Museums announce lecture slateDate: 10/27/2016 SPRINGFIELD – The Springfield Museums’ monthly tour and lecture schedule continues in November with the popular Museums à la Carte lectures, which take place on Thursdays at 12:15 p.m. in the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts. Admission is $4 ($2 for members of the Springfield Museums); visitors are invited to bring a bag lunch (cookies and coffee are provided). For more information, call 413-263-6800, ext. 488.
November’s lectures are:
Nov. 3 – How to Recall Trauma and Tragedy: The Memorial de la Resistance in Troyes, France, Dr. Simon P. Sibelman discusses France’s attempt to create a fitting tribute to honor the underground resistance in World War II. Sibelman is Prof. Emeritus of French, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh; Prof. Emeritus of French and Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies, Appalachian State University.
Nov. 10 – William Merritt Chase: An Old-Fashioned American Modernist. Gloria Russell, art historian, lecturer, retired art critic, writer, teacher, talks about the modern elements of William Merritt’s work and their subtle, graceful balance between tradition and recent French Impressionism.
Nov. 17 – WWI Nurse Edith Cavell’s Fate: Decision or Destiny. Terri Arthur, RN, BS, MS, author, British nurse, gives an overview about how Cavell was a key link in the underground effort to rescue Allied soldiers, and how her execution ultimately helped to bring the US into World War I.
As an added feature, museum docents will be leading guided gallery discussions titled “Continuing Conversations” following lectures on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month (Museums members only). November’s “Conversation” will take place on Nov. 10 with Adele-Gladstone-Gilbert at the George Walter Vincent Smith Museum (there is no lecture on Nov. 24 due to Thanksgiving).
On Nov. 4 at 7:30 p.m., the Springfield Science Museum’s large rooftop telescope will once again be open for public sky gazing for the monthly “Stars Over Springfield” observatory program. Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for children 17 and under. These programs are held rain or shine. At the Nov. 4th event, Ed Faits, President of the Arunah Hill Natural Science Center, will give a short talk titled “Cruising the Universe: Through Our Solar System and Beyond.”
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