The Lincoln Academy provides opportunities for intellectual and cultural exploration and development for the citizens of Lincoln. The Academy is a place where individuals of diverse backgrounds meet to share interests and develop appreciation and knowledge in new areas. Members volunteer as “instructors,” planners and committee members according to their skills. The Academy goals are to enable its members to learn, to express themselves, and to enjoy cultural experiences in a friendly, stimulating and cooperative atmosphere among their contemporaries. Through its programs, the Academy can enhance, enrich, and extend the quality of life of its members. We all have interesting lives to share – childhood, schooling, travel, unusual or interesting careers or witnesses to important events. You are encouraged to submit your experiences and interests or to suggest other speakers. If you have a life experience you would like to share, contact Crawley Cooper at (781) 259-0476.
Bring a bag lunch to Bemis Hall on Mondays at 12:30. We provide beverages and dessert. The lectures last about an hour, including a question and answer period. Participants are welcome to stay after the program to socialize and continue their discussion. The nursery school at the First Parish has generously offered us the opportunity to park in their lot and it is helpful if their parents have a chance to pick up children before we arrive.
Wish you could have seen one of the programs that you missed? Those programs with an asterisk after them are available on DVD from the Library! You may also click on those titles that are underlined and you will be directed to the videos on Lincoln’s Pegcentral video site.
Speakers
April 30, 2012 — Christy Foote-Smith: Audubon
April 23, 2012 — Rick Wiggin: Forgotten Lincoln Heroes and Untold Stories of the American Revolution
April 9, 2012 — Heidi Webb: A New Construct of Divorce
April 2, 2012 — Crawley Cooper: Abe Lincoln: Lecturer, Discoveries, and Inventions*
March 26, 2012 — Jeanne Bracken: The Making of a Best Seller*
March 19, 2012 — Stephen Carter: Lincoln’s New Fire Chief*
March 12, 2012 — Brad Meyer: Audio Acoustic Delights
March 5, 2012 — Jane Cooper: Charles Reid*
February 27, 2012 — Carol Becker: Post-War Mental Health in Kosovo, 2000-2006*
February 13, 2012 — Ted Tucker, Blacksmith*
January 30, 2012 — John LeGates: Aging Well*
January 23, 2012 — Nancy Boulton: Living in China, 1981 – 1989*
January 9, 2012 — Wen Stephenson: Why Walden Matters Now
December 19, 2011 — Susan Ingalls: Coyotes*
December 12 — Dwight Gertz: As Far North as You Can Go — Spitzbergen*
December 5, 2011 — Craig Donaldson: The Halifax Explosion*
November 28, 2011 — Roger Paine: Growing Up, Then and Now*
November 21, 2011 — Michael O’Donnell: Fire Safety*
November 14, 2011 — Steven Davis: On African Safari*
November 7, 2011 — Chris Hamilton and Barbara Sampson: Haiti’s Mantenwa* School*
October 31, 2011 — Ron McAdow: Massachusetts Landscape History*
October 24, 2011 — Linda McMillan: Patagonia*
October 17, 2011 — Jonathan Fine: Life in Village India*
September 26, 2011 — Terry King: Life and Career of Gregor Piatigorsky*
September 19, 2011 — Mark Hopkins: Adriatic Sea Travels*
September 12, 2011 — Joan Kimball: Trip to China*
May 16, 2011 — Mark Hopkins: Galapogos
May 9, 2011 — Walter Bossert: The Supreme Court, Part I and Part II
May 2, 2011 — John Ollquist: The Lincoln-Sudbury Scholarship Fund*
April 25, 2011 — Ray Tomlinson: The Story of Email*
April 11, 2011 — Katherine Mierzwa: Charles and Ray Eames, Part A, B, and C*
April 4, 2011 — Richard Boynton: Rocket Scientist and Inventor*
March 28, 2011 — Mark Goldblatt: Mental Illness and Violence*
March 21, 2011 — Rebecca Yang: The Lahey Clinic Breast Health Center for Excellence*
March 14, 2011 — Adam Caper: The Venture Capitalist New Role*
February 14, 2011 – Katherine Hall Page: Mystery Writer*
January 31, 2011: Owen Beenhouer: Escaping the Nazis*
January 24, 12:30 pm — Alexander Pugh: Limits to Growth*
January 10, 2011 — David Gray: University of Massachusetts*
December 20, 2010 — Walter Bossert: Sleeping with the Nukes*
December 13, 2010 — Tete Cobblah: What’s In a Name?*
December 6, 2010 — Alex MacLean: New Photographs, New Ideas*
