Here are the current programs being planned. More will
follow.
*Book discussions at the Library are planned for
March 10 (1:30) and March 24 (1:30 and 7:30.)
*We are pleased to welcome Gary Hylander, a
well-known professor of American History from Stonehill, for a series on
American Justice. Registration is required so we can set up the appropriate
number of chairs. Contact
for information or
stop by the library.
- Thursday, March 5 at 7 pm: Sacco and Vanzetti
- Tried for the murders of a paymaster and guard of a
Braintree shoe factory, the case of Sacco and Vanzetti developed into
one of the nation’s great trials and an international “cause celebre”.
Were the defendants found guilty because of their unpopular political
beliefs, or did the weight of evidence presented to a Dedham jury
warrant their convictions and death by electrocution?
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- Monday, March 9 at 1:30 pm: The Power and Peril of
Celebrity: The Lindbergh Kidnapping
- Called the “crime of the century”, someone had
kidnapped and murdered the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, a national
hero. Even by today’s standard the media frenzy surrounding the trial
was extraordinary. Radio stations carried hourly updates of the
investigation, and journalists filed countless stories as the defendant,
Bruno Hauptmann, a German immigrant, stood trial for the
crime.
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- Thursday, March 19 at 7 pm: “Worse than Murder”:
The Rosenberg Atomic Spy Trial
- In an America caught up in the hysteria of the Second
Red Scare, McCarthyism, and international Communism, Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg were executed for espionage in June, 1953. More than 50 years
later, their trial and execution remains the subject of great debate and
acrimony.
- Gary L. Hylander earned his Ph.D. at Boston College.
His advisor and dissertation director was the noted Boston historian,
Thomas H. O’Connor. Dr. Hylander is a professor of American History at
Stonehill College where he specializes as a Presidential Historian. Gary
is a frequent presenter at library forums, historical societies, senior living centers,
and civic and professional organizations.
*On Thursday, March 26 at 7 pm we will be
showing one of the segments from Yo-Yo Ma's Inspired by Bach series. For Sony
Classics, Ma worked with six different art forms to bring Bach's cello suites
to life in new ways. The segment we will show uses the 6th suite and
highlights ice dancers Torvill and Dean along with a re-enactor portraying
Bach during a short but meaningful part of his life.
*On Tuesday, March 31 at 7:30 pm, Kim Holster
will give a talk on Mozart (probably the best-known child prodigy), his
childhood and his music. Ms. Holster is currently a music teacher in
Mansfield. She has given presentations at several professional
conferences and writes and edits the general music column for the
Massachusetts Music News, the professional publication of Mass music teachers.
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