by Christina Dryden | Mar 25, 2024
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is welcomes wildlife biologist, Tom Rogers, to talk about the effects of climate change on Vermont’s natural world. Vermont, like the rest of the planet, is facing the dual crises of climate change and the...
by Christina Dryden | Mar 22, 2024
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is delighted to welcome yoga instructor, Barbara Lowes, to lead this yoga workshop focusing on brain longevity. The mission of this four-week class is to help prevent memory related diseases and help individuals...
by Christina Dryden | Mar 15, 2024
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is excited to partner with the Manchester Historical Society to present this talk about old maps of Manchester, VT. Join Manchester Historical Society Curator Shawn Harrington for an engaging evening looking at maps...
by Christina Dryden | Feb 24, 2024
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes economist Peter Radford to talk about the state of the U.S. economy in this election year. So how is it doing? What are the issues that could be most problematic? In this presentation we take a look at the...
by Christina Dryden | Feb 21, 2024
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Tim Duclos, Forest Program Ecologist with Audubon Vermont, to talk about bird conservation. Join us for a presentation focused on Vermont’s forest birds and the basic concepts that any landowner can apply...
by Christina Dryden | Feb 19, 2024
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Dr. Jan Albers to talk about the history of Vermont’s Merino wool industry. At the dawn of the 19th Century, Vermont was a patchwork of subsistence farms, slowly creeping along the valleys and...
by Christina Dryden | Feb 14, 2024
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to show us the magical process of creating felt from wool fibers in this needle felting workshop. Starting with a Styrofoam egg core, students will cover it in a background color...
by Christina Dryden | Feb 14, 2024
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is happy to welcome back artist and teacher Anharad Llewelyn to lead this pet portrait painting workshop. Working from a digital photo of your favorite pet’s face, you will learn how to paint an acrylic portrait...
by Christina Dryden | Feb 13, 2024
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is excited to partner with the Manchester Historical Society to present this talk about growing up on top of Equinox Mountain. Join Courtney Mutz Callo for an evening of reminiscing about her childhood living above...
by Christina Dryden | Feb 9, 2024
In the midst of great evil, it is the courageous man or woman who refuses to succumb, and Peter Ertel was one such man. Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is excited to offer the screening of The Unimaginable Journey of Peter Ertel, which will take...
by Christina Dryden | Feb 9, 2024
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Washington University Professor Dr. Mark Valeri to talk about how early Anglo-Americans came to embrace religious liberty. From 1650 through 1760, English descriptions of the religions of the world –...
by Christina Dryden | Jan 26, 2024
This documentary is a journey among the most beautiful archaeological finds Egypt has left us. Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is excited to offer the screening of The Immortals: The Wonders of the Museo Egizio, which will take place at the...
by Christina Dryden | Jan 25, 2024
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this workshop, where students will learn to “bend” glass rods to create this cool optical illusion effect. While the technique looks complicated, this is a beginner...
by Christina Dryden | Jan 25, 2024
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Jonathan Silverman to take us on a historical tour through Japanese aesthetics through the lens of ceramics. From indigenous Jomon work from 10,000 years ago to the six ancient kilns in what we call...
by Christina Dryden | Jan 2, 2024
This is not just a documentary, but an amazing journey inside the mind of the most controversial artist of our time. Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is excited to offer the screening of “Jeff Koons: An Intimate Portrait”, which will...
by Christina Dryden | Dec 29, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this workshop where participants will learn to create fused glass jewelry… pendants and earrings… using dichroic and millefiori glass. This is a beginner friendly workshop...
by Christina Dryden | Dec 19, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is delighted to welcome back Dr. John Delano to talk about NASA’s search for life beyond Earth. In addition to NASA’s sophisticated rovers, Perseverance and Curiosity, that are currently exploring the surface...
by Christina Dryden | Dec 13, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Norwich University Professor Dr. Miri Kim to talk about both the historic and the current relations between China, Taiwan and the U.S. This talk will discuss how changing economic and diplomatic connections...
by Christina Dryden | Dec 8, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is excited to welcome back Albany Law School Professor Vincent Bonventre to talk about the Supreme Court. There is a six-justice majority of Republican appointees on the current court. They are decidedly more...
