La Grua Center

Peter Filkins will speak on "Writing History, Writing Biography: Capturing H.G. Adler's Many Worlds". Peter Filkins is the Richard B. Fisher Professor of Literature at Bard College at Simon's Rock where he has taught since 1988 and is currently Chair of the Languages and Literature Department. His first love is writing poetry and of which

Tolly Boatwright is Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at Duke University, where she has taught for 40 years. Her education began at the Boro School and Mystic Junior High. Her love of Latin was first kindled at Pine Point and nurtured more at WMI, now The Williams School. She works on Roman history

Daniel Post Senning will speak on "What are Manners Today?". This event is free and open to the public. Daniel Post Senning is the great-great grandson of Emily Post and a co-author of Emily Post’s Etiquette, 19th edition and The Etiquette Advantage in Business, 3rd edition. He is also the author of Manners in a Digital World: Living Well Online.

Harry Martin will discuss "Brush Up Your Shakespeare". This event is free and open to the public.

Ben Coes will speak on his book "Bloody Sunday" at the La Grua Center. Parking for the La Grua Center is in the main lot of Stonington Commons 32 Water St., Stonington. This event is free and open to the public.

Yale University Press author Patrick Lynch, using his widely researched and lavishly illustrated book A GUIDE TO LONG ISLAND SOUND as reference, will describe the evolution of Long Island Sound, one of the most densely populated regions in the US: the formation, geology, and ecosystems, both marine and terrestrial of the Sound, and the gradual

Stephen Lash is Chairman Emeritus of Christie’s Americas. He has been involved with many of Christie’s most important auctions, including Van Gogh’s “Portrait of Dr. Gachet”, which made $82.5 million in 1990, the Nicholas Brown desk which sold for $12.1 million, the record for an American furniture piece, and the auction of Elizabeth Taylor’s jewelry

From Delmonico’s to Sylvia’s to Chez Panisse, Ten Restaurants that Changed America is a daring and original history of dining out in America as told through ten legendary restaurants. Combining a historian’s rigor with a foodie’s palate, Ten Restaurants that Changed America reveals how the history of our restaurants reflects nothing less than the history of America

This program will discuss Connecticut Early Music. Speaker and details to be announced. This event will take place at the La Grua Center, 32 Water St., Stonington.