCY —School Library Journal OHLIN 978-1-56145-686-4 $7.99 IT CAN’T BE DONE, A Reporter’s Race Around Nellie Bly!The World For the children of Saratoga Independent School Published by PEACHTREE PUBLISHING COMPANY INC. 1700 Chattahoochee Avenue Atlanta, Georgia 30318-2112 www.peachtree-online.com Text © 2021 by Nancy Ohlin First trade paperback edition published in 2014 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Cover design by Adela Pons Book design by Lily Steele Printed in January 2021 in the United States of America by Lake Book Manufacturing in Melrose Park, Illinois 10 9 8 7 6 (hardcover) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 (trade paperback) Revised edition HC ISBN: 978-1-56145-289-7 PB ISBN: 978-1-56145-686-4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Butcher, Nancy.
  • US Foreign Correspondence in the Dawn of Trans-Atlantic Cable

    US Foreign Correspondence in the Dawn of Trans-Atlantic Cable

    Becca J. G. Godwin, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "U.S. Foreign Correspondence in the Dawn of Trans-Atlantic Cable News: Episodic Reporting of the Killing of a French Journalist in Paris" In January 1870, U.S. newspapers and magazines--linked in direct communication with Europe since 1858 through the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable--published timely, episodic stories out of Paris about the ramifications of the killing of a young French journalist by a cousin of Emperor Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte III. The advent of “cable news" for a dramatic and continuing saga fulfilled the vision of earlier publishers to “eradicate time.” The cable allowed readers to follow serially the many episodes in the drama, from the shooting of Victor Noir to the mass street protests against the regime, the funeral, and the murder trial. “No one speaks of anything but the death of Noir!” exclaimed the famous Parisian author of Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert. U.S. press reports often sympathized with Victor Noir – partly because he was a journalist -- but also because the French Emperor Napoleon III was unpopular in America. During the American Civil War, Napoleon had considered intervening on the side the Confederacy. Then, while Americans were distracted by the war, Napoleon gained a foothold on the American continent when his army conquered Mexico and he installed a European prince Maximillian as Mexico’s emperor. This paper takes a fresh look at the episodic coverage of the case of Victor Noir – a journalist who became famous because of the manner of his death – a turning point in American foreign correspondence, highlighting the increasing use of overseas cable news from Europe, both for journalistic timeliness and for public consumption.
  • Mohr Library Book Discussion – Women's Panel More…

    Mohr Library Book Discussion – Women's Panel More…

    More … Mohr Library Book Discussion – Women’s Panel Monday, August 19 3:30 ––– 5: 5:30303030 PMPMPM Nellie Bly Elizabeth Bisland Eighty Days: May 5, 1864 – June 27, 1922 Fe bruary 11, 1 861 – January 6, 1929 Nellie Bly and Nellie Bly and “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.” Elizabeth BislandBisland’’’’ss ― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days HistoryHistory----MakingMaking RRRaRaaacece Around the World by Mathew Goodman This discussion group program is part of the Mohr Library’s participation in the national CSLP Adult Summer Reading Program: Marian J. M ohr Memorial Library One Memorial Avenue Johnston, RI 02919 401401----231231231231----49804980 www.mohrlibrary.org [from Random House] Book Su mmary How to par ticipate in a Discussion On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for [from Litlovers] Joseph Pulitzer’s World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day—and heading in the opposite direction by train—was a young journalist from The Cosmopolitan magazine, Elizabeth Bisland. Each woman was Watch your language! Try to avoid words like "awful" or determined to outdo Jules Verne’s fictional hero Phileas Fogg and circle the globe "idiotic"—even "like" and "dislike." They don't help move discussions in less than eighty days. The dramatic race that ensued would span twenty-eight forward and can put others on the defensive. Instead, talk about your thousand miles, captivate the nation, and change both competitors’ lives forever.