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SUMMARY:IN PERSON TALK: "Coffeeland" with Augustine Sedgewick
DESCRIPTION:The epic story of how coffee connected and divided the modern world\n \nCoffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world. But few coffee drinkers know this story. It centers on the volcanic highlands of El Salvador\, where James Hill\, born in the slums of Manchester\, England\, founded one of the world’s great coffee dynasties at the turn of the twentieth century. Adapting the innovations of the Industrial Revolution to plantation agriculture\, Hill helped turn El Salvador into perhaps the most intensive monoculture in modern history—a place of extraordinary productivity\, inequality\, and violence. In the process\, both El Salvador and the United States earned the nickname “Coffeeland\,” but for starkly different reasons\, and with consequences that reach into the present. \nProvoking a reconsideration of what it means to be connected to faraway people and places\, Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism. \n  \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-coffeeland-with-augustine-sedgewick/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
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SUMMARY:IN PERSON TALK: "Red Line" with Joby Warrick
DESCRIPTION:From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Black Flags\, the thrilling unknown story of America’s mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons and keep them out of the hands of the Islamic State \nIn August 2012\, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. When secret intelligence revealed that the dictator might resort to using chemical weapons\, President Obama warned that doing so would cross “a red line.” Assad did it anyway\, bombing the Damascus suburb of Ghouta with sarin gas\, killing hundreds of civilians and forcing Obama to decide if he would mire America in another unpopular Middle Eastern war. When Russia offered to broker the removal of Syria’s chemical weapons\, Obama leapt at the out. \nSo begins an electrifying race to find\, remove\, and destroy 1\,300 tons of chemical weapons in the midst of a raging civil war. The extraordinary little-known effort is a triumph for the Americans\, but soon Russia’s long game becomes clear: it will do anything to preserve Assad’s rule. As America’s ability to control events in Syria shrinks\, the White House learns that ISIS\, building its caliphate in Syria’s war-tossed territory\, is seeking chemical weapons for itself\, with an eye to attacking the West.\n\nRed Line is a classic Joby Warrick true-life thriller: a character-driven narrative with a cast of heroes and villains\, including weapons hunters\, politicians\, doctors\, diplomats\, and spies. Drawing on astonishing original reporting\, Warrick reveals how the United States embarked on a bold adventure to prevent one catastrophe but could not avoid a tragic chain of events that empowered America’s enemies. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-red-line-with-joby-warrick/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "Blood and Treasure" with Tom Clavin
DESCRIPTION:The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America’s frontier \nIt is the mid-eighteenth century\, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain\, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America’s “First Frontier” beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet\, the French\, and finally against the mother country itself in an American Revolution destined to reverberate around the world. \nThis is the setting of Blood and Treasure\, and the guide to this epic narrative is America’s first and arguably greatest pathfinder\, Daniel Boone―not the coonskin cap-wearing caricature of popular culture but the flesh-and-blood frontiersman and Revolutionary War hero whose explorations into the forested frontier beyond the great mountains would become the stuff of legend. Now\, thanks to painstaking research by two award-winning authors\, the story of the brutal birth of the United States is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and larger-than-life men and women\, white and red\, who witnessed it. \nThis fast-paced and fiery narrative\, fueled by contemporary diaries and journals\, newspaper reports\, and eyewitness accounts\, is a stirring chronicle of the conflict over America’s “First Frontier” that places the reader at the center of this remarkable epoch and its gripping tales of courage and sacrifice. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-blood-and-treasure-with-tom-clavin/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "Our Team" with Luke Epplin