by Christina Dryden | Nov 30, 2023
Hubert Schriebl will lead us on a photographic journey through the Himalayan expeditions he was part of in the making of the still-definitive map of the Everest Region. This major project was sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation of Cologne, in collaboration with...
by Christina Dryden | Nov 28, 2023
This is a journey into the great beauty of Baroque Rome, when the city was the center of western art and where every ambitious painter, sculptor and architect had to be. Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is excited to offer the screening of...
by Christina Dryden | Nov 13, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Hubert Schriebl to lead us on a photographic journey through the Himalayan expeditions he was part of in the making of the still-definitive map of the Everest Region. This major project was sponsored by the...
by Christina Dryden | Nov 10, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this holiday craft workshop. In this hands-on workshop, we will start with a block of stained wood, form the outline with hammer and nails and then weave the strings into a...
by Christina Dryden | Nov 4, 2023
Winning over popes and emperors with his iconic, revolutionary works, Titian succeeded in becoming one of the artists that symbolized the entire Renaissance. Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is excited to offer the screening of ‘Titian: The...
by Christina Dryden | Oct 26, 2023
On the 50th anniversary of the ’73 war Israel was again surprised by a brutal assault. This one was different: civilians, not soldiers, bore the brunt of the Hamas attack and of the Israeli response. Does this prove that the region is condemned to endless war and...
by Christina Dryden | Oct 20, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this ceramic mug workshop. Come Play with clay!! In this fun beginner-friendly workshop, students will create a functional ceramic mug from a flat slab of clay. Then they...
by Christina Dryden | Oct 20, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is honored to welcome Chairman of the Tällberg Foundation, Alan Stoga, to talk about the war in Israel. On the 50th anniversary of the ’73 war Israel was again surprised by a brutal assault. This one was different:...
by Christina Dryden | Oct 19, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Dartmouth College Professor Matthew F. Delmont to talk about African Americans fighting World War II at home and abroad. Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at...
by Christina Dryden | Sep 29, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is delighted to welcome back Dr. John Delano to talk about NASA’s Artemis Program. Artemis is a multinational effort to return astronauts to the lunar surface with the goal of establishing a permanent base on...
by Christina Dryden | Sep 28, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Shawn Harrington of the Manchester Historical Society to talk about the history of the Equinox Preserve. Mount Equinox (3,816 feet) is part of the northernmost sweep of the Taconic Mountains and is...
by Christina Dryden | Sep 25, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) in partnership with Southern Vermont Arts Center, is excited to present this program on Bartlett Arkell and the Southern Vermont artists. Bartlett Arkell, American businessman and philanthropist had a leading role...
by Christina Dryden | Sep 18, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Steven Hail, a leading modern monetary theory (MMT) economist, to talk about the myth of the federal deficit. ‘The Deficit Myth’, a 2020 New York Times bestseller by Stephanie Kelton, former...
by Christina Dryden | Sep 18, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) presents the first in a new series – “Raising Resilient Children Speaker Series”. We are introducing this series to help bring awareness, support, and access to resource information for kids’...
by Christina Dryden | Sep 13, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning is excited to present the Manhattan Short Film Festival. Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning is excited to present the Manhattan Short Film Festival. For one week this fall over 100,000 film lovers will gather in...
by Christina Dryden | Sep 6, 2023
Southern Vermont Arts Center and Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning are thrilled to present a program by internationally known artist, Stephen Hannock. Stephen Hannock is an American luminist painter known for his atmospheric landscapes and incendiary...
by Christina Dryden | Aug 25, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Madeline Zeif to talk about urban beekeeping, a rapidly growing phenomenon as cities become increasingly environmentally conscious. Since the legalization of beekeeping in New York City in 2018 the industry...
by Christina Dryden | Aug 23, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes economist Peter Radford to talk about artificial intelligence. AI is sometimes seen as a threat to human civilization. Other times it is seen as a boon. Which is it? We are still in the early days of AI...
by Christina Dryden | Aug 8, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Elena Sabbi, the Deputy Mission Head of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) to talk about the James Webb Space Telescope. NASA’s most powerful telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was...
by Christina Dryden | Jul 26, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes chef and mushroom forager Ian Vair to talk about edible wild mushrooms that grow in the northeast. These species have been used around the world for thousands of years. We will discuss many of the most...
