Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Dr. Valerie Rapson to talk about The Hubble Space Telescope, NASA’s first Great Observatory, which launched in April of 1990 and has been going strong ever since. Astronomers from across the globe have utilized Hubble to make discoveries related to stars, galaxies, exoplanets, and the early Universe. […]
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) in partnership with the Northshire Bookstore are proud to present "Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home" – a conversation between author Alexander Wolff and Steven Sinding. Alexander Wolff’s grandfather, the renowned book publisher Kurt Wolff, fled the Nazis. Alex’s father Niko, left behind, fought […]
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Anne Corso, Executive Director at Southern Vermont Arts Center, to talk about the art of glass. Inspired by this summer's exhibition 2021˚ F: 10th Anniversary of the Vermont Glass Guild at SVAC, Corso will discuss the history and future of glasswork. For almost 4,000 years glass has been made […]
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Dr. Catherine Bonventre to talk about wrongful convictions and their consequences. Since 1989, when postconviction forensic DNA testing was first used to clear the innocent of crimes they did not commit, more than 2,700 people have been exonerated in the United States. A multitude of factors contribute […]
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes back political affairs specialist Derek Boothby to talk about the politics of nuclear weapons. Whether we think about nuclear weapons or not, since the dawn of the nuclear weapon age in 1945 we have lived, and continue to live, under the nuclear shadow. This talk will focus […]
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 Manchester railroads. Local historian G. Murray Campbell wrote in 1961: “There was a time when echoes of the whistles of three separate railroads could be heard in the daily life […]
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Dr. Sanjay Correa to talk about the current state of commercial aviation. After decades of strong growth, the commercial aviation sector was dealt two severe blows: the grounding of the Boeing 737MAX and a worldwide reduction in passenger traffic caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We will discuss […]
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is happy to welcome back writer and photographer Christopher Dant to talk about Ansel Easton Adams. Ansel Adams was quite literally the most influential and beloved photographer and conservationist of the 20th century, becoming a national institution. The popularity of his work has continued to increase well after […]
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is excited to welcome back Dr. John Delano to talk about 'Oumuamua. In 2017 our solar system was briefly visited by an object from interstellar space. Observatories around the Earth studied it intensely for the few days it remained detectable by modern instruments. The concept of space archaeology […]
