Abundance and Scarcity: The Tangled Web of Food Systems Food systems can have a negative or positive impact on the environment, our bodies, our communities and the other sentient creatures we share our earth with. On one hand, food systems should ensure food security and improved … [Read more...] about Lyceum: Abundance and Scarcity: The Tangled Web of Food Systems
Whallonsburg Grange Lyceum Series
Lyceum: Entangled Storytelling: History and Historical Fiction
Entangled Storytelling: History and Historical Fiction This conversation between a novelist and a historian will discuss the entangled roots of two closely related types of narrative: history and historical fiction. It will look at the ways in which what might look like very … [Read more...] about Lyceum: Entangled Storytelling: History and Historical Fiction
Lyceum: Disentangling Art: How the Adirondacks Changed Landscape Painting
Disentangling Art: How the Adirondacks Changed Landscape Painting This lecture presents dual perspectives. Katherine Manthorne analyzes paintings of the Adirondack wilderness to show how this distinctive regional terrain pushed the Hudson River School Artists – female and male – … [Read more...] about Lyceum: Disentangling Art: How the Adirondacks Changed Landscape Painting
Lyceum: Legacies of 1609: Entangled Cultures of War in the Champlain Valley
Legacies of 1609: Entangled Cultures of War in the Champlain Valley The arrival of Europeans to the Champlain Valley in 1609 fundamentally changed how Indigenous and European societies practiced war, with repercussions on both sides for centuries. Speaker: Dr. … [Read more...] about Lyceum: Legacies of 1609: Entangled Cultures of War in the Champlain Valley
Lyceum: Entangled Lives: How Fungi Work in Our World
Entangled Lives: How Fungi Work in Our World Tonight’s presentation looks at the fungi in the Adirondack forest, how they grow, how they enrich the soil and connect trees and plants, and why they play such a vital role in our world. Mycologist Susan Hopkins who lives … [Read more...] about Lyceum: Entangled Lives: How Fungi Work in Our World