by Christina Dryden | Jul 24, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes back arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this dot mandala on pottery workshop. In Buddhist culture, mandalas are said to transmit positive energy to the environment and to the people who view them. They are...
by Christina Dryden | Jul 19, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Colin Calloway, Dartmouth College Professor of History, to talk about the Indian World of George Washington. George Washington’s place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His life...
by Christina Dryden | Jul 19, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Middlebury College Professor Paul Monod to talk about the history of British coronations and the royal image. The media attention given to Charles III’s recent coronation brings up a number of significant...
by Christina Dryden | Jul 17, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this needle felting workshop. Enjoy the look of nature’s beautiful desert plants without the prickles. In this beginner friendly felting workshop, you will learn how to...
by Christina Dryden | Jun 16, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is hosting a two-part series on the end of neoliberalism. After forty years of neoliberal politics and economic policy, are we about to turn a corner? Is the Reagan era coming to an end? If so, what might follow? Is...
by Christina Dryden | Jun 8, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Bill Freedman to talk about Israel and the assault taking place on liberal democracy. Democracy, which enjoyed an upsurge not very long ago, has fallen into a deepening recession—in Hungary, Poland, Turkey,...
by Christina Dryden | May 26, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Shawn Harrington of the Manchester Historical Society to talk about the history of the Equinox Preserve. Mount Equinox (3,816 feet) is part of the northernmost sweep of the Taconic Mountains and is...
by Christina Dryden | May 25, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Elizabeth Coleman back to lead the final conversation in the three-part series about arts behind the scenes. Join us on a journey as we, the audience, gain insight into the world of creativity. This is a...
by Christina Dryden | May 15, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes chef and mushroom forager Ian Vair to talk about medicinal wild mushrooms that grow in the northeast. These species have been used around the world for thousands of years. We will discuss many of the most...
by Christina Dryden | Apr 27, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this sterling silver necklace workshop. We will be using three different sterling bead shapes to represent the dots, dashes and spaces of Morse Code. We will then be using...
by Christina Dryden | Apr 12, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is happy to welcome back Rabbi Bob Alper to talk about the spirituality of laughter. A serious lecture with an average of two genuine belly laughs per minute, this program explores humor in ancient through modern...
by Christina Dryden | Apr 11, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Gloria Gilbert Stoga, founder of Puppies Behind Bars, to talk about the organization and its mission of training prison inmates to raise working dogs for the world-at-large. Labrador Retriever puppies enter...
by Christina Dryden | Apr 6, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Tim Wheeler to talk about Earth’s atmosphere, which is largely invisible to us, yet is a defining trait of our planet and is essential to sustaining a stable environment on the surface. That life can...
by Christina Dryden | Feb 24, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is honored to host a panel discussion concerning the current state of global democracy. Democracy faces challenges. Some might say it is in crisis, both here in the U.S. and around the world. Join us for an informed...
by Christina Dryden | Feb 22, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Anne Corso, Executive Director at Southern Vermont Arts Center, to talk about artwork by women artists in the collection of SVAC. Ask a Vermonter to name a famous painter from the state and one will likely...
by Christina Dryden | Feb 22, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning welcomes Rosanna Moran and the Tall Spire Ringers to lead this interactive concert and workshop. They will ring some of your favorite music and then invite audience members to try their hand at ringing the bells! It is NOT...
by Christina Dryden | Feb 14, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes artist Elinor Katz to lead this mosaic workshop. Picque Assiette Mosaic is a universally practiced craft. Artisans use shards of old ceramic china dishes, pottery and other related bits and pieces to create...
by Christina Dryden | Feb 13, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is excited to partner with the Manchester Historical Society to present this talk about the history of The Pullman Company. In 1867 George Pullman hit on an idea that would revolutionize train travel across the...
by Christina Dryden | Feb 10, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is happy to welcome back Bill Freedman to lead this study of poetry. Poetry by six of the most significant English language poets of the 20th century will be examined in this six-week program. We’ll begin with poems...
by Christina Dryden | Feb 7, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is happy to welcome back Middlebury College Professor Matthew Dickinson to talk about partisanship in America. Journalists, politicians, and cable-news pundits tell us that America is a deeply divided nation. But is...
