Once again, the Monadnock Summer Lyceum will bring you “a feast
for the thoughtful" in 2006. Although our region has changed
greatly since the Lyceum began in 1827, the delights of our area remain
consistent: beautiful summers, music, art, theatre, mindful residents
and the Monadnock Summer Lyceum’s thought-provoking talks that
illuminate a spectrum of scintillating topics.
Steve Curwood ~ June
25 at 11AM
The Good News About Climate Action
Mr. Curwood
is the Executive Producer and Host of National Public Radio’s
award-winning weekly environmental news program,
Living On Earth. His hard-hitting, cutting-edge show
brings to the fore the environmental problems facing our world. His
show has won an Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio-Television
News Directors Association, the New York Festivals Award, a CINDY
Award, and the National Federation of Community Broadcasters
Community Radio Program Awards. He had previously been the recipient
of a Pulitzer Prize for his work at the Boston
Globe. Steve has a warm style that delivers his message to
the core of your soul. This program will be fresh and exciting from
start to finish.
www.loe.org/about/steve.htm
 Letty M. Russell ~
July 2 at 11AM
Hospitality in a World of Difference and Danger
Ms. Russell
is Professor Emeritus of Theology at Yale Divinity School. Her
presence on the world stage is felt through her works with the YDS
Women’s Initiative on HIV/AIDS in Africa, the International DMin
Program at San Francisco Theological Seminary, and the Steering
Group of the WCC study on Women’s Voices and Visions of the Church.
Through it all, she has found time to publish, in 2006, a book
entitled
Hagar, Sarah and Their Children: Jewish, Christian and Muslim
Perspectives. She will bring insights into welcoming
differences as drawn from the Bible and her ecumenical experience at
the Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Porto Allegre,
Brazil.
 Jamaica
Kincaid ~ July 9 at 11AM
Notes from a Seed Collector
Jamaica
Kincaid is famous as both a writer and a gardener. She travels the
world collecting seeds and building beautiful gardens, then writes
hard and tough about reality. She has received numerous awards and
honors for her work, including the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from
the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Lila Wallace–Reader’s
Digest Fund writer’s award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.
Coming from a hard-scrabble background, she has entered the echelons
of the top writers in the world. Her books are controversial,
painting vivid word pictures of a world few of us will know or
experience. Jamaica will read a few selected passages and we will go
on a journey through her world of joy and pain, happiness and
sadness, and find out what stirs the heart of this writer.
http://www.postcolonialweb.org/caribbean/kincaid/kincaidov.html
 Buzz
McLaughlin ~ July 16 at 11AM
The Making of an Independent Film
Mr.
McLaughlin is co-founder of either/or films, an independent film
company that shot its first feature-length film,
The Sensation of Sight, last fall in Peterborough. A
playwright whose work has won numerous awards including the National
Play Award, he is also the author of the best-selling book
The Playwrights Process, a former Professor of Theatre Arts
at Drew University, and founder and former Artistic Director of
Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey. Having spent nearly four decades
in the arts and entertainment industry, he will discuss why
either/or films took up residence in New Hampshire and what it took
to produce a feature film in the beautiful Monadnock region. His
insights will instruct and enlighten everyone about the state of the
film business today both inside and outside of Hollywood.
www.eitherorfilms.com
 Bill
Littlefield ~ July 23 at 11AM
Why I Have the World's Best Job
Mr. Littlefield is the writer in residence at Curry College and is
nationally known as an author and as a sports commentator. His
Only A Game is a weekly, one-hour sports magazine heard
nationally on National Public Radio. The show covers a wide range of
topics from the basic W's and L's to in-depth, sometimes humorous,
sometimes tragic, always thought-provoking issues of the day. He has
authored many highly regarded pieces, has won six Associated Press
Awards and was lauded as one of Boston’s “Literary Lights” by the
associates of the Boston Public Library. Bill will bring all this to
bear on a fast-paced, give-and-take talk about current sports topics
of interest to everyone. Be prepared to laugh and to see the games
in a different light.
www.onlyagame.org/about/staff/billlittlefield.asp
 Governor
Christine Todd Whitman ~ July 30 at 11AM
The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the
Future of America
Christine Todd Whitman is the former administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency and
former Governor of New Jersey. After a lifetime of public service
and political activism, she has published a memoir that speaks to
the future of her GOP and its need to woo the moderates. This
book also gives an in-depth look at the brash conservatism running
rampant in the administration:
“The Karl Rove strategy to focus so rigorously on the narrow
conservative base won the day, but we must ask at what price to
governing and at what risk to the future of the party.” This Lyceum
gives you two for the price of one. Our own Governor Walter
Peterson, the embodiment of New Hampshire politics, will take the
stage with
Ms. Whitman. The repartee of these great political professionals
will be exciting, informative, and thought provoking. On this day
you don’t want to miss, enjoy an insider’s view of politics.