DESCRIPTION:In July 1947\, not even three months after Jackie Robinson debuted on the Brooklyn Dodgers\, snapping the color line that had segregated Major League Baseball\, Larry Doby would follow in his footsteps on the Cleveland Indians. Though Doby\, as the second Black player in the majors\, would struggle during his first summer in Cleveland\, his subsequent turnaround in 1948 from benchwarmer to superstar sparked one of the wildest and most meaningful seasons in baseball history. \nIn intimate\, absorbing detail\, Luke Epplin’s Our Team traces the story of the integration of the Cleveland Indians and their quest for a World Series title through four key participants: Bill Veeck\, an eccentric and visionary owner adept at exploding fireworks on and off the field; Larry Doby\, a soft-spoken\, hard-hitting pioneer whose major-league breakthrough shattered stereotypes that so much of white America held about Black ballplayers; Bob Feller\, a pitching prodigy from the Iowa cornfields who set the template for the athlete as businessman; and Satchel Paige\, a legendary pitcher from the Negro Leagues whose belated entry into the majors whipped baseball fans across the country into a frenzy. \nTogether\, as the backbone of a team that epitomized the postwar American spirit in all its hopes and contradictions\, these four men would captivate the nation by storming to the World Series–all the while rewriting the rules of what was possible in sports. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-our-team-with-luke-epplin/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED!!!IN PERSON TALK: "A History of America in Ten Strikes" with Erik Loomis
DESCRIPTION:A History of America in Ten Strikes―published in the wake of the teachers’ strike that swept the country in 2018―challenges all of our contemporary assumptions around labor\, unions\, and American workers. Labor historian Erik Loomis recounts ten critical workers’ strikes in American labor history in “chapters [that] are self-contained enough to be used on their own in union trainings or reading groups” (Labor Notes)\, and adds an appendix detailing the 150 most important strikes in American history. These labor uprisings do not just reflect the times in which they occurred\, but speak directly to the present moment\, where American workers are still fighting for basic rights like a livable minimum wage. \nFrom the Lowell Mill Girls strike in the 1830s to Justice for Janitors in 1990\, “what Loomis’s book perhaps does best is remind us that the promise of the labor movement\, despite its many failures and compromises\, has always been to make everyday life more democratic” (The New Republic). \nAs a new generation of workers flexes their muscles with renewed strike campaigns on behalf of teachers\, autoworkers\, and nurses\, we have much to learn from both the victories and defeats of the past\, from the boots up. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-a-history-of-america-in-ten-strikes-with-erik-loomis/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "Veritas" with Ariel Sabar
DESCRIPTION:In 2012\, Dr. Karen King\, a star religion professor at Harvard\, announced a breathtaking discovery just steps from the Vatican: she’d found an ancient scrap of papyrus in which Jesus calls Mary Magdalene “my wife.” The mysterious manuscript\, which King provocatively titled “The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife\,” had the power to topple the Roman Catholic Church. It threatened not just the all-male priesthood\, but centuries of sacred teachings on marriage\, sex\, and women’s leadership\, much of it premised on the hallowed tradition of a celibate Jesus. \nAward-winning journalist Ariel Sabar covered King’s announcement in Rome but left with a question that no one seemed able to answer: Where in the world did this history-making papyrus come from? Sabar’s dogged sleuthing led from the halls of Harvard Divinity School to the former headquarters of the East German Stasi before landing on the trail of a Florida man with an unbelievable past. Could a motorcycle-riding pornographer with a fake Egyptology degree and a prophetess wife have set in motion one of the greatest hoaxes of the century? A propulsive tale laced with twists and trapdoors\, Veritas is an exhilarating\, globe-straddling detective story about an Ivy League historian and a college dropout–and how they worked together to pass off an audacious forgery as a long-lost piece of the Bible. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-veritas-with-ariel-sabar/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "Dress Codes" with Richard Thompson Ford
DESCRIPTION:Dress codes are as old as clothing itself. For centuries\, clothing has been a wearable status symbol; fashion\, a weapon in struggles for social change; and dress codes\, a way to maintain political control. Merchants dressing like princes and butchers’ wives wearing gem-encrusted crowns were public enemies in medieval societies structured by social hierarchy and defined by spectacle. In Tudor England\, silk\, velvet\, and fur were reserved for the nobility\, and ballooning pants called “trunk hose” could be considered a menace to good order. The Renaissance-era Florentine patriarch Cosimo de Medici captured the power of fashion and dress codes when he remarked\, “One can make a gentleman from two yards of red cloth.” Dress codes evolved along with the social and political ideals of the day\, but they always reflected struggles for power and status. In the 1700s\, South Carolina’s “Negro Act” made it illegal for Black people to dress “above their condition.” In the 1920s\, the bobbed hair and form-fitting dresses worn by free-spirited flappers were banned in workplaces throughout the United States\, and in the 1940s\, the baggy zoot suits favored by Black and Latino men caused riots in cities from coast to coast. \nEven in today’s more informal world\, dress codes still determine what we wear\, when we wear