by Christina Dryden | Feb 3, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes back arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this dot mandala on pottery workshop. In Buddhist culture, mandalas are said to transmit positive energy to the environment and to the people who view them. They are...
by Christina Dryden | Jan 23, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is happy to welcome back artist and teacher Anharad Llewelyn to lead this pet portrait painting workshop. Working from a digital photo of your favorite pet’s face, you will learn how to paint an acrylic portrait...
by Christina Dryden | Jan 12, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is excited to partner with the Manchester Historical Society to present this talk about the history of Manchester Center. Join us for a look back at the changes in Manchester Center over the past 260-plus years,...
by Christina Dryden | Jan 11, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is happy to welcome back writer and photographer Christopher Dant to talk about photographs of Abraham Lincoln. Of the 136 photographs believed to have been made of Abraham Lincoln, only a handful remain today,...
by Christina Dryden | Jan 9, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes wine experts Nancy Koziol and Kaiya Kirk to lead this special wine-tasting class. Call it a Hallmark Holiday if you wish but Valentine’s Day is celebrated around the world. In countries and cultures...
by Christina Dryden | Jan 9, 2023
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning is excited to present the screening of ‘What is Cinema?’ This documentary by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman tackles the question of its title with over 100 clips and interviews with filmmakers...
by Christina Dryden | Dec 23, 2022
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this needle felting workshop. We will be crafting a whole “parliament” of wooly owls in this beginner friendly felting workshop. Participants will learn how to make a solid...
by Christina Dryden | Dec 16, 2022
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Rodney Smolla, president of the Vermont Law and Graduate School, to talk about freedom of speech which is enshrined in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Many colorful cases have explored the...
by Christina Dryden | Dec 15, 2022
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning is excited to present the screening of The Artist and the Astronaut, an unlikely love story between civil rights activist and artist Pat Musick and Apollo astronaut Jerry Carr, which highlights the simple connections in...
by Christina Dryden | Dec 12, 2022
Green Mountain Academy is excited to welcome back woodworking instructor Jon Mowry to lead this workshop series. This class will provide an introduction to woodworking using both machinery and hand tools. We will explore some of the properties of wood along with basic...
by Christina Dryden | Nov 22, 2022
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this needle felting workshop. Perk up your holiday décor with one of these adorable needle felted gnomes. In this beginner friendly workshop, you will learn to create a...
by Christina Dryden | Nov 22, 2022
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Jamie Franklin, curator at the Bennington Museum, to talk about the convergence of folk and modern art. This presentation, originally created in conjunction with the 2014 Bennington Museum exhibition Alice...
by Christina Dryden | Oct 27, 2022
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Dr. Steven Sinding to talk about abortion in post-Dobbs America. One big question posed by the Dobbs decision, now that the dust is beginning to settle a bit, is how the country will respond politically....
by Christina Dryden | Oct 26, 2022
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this craft workshop. Alcohol inks are so much fun to make art with. They are also great for both beginners and more advanced artists to use. We first place drops of ink,...
by Christina Dryden | Oct 8, 2022
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this ceramics workshop. Beginning students will learn the basic skills of hand-building, wheel-throwing techniques, surface design and glazing while more advanced students...
by Christina Dryden | Oct 7, 2022
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is excited to partner with the Manchester Historical Society to present this talk about the history of Burr and Burton Academy. This talk will be available both in person and online via Zoom. Join us for a look back...
by Christina Dryden | Oct 5, 2022
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes back arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this dot mandala on pottery workshop. In Buddhist culture, mandalas are said to transmit positive energy to the environment and to the people who view them. They are...
by Christina Dryden | Sep 28, 2022
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is honored to welcome Chairman and CEO of the Tällberg Foundation, Alan Stoga, to talk about the war in Ukraine. What is this war really about and what does it mean to us as Americans? Are we only dealing with...
by Christina Dryden | Sep 28, 2022
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Bill Freedman to talk about narcissism in America. Several studies and surveys indicate that America is an extraordinarily narcissistic culture, its youth becoming more and more so by the year. What does...
by Christina Dryden | Sep 28, 2022
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes author and fitness expert Martin Pazzani to talk about the numerous benefits of hiking. In fact, as he himself discovered, walking uphill – hiking – might just be the Fountain of Youth and the pathway to a...
