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...
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....
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...
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,”...
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...
America’s involvement in World War II accelerated the demands for civil rights. Manufacturing operations were quickly retooled to produce bombers, spurring full employment. Americans – Black and white – joined the military where many soon realized that the color of...
