fall PROGRAM OFFERINGS 2018 SEPTEMBER THROUGH DECEMBER Around the World in Fewer than 80 Days! Special Events Lecturer: David Jones Around the World in Fewer than Artifactscontents at the Georgia Capitol . 16 Monday, October 1 80 Days! . i Auguste Rodin: Refl ecting Humanity . 4 5:00pm reception; 5:30pm program; Art Gallery Opening: Fran Th omas . 22 Charles Lamar and the Slave-Trader’s 6:15pm reception continues Discovering Daufuskie Island . i Letter-Book . 4 Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church From Monet to Matisse . 16 Deadliest Catch . 20 50 Diamond Causeway Holiday Sing-Along . 23 Everyday Racism in America . 18 $15 for members; Introducing: Healthwise Fallen Empires of World War I . 5 free for visitors invited by members Movement and Stillness . 24 Fort King George . 15 Open House $25 TLC credit for members whose guests Sex and the Senior . 24 Gilded Age and Its Mansions . 2 become members on October 1 Travel Wellness . 25 Giorgio Vasari . 14 Yoga Studio . 25 Ivan Bailey This is the amazing story of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland and their & His Savannah Ironwork . 21 race against each other and Jules Verne’s fictional traveler, Phileas Fogg, to Travel King David . 14 circumnavigate the globe in fewer than 80 days in 1889-1890. Accomplished Jekyll Island: Enclave of Millionaires . 3 Managing and Curating journalists and fierce competitors, theirs is a compelling story of amazing Louisisana Sojourn . 11 a Savannah Art Gallery . 23 adventures and misadventures in the days when traveling was unpredictable, Paris to Normandy . 9 Mary Shelley and Frankenstein . 15 dangerous, and all the more challenging for single young women. Pre-registration required Multi-Week Courses Massacre of Glen Coe . 5 Muckrakers: Wearing the Gilt Away . 2 American South in Film (9) . 26 Newspaper Publishing in a New Age 20 Ancient Egyptian Art Power of Branding . 16 INAUGURAL FALL LECTURE AND LUNCHEON and Architecture (9) . 13 Restoring the Berrien House . 15 Animals of the Scriptures (3) . 7 Resurgent Russia . 18 Contemporary Southern Authors (3) . 8 Rethinking Savannah’s Image . 15 Fall of France, 1940 (8) . 9 DiscoveringLecturers: Jenny Hersch Daufuskie and Sallie Ann RobinsonIsland Robber Barons or Captains 12:00 noon on Wednesday, September 12 Financial Inequality in the U.S (3) . 7 of Industry? . 2 Lunch buffet begins at 11:30am Gender Identity (3) . 8 Sea Level Rise in Coastal Georgia . 14 First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Avenue Great War: On the Battlefi eld Th eordore Roosevelt and the $25 per person and Homefront (9) . 10 Conundrums of Success . 3 King Leopold’s Heart of Darkness (3) 6 U.S. Immigration . 19 Lying between Savannah and Hilton Head with its Louisiana in Fact and Fiction (9) . 11 own isolated allure, Daufuskie Island seems like a Vanderbilts and Th eir Times . 3 Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil (9) 10 world away. Electricity came only in the 1950s, the first What Is a Wreckfi sh? . 5 telephone rang there in 1972, and even today the island is accessible only Russia Since the Revolution (8) . 13 Why is the Bible a Book? . 5 by water. In their new book, Jenny Hersch and Sallie Ann Robinson capture Russian Composers (9) . 12 Women of Th e Gilded Age . 2 the mystique of Daufuskie: home to Native Americans and enslaved people, Sea Turtles of the Georgia Coast (3) . 6 Special Interests haven to pirates and Freedmen, military outpost, and today the enclave of Southwestern Native Americans (9) . 12 a unique culture. Their extensive archival research, island-based interviews, U.S.-Israeli Relations (6) . 4 Art Studio . 23 and never-before-published photographs form the basis for this presenta- Book Club . 17 Plenary Lectures tion, complemented by a Daufuskie-inspired buffet menu including corn Foreign Language Conversation . 22 salad, seafood gumbo, and peach cobbler prepared by SCI’s executive chef Africa: Triumphs and Challenges . 19 Local Vocals Choir . 23 David Pressley, in consultation with lecturer and cookbook author Sallie Ann America’s Opioid Epidemic . 19 Personal Computer & iPad Coaching 23 Robinson. Copies of the authors’ book will be available for sale at the event. Antifa and What it Means . 19 Writers’ Circle . 23 This program is sponsored by Ambos Seafoods. Archeology of the Low Country . 21 i Register online at www.seniorcitizensinc.org/tlc 1 Theodore Roosevelt and the Vanderbilts and Their Times AmericA Conundrums of Excess Lecturer: Roger Smith Lecturer: Will Bryan 2:00pm on Monday, And the Gilded AGe 2:00pm on Monday, November 5 November 12 2:00pm on Mondays, October 8 – November 12 Born into the privilege associ- Perhaps no other Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church • 50 Diamond Causeway ated with the American elite, surname is more Lecture series: $60 members; $120 visitors Theodore Roosevelt became an frequently and firmly Individual lectures: $10 members; $20 visitors unlikely antagonist to big business associated with the and a fitting punctuation mark at Gilded Age than that Robber Barons the end of the Gilded Age. Will of Vanderbilt. From or