Winter/Spring 2020

February 4 Bruce Pittman Director of Commercial Space Development; Chief System Engineer, NASA Ames Research Center, Silicon Valley

How Billionaires Are Changing the Space Program

February 18 Mark Lapadula, Playwright and Screenwriter, Film Producer and Senior Lecturer, Yale University Film Studies Program

The Greatest Romantic Moments in Movies

March 3 David Troxel, Worked in Dementia Care for over 30 years

The Art of Dementia Care

March 17 Caroline Cocciardi, Author, Student of all things da Vinci

Leonardo’s Knots  NOTE: this lecture is cancelled due to COVID 19

April 7

Sean Hartley, Leading Authority on the History of  the Broadway Musical

Four Musicals That Changed Broadway  NOTE: this lecture is cancelled due to COVID 19

April 21 Michael Kodas, Author and Photo Journalist

Living With Megafires NOTE: this lecture is cancelled due to COVID 19

May 5 Elizabeth Cobbs, Melbern G. Glasscock Professor of History, Texas A & M University

Defender of the Nation: Harriet Tubman and the Civil War  NOTE: this lecture is cancelled due to COVID 19

May 19 Carl Raymond, Professionally Trained Chef, bringing together the worlds of food, history, literature and opera
Foothill College

From Dickens to Downton: The World of Victorian and Edwardian Food  NOTE: this lecture is cancelled due to COVID 19

June 2 David Kennedy, Stanford Professor of History, Emeritus; Founder of the Bill Lane Center for the American West

The Transcontinental Railroad at 150: Reflections on the History of the American West NOTE: this lecture is cancelled due to COVID 19