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SPRING LUNCHEON AND MEETING
Please join us for luncheon and a conversation, "Life in the Independent Lane", featuring two Center members, Barbara Bell, environmental activist, and Rosalie Feldman, independent journalist. Ellen Brainard will moderate.
The Slate of Officers: READING GROUP For the past few years, Center members have met in a monthly reading group, devoting each year to a single work or a group of related works: one year, for example, a number of Greek plays; another year, Beowulf; another year, the group explored the writing of three women novelists spanning three centuries: George Eliot (Daniel Deronda), Virginia Woolf (The Waves), and Shirley Hazzard (/The Great Fire ). This year two novels The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni and The Leopard by Guiseppe di Lampedusa that deal with historical perios in Italy have been selected for discussion. (Interested in joining? Contact Ruth Schmitt, 203-865-1491, or ruth.hein@snet.net The group usually meets once a month on Tuesday afternoons. INTERESTED IN JOINING A HISTORY STUDY GROUP? A new History Reading/Discussion Group will begin in the Fall of 2009. The readings will focus on the question: "How do societies evolve and cope (or fail to cope) with challenges?" We welcome your participation. For information, contact CIS member Richard Yanowitz (ryanowitz@clearwords.net)
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