it—and what our clothing means. People lose their jobs for wearing braided hair\, long fingernails\, large earrings\, beards\, and tattoos or refusing to wear a suit and tie or make-up and high heels. In some cities\, wearing sagging pants is a crime. And even when there are no written rules\, implicit dress codes still influence opportunities and social mobility. Silicon Valley CEOs wear t-shirts and flip-flops\, setting the tone for an entire industry: women wearing fashionable dresses or high heels face ridicule in the tech world\, and some venture capitalists refuse to invest in any company run by someone wearing a suit. \nIn Dress Codes\, law professor and cultural critic Richard Thompson Ford presents a “deeply informative and entertaining” (The New York Times Book Review) history of the laws of fashion from the middle ages to the present day\, a walk down history’s red carpet to uncover and examine the canons\, mores\, and customs of clothing—rules that we often take for granted. \n  \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \n 
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-dress-codes-with-richard-thompson-ford/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "A Shot in the Moonlight" with Ben Montgomery
DESCRIPTION:After moonrise on the cold night of January 21\, 1897\, a mob of twenty-five white men gathered in a patch of woods near Big Road in southwestern Simpson County\, Kentucky. Half carried rifles and shotguns\, and a few tucked pistols in their pants. Their target was George Dinning\, a freed slave who’d farmed peacefully in the area for 14 years\, and who had been wrongfully accused of stealing livestock from a neighboring farm. When the mob began firing through the doors and windows of Dinning’s home\, he fired back in self-defense\, shooting and killing the son of a wealthy Kentucky family. \nSo began one of the strangest legal episodes in American history — one that ended with Dinning becoming the first Black man in America to win damages after a wrongful murder conviction. \nDrawing on a wealth of never-before-published material\, bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery resurrects this dramatic but largely forgotten story\, and the unusual convergence of characters — among them a Confederate war hero-turned-lawyer named Bennett H. Young\, Kentucky governor William O’Connell Bradley\, and George Dinning himself — that allowed this unlikely story of justice to unfold in a time and place where justice was all too rare. \n  \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-a-shot-in-the-moonlight-with-ben-montgomery/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "Stampede" with Brian Castner
DESCRIPTION:In 1897\, the United States was mired in the worst economic depression that the country had yet endured. So when all the newspapers announced gold was to be found in wildly enriching quantities at the Klondike River region of the Yukon\, a mob of economically desperate Americans swarmed north. Within weeks tens of thousands of them were embarking from western ports to throw themselves at some of the harshest terrain on the planet–in winter yet–woefully unprepared\, with no experience at all in mining or mountaineering. It was a mass delusion that quickly proved deadly: avalanches\, shipwrecks\, starvation\, murder. \nUpon this stage\, author Brian Castner tells a relentlessly driving story of the gold rush through the individual experiences of the iconic characters who endured it. A young Jack London\, who would make his fortune but not in gold. Colonel Samuel Steele\, who tried to save the stampeders from themselves. The notorious gangster Soapy Smith\, goodtime girls and desperate miners\, Skookum Jim\, and the hotel entrepreneur Belinda Mulrooney. The unvarnished tale of this mass migration is always striking\, revealing the amazing truth of what people will do for a chance to be rich. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-stampede-with-brian-castner/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "The Nine" with Gwen Strauss
DESCRIPTION:The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky\, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. \nThe nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe\, harbored parachuting agents\, coordinated communications between regional sectors\, trekked escape routes to Spain and hid Jewish children in scattered apartments. They were arrested by French police\, interrogated and tortured by the Gestapo. They were subjected to a series of French prisons and deported to Germany. The group formed along the way\, meeting at different points\, in prison\, in transit\, and at Ravensbrück. By the time they were enslaved at the labor camp in Leipzig\, they were a close-knit group of friends. During the final days of the war\, forced onto a death march\, the nine chose their moment and made a daring escape. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-the-nine-with-gwen-strauss/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Museums on the Green":MAILTO:info@museumsonthegreen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220127T190000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "The Confidence Men" with Margalit Fox
