by Barbara Lemos, Roving Reporter | Jan 14, 2022 | Lifelong Learners
This week’s session of the Barbee Library Max and Sarah Williams Life Long Learners series “How Winston Churchill Changed the World” explored Churchill’s pivotal decision to fight Germany rather than to surrender to those around him urging appeasement. This was the...
by Barbara Lemos, Roving Reporter | Oct 29, 2021 | Lifelong Learners
The Max and Sarah Williams Life Long Learners Program at Barbee Library (streaming live on Zoom on Thursdays at 10am) is now exploring the Great Courses series of “How Winston Churchill Changed the World.” The first session was led by Marti Fowler and attended by 30...
by Barbara Lemos, Roving Reporter | Aug 29, 2021 | Lifelong Learners
What can we learn from history? How can it help us today? Last week’s Max and Sarah Williams Life Long Learners program at Barbee Library (Thursdays, 10am via Zoom) featured two lectures by Dr. Rufus Fears from the “The Wisdom of History” Great Courses series....
by Barbara Lemos, Roving Reporter | Jun 12, 2021 | Lifelong Learners
In the final installment of the Barbee Library Life Long Learners series on DNA, 32 participants on Zoom learned about CRISPR, the gene editing technology promising brilliant medical breakthroughs or apocalyptic ethical perils (or both). CRISPR stands for Clustered...
by Barbara Lemos, Roving Reporter | May 14, 2021 | Lifelong Learners
Much of success comes from being in the right place at the right time; the rest comes from publishing your results first. Barbee Library’s Life Long Learners program on “The History of DNA” illustrated this in this week’s installment, “The Double Helix Revealed,”...
by Barbara Lemos, Roving Reporter | Mar 19, 2021 | Lifelong Learners
Securing a decent and equal education has been a far-too-long, far-too-hard struggle for Blacks in America, even in Brunswick County. In the latest Max and Sarah Williams Life Long Learners program hosted by Barbee Library, Liz Fuller of the Southport Historical...