 Reverend
Dr. Robin Meyers ~ August 6 at 11AM
Why the Christian Right is Wrong
A Ministers Manifesto for Taking Back Your Faith, Your Flag, Your Future
Dr. Robin Meyers has “spent his whole life trying to persuade people
that ‘liberal’ is not a dirty word, and that Christianity is a way of
life, not a set of creeds and doctrine demanding total agreement.” A
United Church of Christ minister and Oklahoma City University Professor
of Rhetoric, he became an Internet celebrity when his November 2004
antiwar remarks bounced from continent to continent gaining devotees.
Meyers’s latest book, endorsed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, expands 10 of
his most salient points into a manifesto that highlights the dichotomy
between the Right’s talk of Christian values and its walk. Robin
delivers an unambiguous, palpable blueprint for those who are indignant
over the direction of this country and feel that the time has come for
dignified but tangible resistance.
View Robin's latest book
MacDowell Medal Day ~ August 13 at 10AM
Selected Readings
Note: This event starts one hour earlier, at 10AM
MacDowell Medal Day- A Tribute to Alice Munro–August 13–10AM–Make note
of this special time for a special day in Peterborough. Join us for the
kick-off program to the MacDowell Colony's Medal Day as we honor the
recipient of the MacDowell Medal. This year, the Colony will honor the
great writer, Alice Munro. The Monadnock Lyceum will feature actors from
the Peterborough Players reading excerpts from the honoree's best work
and a musical interlude, provided by the world famous Monadnock Music
ensemble. We invite you to join us for an artful day of music and
professional readings as we honor another great MacDowell Medalist,
before you drive up the hill for the ceremonies and a peek inside the
Colony.
www.macdowellcolony.org
 Jill
Nelson ~ August 20 at 11AM
Living
in Parallel Universes or How to Enjoy Life When You’re Not Enjoying
Current Events
Ms. Nelson was born and raised in Harlem and has been a working
journalist for more than twenty years. She has written books and
articles on injustice, inhumanity and the human condition with
incisive, sardonic wit, along the way being named Washington, D.C.,
Journalist of the Year and winning the American Book Award. In
addition to writing, she worked as a Professor of Journalism at the
City College of New York. She will bring a lifetime of experiences
and observations to us, and with her usual wry humor and dynamic
delivery, will leave every one of us thinking that, in this world,
we can still be happy and move forward. Jill is a speaker much
sought after for her insights and wisdom.
www.jillnelson.com
 Dr.
Lionel Tiger ~ August 27 at 11AM
Evolution of the American Male
Dr. Tiger is
the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University.
He has had a pioneering role introducing biosocial data into the
social sciences and has been influential in broadening our knowledge
about why we do what we do. Controversial and world renowned, he
combines his scientific expertise with a lively sense of humor to
offer original, entertaining and informative lectures that challenge
what is entrenched or fashionable, and move intellectually where
others fear to tread. His new book is
The Decline of Males, in which he states that if the current
trend continues, women will surpass men in economic, social and
reproductive status — and that this seismic shift is not political
or moral, but biological. There will not be a dull moment.
www.Lioneltiger.com
Jaymie A. Durnan
A View of U.S.--China
Relations: Should we worry about China's Growth?
Jaymie Durnan
is an accomplished and kind soul who has agreed to fill in any
Sunday a Lyceum speaker is unavailable. Mr. Durnan is the founder
and partner of The Lehman Group, LLC, a business advisory firm,
following his stint as the Special Assistant to Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.
Jaymie recently returned from an economic mission to China and will
share insights into our rapidly developing economic relationship
with that nation as we buy their products and they buy our debt.
Will the 21st Century be China's century, or will China be just
another pretender to the throne occupied by the United States?
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