DESCRIPTION:THE CONFIDENCE MEN\nHow Two Prisoners of War Engineered The Most Remarkable Escape in History\nA lawyer.  A mechanic. A Ouija board.  One of the greatest cons ever.  But Harry Jones and Cedric Hill weren’t your typical Confidence Men. They were British officers imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during World War I.  Had it not been for “the Great War\,” they would never have met. Jones was the Oxford-educated son of a British lord and trained as a lawyer. Hill was a mechanic on an Australian sheep ranch and a brilliant magician. The two men had already survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert. To stave off despair and boredom\, Jones took a handmade Ouija board and started faking elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Well\, word got around. One day an Ottoman official approached Jones with a query: Could he contact the spirit world to find a vast treasure rumored to be buried nearby? Why\, certainly! The prisoners used the Ouija board—and their keen understanding of the psychology of deception—to build a trap for their iron-fisted captors that ultimately led them to freedom.  Find out how. \n“Fox unspools Jones and Hill’s delightfully elaborate scheme in nail-biting episodes that advance like a narrative Rube Goldberg machine.”—The New York Times Book Review \n  \nPURCHASE THIS BOOK ONLINE FROM EIGHT COUSINS BOOKSTORE \n\nREGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE\nNON-MEMBER $10/MEMBERS $5 \n  \nMANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-the-confidence-men-with-margalit-fox/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED-VIRTUAL TALK: "All the Frequent Trouble of Our Days" with Rebecca Donner
DESCRIPTION:ALL THE FREQUENT TROUBLES OF OUR DAYS\nThe True Story of The American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler\nIn 1932\, Mildred Harnack began holding secret meetings in her apartment.  Together\, this small band of political activists wrote leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution. Under the cover of night\, they slipped the leaflets into mailboxes\, public restrooms\, and phone booths around Berlin. Mildred also began helping  Jews escape\, plotting acts of sabotage\, and recruiting more and more working class Germans to the cause.  By 1940\, hers was the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired\, Mildred became a spy\, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. But\, on the eve of her escape to Sweden\, the Gestapo ambushed her. At a Nazi military court\, a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison camp\, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On February 16\, 1943\, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded.  Mildred Harnack was born and raised in Milwaukee.  At twenty-six\, she was enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party firsthand. Historians identify her as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance\, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown—until now.  Harnack’s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on extensive archival research across four countries and brilliantly interweaves letters\, diary entries\, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison\, survivors’ testimony\, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful\, epic story of this courageous woman. \nPURCHASE THIS BOOK ONLINE FROM EIGHT COUSINS BOOKSTORE \n\nREGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE\nNON-MEMBER $10/MEMBERS $5 \n  \nMANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-all-the-frequent-trouble-of-our-days-with-rebecca-donner/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Museums on the Green":MAILTO:info@museumsonthegreen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220120T120000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "An Atlas of Extinct Countries" with Gideon Defoe
DESCRIPTION:AN ATLAS OF EXTINCT COUNTRIES\nGet ready for this irreverent look at the history of defunct nations and the larger-than-life personalities behind them…from one of the funniest writer’s around.  Here’s a sample: \nCountries die. Sometimes it’s murder\, sometimes it’s by accident\, and sometimes it’s because they were so ludicrous\, they didn’t deserve to exist in the first place. Occasionally they explode violently. A few slip away almost unnoticed. Often the cause of death is either “got too greedy” or “Napoleon turned up.” Now and then they just hold a referendum and vote themselves out of existence. \nThis is an atlas of 48 nations that fell off the map. The polite way of writing an obituary is: dwell on the good bits\, gloss over the embarrassing stuff. This book refuses to do so\, because these dead nations are so full of schemers\, racists\, and con men that it’s impossible to skip the embarrassing stuff. \nBecause of this – and because treating nation-states with too much reverence is the entire problem with pretty much everything – these accounts are not concerned with adding to the earnest flag saluting in the world\, however nice some of the flags might be. \n\nPURCHASE THIS BOOK ONLINE FROM EIGHT COUSINS BOOKSTORE \n\nREGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE\nNON-MEMBER $10/MEMBERS $5 \n\nMANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-an-atlas-of-extinct-countries-with-gideon-defoe/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
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