by Christina Dryden | Sep 11, 2022
For one week this fall over 100,000 film-lovers will gather in over 350 cinemas, universities, and museums spanning six continents for one purpose: to view and vote on the ten short films (18 minutes and under) that are finalists in the annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film...
by Christina Dryden | Sep 9, 2022
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this ceramics workshop. Beginning students will learn the basic skills of hand-building, wheel-throwing techniques, surface design and glazing while more advanced students...
by Christina Dryden | Sep 7, 2022
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is happy to welcome back Albany Law School Professor Vincent Bonventre to review the blockbuster past term at the Supreme Court. This talk will examine the Court’s major constitutional decisions on abortion, guns,...
by Christina Dryden | Nov 8, 2021
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Kate Sinding Daly to talk about the role of environmental justice in addressing the climate crisis. Recent devastating events have made clear what experts have been warning for decades: climate change is...
by Christina Dryden | Nov 4, 2021
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes back arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this workshop. Come “paint” with wool and create a fabulous landscape painting with wool fibers! Using a photograph as a reference, you will learn to transfer the...
by Christina Dryden | Oct 28, 2021
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes economist Peter Radford to help us unravel cryptocurrency. Hardly a day goes by without some reference to cryptocurrency. Bitcoin prices fluctuate. Binance is under investigation. Blockchains proliferate....
by Christina Dryden | Oct 20, 2021
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Dr. Edward Cameron to talk about the current state of the climate. 2021 is a landmark year for efforts to address the climate crisis and build a low-carbon, resilient and inclusive economy. In August, the...
by Christina Dryden | Oct 15, 2021
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes back Dr. Phillips Stevens, Associate Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, to talk about the anthropology of race, racism and ethnic animosities. Racism is defined as prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism...
by Christina Dryden | Oct 12, 2021
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes back Dr. Bill Freedman for part two of his talk about our understanding of evil. The first talk on evil, mainly historical and theological. focused on the concept as understood by Judaism and Christianity...
by Christina Dryden | Oct 12, 2021
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Philip McKnight to talk about the Shakespeare that nobody knows. The first half of this talk will present the many facts and assumptions that are not known about William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon....
by Christina Dryden | Oct 12, 2021
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes back Dr. Phillips Stevens, Associate Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, to talk about cults, sects and “fringe groups” in American History. Exclusive, narrowly focused social groups with...
by Christina Dryden | Oct 7, 2021
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is excited to partner with the Manchester Historical Society to present this virtual walking tour of Main Street in Manchester. Along the west branch of the Battenkill River stretches Main Street in Manchester...
by Christina Dryden | Oct 7, 2021
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes arts educator Stacy Gates to lead this bead wrap bracelet workshop. Double the fun in this beading workshop by using the new Superduo 2-hole Czech glass beads to create a multiple wrap bracelet. Beautiful...
by Christina Dryden | Oct 4, 2021
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Dr. Phillips Stevens, Associate Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, to talk about the anthropology of conspiracy theories. “Conspiracy Theory” is a common phrase in the news these days; what does it mean?...
by Christina Dryden | Sep 24, 2021
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Dr. Michael A. Soupios, a professor of political science and philosophy, to talk about Jean Jacques Rousseau. The counter-cultural voice of the Enlightenment Era, Rousseau was the father of both the...
by Christina Dryden | Sep 22, 2021
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Dr. Rita Wright, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, to talk about archaeology in Afghanistan. The catalyst for this talk is a comment made by an acquaintance of the presenter who asked, “Why do you study...
by Christina Dryden | Sep 14, 2021
Film lovers will unite in over 500 venues worldwide to view and judge the work of the next generation of filmmakers from around the world when the 24th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival takes place for one week this fall. MANHATTAN SHORT is the only film festival...
by Christina Dryden | Sep 14, 2021
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Dr. Bill Freedman to talk about our understanding of evil. This first talk will focus on the early or pre-modern history of the concept of evil, which, in its ancient 2,000+ years, was almost always a...
by Christina Dryden | Sep 14, 2021
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is excited to partner with the Manchester Historical Society to present this virtual walking tour of Manchester Village. The 1961 Bicentennial marker at the foot of the Soldier’s Memorial in the Village reads: “This...