Captains of Industry? The Gilded Age and Its Mansions Bryan of Georgia State University the “Commodore” Lecturer: Byron Boyd Lecturer: Christopher Hendricks and Emory’s Bill and Carol Fox who founded the family fortune through 2:00pm on Monday, October 8 2:00pm on Monday, October 22 Center for Humanistic Inquiry water transportation to his progeny who at With the Gilded Age in recent With staggering reveals the paradox of TR, the different times safeguarded and then squan- memory and the U.S. gripped resources and “trust-busting” scion of wealth and dered millions, this lecture by The Learning by the Depression, Matthew highly skilled a moderating influence on an age Center’s director Roger Smith, captures this Josephson reflected grimly in 1934 and solicitous of indulgence. iconic family and its storied past. on many capitalists in his book, architects, The Robber Barons. Byron Boyd, magnates of retired American history teacher the Gilded Age lavished clAv at Savannah Country Day School, islAnd: en e of million huge sums on sumptuous homes – urban ekyll Aires lays down the excesses of “robber j Holiday Getaway barons” alongside the innovation mansions in New York City and fanciful and philanthropy of “captains of “cottages” in Newport and elsewhere – with to the Jewel of Georgia’s Golden Isles industry,” offering a mixed verdict twin goals: unprecedented luxury and conspic- December 9 through 11, 2018 on the era. uous consumption. History professor Chris Program leader and lecturer: Roger Smith Hendricks (GSU – Armstrong Campus) offers “All that Glitters”: a deliciously illustrated presentation on the Program price: $749 per person double occupancy (single supplement $250) Women of the architecture that symbolized the period. Jekyll Island’s rich history and architectural heritage converge in this Gilded Age The Muckrakers: Wearing the Gilt Away holiday-themed getaway. The Island’s storied past and its illustrious Lecturer: inhabitants – the Rockefeller family in particular – come to life through Anastatia Sims Lecturer: Rebecca Rolfes 2:00pm on Monday, October 29 thought-provoking lectures and fascinating visits to breathtaking 2:00pm on Monday, millionaires’ “cottages” in all their holiday finery. A perfect October 15 It wasn’t all mansions and millionaires. While combination of fine dining and learning, of site visits Confined by corsets and and leisure, makes this the perfect early-December retreat. constrained by Victorian the rich kept comfort- mores, women occupied able through the labor PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS a realm all their own. of the masses on their • Concierge’s tour of the historic Stringent societal rules behalf, American writers Jekyll Island Club Hotel shined light on the imposed boundaries rarely crossed • Millionaires’ cottages, decorated by respectable women, who never- system’s abuses and the exploitation of the poor. for the holiday theless found brilliantly creative • The Rockefeller Experience means by which to fashion unique Journalist and managing existences. Anastatia Sims, history co-owner of imagination! publications, • Jekyll Island’s slave ship professor at Georgia Southern Rebecca Rolfes highlights the writers who Wanderer memorial University, is a scholar of the Gilded confronted society’s ills and sought lasting • Georgia Sea Turtle Center Age and biographer of Juliette change as the U.S. entered the twentieth Gordon Low. century. Charles Lamar and the addition to their beauty and strength. tist George Sedberry reviews wreckfish Slave-Trader’s Letter-Book This presentation by senior lecturer biology and management in the U.S. Lecturer: Jim Jordan Cynthia Costa of GSU’s Armstrong and the world, examining the status of SkidawaySkidaway Island Presbyterian Church 5:30pm on Monday, October 8 Campus chronicles the life of Rodin the fishery throughout its global range. 50 Diamond Causeway Reception begins at 5:00pm from a struggling youth to the most $15 for members; $20 for visitors; celebrated sculptor of his time. Why Is the Bible a Book? add $5 after October 1 Memory, Orality, and the Subject: History/Local Interest Massacre of Glen Coe Invention of Writing Lecturer: Emerson Thomas Lecturer: Daniel Pioske Historian and author Jim Jordan has 5:30pm on Monday, October 22 5:30pm on Monday, November 5 uncovered seventy lost letters by the Reception begins at 5:00pm Reception begins at 5:00pm notorious Savannahian Charles Lamar, $15 for members; $20 for visitors; $15 for members; $20 for visitors; infamous for his illegal importation add $5 after October 15 add $5 after October 29 of four hundred enslaved Africans to Subject: History Subject: Religion/History Georgia in 1858. Jordan’s book, The Slave-Trader’s Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, In 1692 Scottish Highlanders of the The Bible is fascinating in part because U.S.-Israeli Relations: the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the Clan MacDonald were murdered on it was written in an ancient world in A Seventy-Year Chronology African Slave Trade, traces the outrageous the order of the English King William which almost no one could read.