Events

Jane's musical journey starts in 1943 with "Pistol Packin' Mama" and a brown footstool "piano", and winds through a series of odd musical instruments.  A college romance (that led to marriage) began with the discovery that they had identical Hohner 64 Chromonica harmonicas.  A love of folk music, camp songs, and opera have run through […]

Interesting facts and stories about the 18th and 19th century industrial powerhouse, Springfield, MA, and the fascinating story of "The Monkey Wrench Building" and the Springfield Armory. An Encore! program from the Spring 2025 seminar History in the Pioneer Valley and presented by David Rothenberg.

An Encore! program from the Spring 2025 seminar The Wyeths presented by Terry Rosenfeld.

Virginia Hall, "The Lady with the Limp", was an American spy and one of the very successful spies of World War II.  She operated in France and Spain, helping the resistance, organizing sabotage cells.  Though Virginia Hall lost her leg in her early 20's and used a wooden leg, she was never caught.  She continued […]

The presentation talks about the fort built in Cairo at the beginning o the Civil War at the junction of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.  General Grant launched attacks from his base in Cairo down the Mississippi River; a "Contraband Camp" in Cairo was set up for formerly enslaved who fled the South.  There was […]

In the years 1900 to mid-1930's or 1940's, many Americans considered Winslow Homer to be the greatest American painter.  He painted scenes of nature and rural life in both oils and watercolors.  It was inevitable that many people would see similarities when Andrew Wyeth began to paint.  My presentation looks at a lot of paintings […]