by Barbara Lemos, Roving Reporter | May 13, 2022 | Lifelong Learners
The latest installment of the Barbee Library Max and Sarah Williams Life Long Learners program on Celtic History and Culture explored Celtic Britain and Roman Britain and the rise of the Celts and Picts in Scotland. Zooming in, about 30 participants listened to two...
by Barbara Lemos, Roving Reporter | Mar 25, 2022 | Lifelong Learners
This week’s session of Barbee Library’s Max and Sarah Williams Life Long Learners covered lectures five and six in the Great World Religions course, covering “The Muslim Community – Faith and Politics” and “Paths to God – Islamic Law and Mysticism.” One might...
by Barbara Lemos, Roving Reporter | Mar 11, 2022 | Lifelong Learners
The Barbee Library Max and Sarah Williams Life Long Learners group took a brief detour from their ongoing program on the “Great World Religions: Islam” to revisit a session from 2016 on Ukraine and Russia. Given current events, this lecture supplied important...
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....