November 29, 2010 — Michael Levine: Jewels of the Earth’s Thrilling Kingdom: A Travelogue in Photos*
November 22, 2010— Walter Bossert: Jefferson: The Man and His Music*
November 15, 2010— Peter Alden: The Ups and Downs of Birds*
November 8, 2010 — Rob and Harriet Todd and Lucia MacMahon: Egypt Travels*
November 1, 2010 — Lucretia Giese: American Icon,, Washington Crossing the Delaware*
October 25, 2010 — Amilie Kass: Smallpox in Boston, 1721: History in the Making*
October 18, 2010 — Diana Abrashkin: Curacao — UNESCO World Heritage Site*
October 4, 2010— Crawley Cooper: Civil War Diaries*
September 27, 2010 — Mike O’Donnell, Lincoln Fire Department: Be Prepared for Emergencies*
September 13, 2010 — Jeff Clements: The Citizens-United Case and the Supreme Court*
June 7, 2010 — Bill Gaines: Indoor Air Quality*
May 24, 2010 —Dan Boynton: Trip to India*
May 17, 2010 — John O’Keefe: The Burning Man Festival in Nevada*
May 7, 2010 — John Moses: Can Haiti Make It*
May 3, 2010 — Juliet Rago-McNamara: Artist’s Work*
April 26, 2010 — John Ganson: Diving at Scapa Flow*
April 12, 2010 — Lewis Schneider: Bel Canto Opera*
March 29, 2010 — Alex MacNeil: Who Was Shakespeare?*
March 22, 2010 — Mohammed Nooraee: Oriental Rugs*
March 15, 2010 — Yu Sing Jung: Childhood in Occupied Hong Kong*
March 8, 2010 — Margie Yamamoto: Japanese Internment*
February 22, 2009 — Janet & Dan Boynton: Darkest Peru*
February 8, 2009 — Kelly Dunn: DeCordova: Past, Present, and Future*
February 1, 2009 — Jeffrey Cramer: Thoreau’s Maine Woods*
January 25, 2009— Susan Winship: Sudan Update, Here & Afar*
January 11, 2009 — Frank Heart: Arpanet, which is a Progenitor of the Internet*
January 4, 2009 — Richard Lyman and Kay Dunn Lyman: Senior Biking in Europe*
December 21, 2009 — Catherine Manegold: Ten Hills Farm*
December 14, 2009 — Alan Eschenroeder: Railroad History; A Personal Memoir*
December 7, 2009 — Peter Sugar: The Work of Architect Eduardo Catalano*
November 30, 2009 — Dudley Herschbach: Genesis of Long-lived Meteor Trails*
November 23, 2009 — Pam Pacelli: The Boston By Foot Program*
November 16, 2009 — Thomas Beardsley, PhD: The Transcendentalists and the Old Manse in Concord*
November 9, 2009 — Joe Rosen: Should Street Drugs Be Made Legal?*
November 2, 2009 — Dr. Arnold Weinberg: Infectious Diseases in Lincoln and Tick Borne Diseases*
October 26, 2009 — Donald Dawes: Waltham Watch*
October 19, 2009—Mark Hopkins: Honduras*
September 28, 2009—Chief Kevin Mooney: Lincoln Police
September 21, 2009—James Gross: Death with Dignity*
September 14, 2009 — Robert Phelps: God & the Editor*
May 18, 2009 — Lauren Erb: Battling Carcinoids *
May 11, 2009 — Craig Hill: Translating French Poet Jean de la Fontaine*
May 4, 2009 — Marko Bonito: A Personal View of the Eruption of Mt. St. Helens*
April 27, 2009— Enid Winchell and Paul Davis: England in Word War II*
April 13, 2009 — Prajna & Ted Hallstrom: The Karuna School at Walden*
April 6, 2009 — Benjamin Horne: Galapagos Trip*
March 30, 2009 — Kemon Taschioglou: Anatolia, Anatolia*
March 23, 2009 — Wayne Mount: Spies in the Skies*
March 16, 2009 — Wendy Hubbard: An Overview of the Gropius House*
March 9, 2009— Rob Todd: Drumlin Farm History
February 23, 2009 — Alexander MacLean: Above Real Estate*
February 9, 2009 — Ludwig Luft: Stupid Adventures*
February 2, 2009 — Herman Karl: Mediation between Politics and Science*
January 26, 2009— Robert Brannen: Renovating an 11th Century Villa in Tuscany*
January 12, 2009 — Harold Miller: The Golden Age of Publishing*
December 8, 2008 — Alexander Creighton: Reconverting a Home to Green, a Case Study*
November 17, 2008 — Robert Lemire: Lexia Reading Software *
November 10, 2008 — Linda Dittmar: Palestinian History
October 27, 2008 — Alan Eschenroeder: Future Energy Systems: Environmental Impacts*
October 20, 2008 — John Cowles: National Energy Outlook*
October 6, 2008 — Charles Resnick: Alternate Dispute Resolution
September 29, 2008 – Avram Kalisky: Israel – An Optimist’s View of Its History*
September 22, 2008 — Patricia Rosalind Warner: My Career as a Minor WWII OSS Agent*
September 15, 2008 — Bert Kessel: Iwo Jima: The Gateway to Victory in Japan*
September 8, 2008 — Kip Kumler, Turtle Creek Winery: Wine Making in Lincoln*
