WELCOME TO THE MONADNOCK SUMMER LYCEUM

The 2025 season has concluded but we will soon begin planning for the 2026 season. If you have suggestions for speakers or topics, please let us know through the contact form on this website. Use the same form to provide your postal address and be among the first to receive the brochure for the 2026 season when it comes out next May. Or provide your email address below to receive periodic updates, including a message each Monday during the season describing the upcoming speaker.

If you are kicking yourself because you missed a speaker whom you really wanted to hear, then stop kicking and start clicking: Use the links in the speaker lineup provided below to view a video of the day's program, including the music preceding the presentation, or to listen to an audio of the presentation. 

You aren't limited to the 2025 season in this regard. Our archive of recordings goes back to 2012 for audio and 2020 for video. There are a lot of entertaining and informative presentations in that collection. Do you wonder how Heather Cox Richardson saw the world in the bygone era of 2021? Or how Mary Shelley created the original Frankenstein (and his monster)? They're in there along with a lot of other material to sustain you until the Lyceum returns next summer.

With Gratitude

The Monadnock Summer Lyceum is made possible by the generous support of Monadnock Community Hospital, Peterborough Folk Music, Microspec Corporation, Belletetes Inc., Putnam Foundation, RiverMead, Bauhan Publishing, Cathy Cambal-Hayward, Realtor, Rosaly's Garden, and many individual contributors. Your support sustains this nearly 200-year tradition of public discourse and community learning. Thank you.

We look forward to welcoming you back next summer—in the pews or online!