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Attorney Rachna Sizemore Heizer, JD, a disability advocate, college professor, and At-Large Member of the Fairfax County School Board, will discuss redefining normal and reframing disability as diversity. MWES members are invited to participate in the session, sponsored by the Northern VA Community College Lyceum Committee.
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ElderStudy Member Joe Alfred will discuss how Abraham Lincoln came to view his constitutional authority to wage war even while holding that the Southern States were in rebellion and no war existed. Joe will discuss the arguments of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, how he opposed Lincoln‘s views and how they finally agreed in the Prize Cases.
Sponsor: Joe Alfred.
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REGISTRATION REQUIRED BY NOON ON APRIL 3
You MUST use the special APRIL LLI/NoVA FORUM button to register for this session.
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David K. Owens, recognized as one of the foremost authorities on electric utility issues, will address the problems facing Puerto Rico as it rebuilds from Hurricane Maria in 2017. He also will discuss our national power grid and renewable energy, in general, across the country.
The Lifetime Learning Institute of Northern Virginia invites MWES members to participate in this online monthly meeting open to the public. We will meet socially at 9:30am; the forum begins at 10am. There is a short question and answer period after the speaker has finished.

An insightful examination of modern Native American culture. Often very funny, often very moving, sometimes tragic, and ultimately hopeful. Interrelated tales about an eclectic mix of a dozen or so diverse American Indians from all over who are headed to a “Pow Wow” at the Oakland, California Coliseum. (Contains strong language!)
Discussion led by Connie Smith.
Sponsor: Mary White
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MWES Members gather together for a Virtual Wine & Cheese Hour using ZOOM to discuss life in the time of COVID19.
Topic: Favorite April/Spring memory
Host: Keith Fennell
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David Vine, Professor of Anthropology at American University, will discuss why the United States has been fighting endless wars for nearly 20 years, since the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. David will show how this warfare is less exceptional than it may seem: the US has waged war or other combat in almost every year since independence. Drawing on historical research and first-hand ethnography in fourteen countries and territories, David will explain how the United States became, as the title of his new book says, a United States of War. David will discuss the catastrophic toll of US wars and offer proposals for how we can end the fighting. Sponsor: Joe Alfred
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The Membership Committee is responsible for outreach to our members. We conduct marketing efforts, maintain the website, oversee the member management system (including the roster), provide newsletters and other timely communications, offer Zoom training, coordinate the Book Group and plan social events. Members are always welcome to attend our meetings.
Sponsor: Donna Lewis
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Pearl Znilek Rakin will share the story of her parents who were from Kzaiaz-Welki in Poland. Teenage sweethearts before World War II broke out, they were taken from their families by the Nazis and placed in slave camps and then concentration camps. By sharing their personal stories of survival, Pearl is hoping to bring us to a better understanding of the Holocaust, during which six million Jews were killed, including most of her family.
Sponsor: Donna Lewis.
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Join your fellow ElderStudy members for an outside tour of FBG‘s new baseball stadium. Ticket Sales Account Executive Jimmy Burns will conduct a guided tour of the new facility. Lunch will be available for sale from a food truck or bring your own.
This tour will be repeated at 1 pm; please sign up for only 1 tour.
Rain date: April 23.
Tour is strictly limited to 10, members only.
Masks and social distancing will be required.
Sponsor: Donna Lewis

TOUR ADDED
NOTE UNUSUAL DAY and START TIME
Join your fellow ElderStudy members for an outside tour of FBG‘s new baseball stadium. Ticket Sales Account Executive Jimmy Burns will conduct a guided tour of the new facility. Lunch will be available for sale from a food truck or bring your own.
This tour is a repeat of the 11 am tour; please sign up for only 1 tour.
Rain date: April 23.
Tour is strictly limited to 10, members only.
Masks and social distancing will be required.
Sponsor: Donna Lewis

Gregg Stull, Chair and Professor of the UMW Department of Theatre and Dance, will lead this tribute to Hal Prince. No other person has made an impact on the American Theatre like Hal Prince--producer, director and trailblazer. With an extraordinary eye for detail, an uncompromising work ethic and tenacious quest for excellence, Prince transformed Broadway over a lifetime devoted to an art he adored.
Sponsor: Carolyn Eldred.
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Mary Washington ElderStudy is pleased to welcome New York Times best-selling author William Kent Krueger, joining us from Minnesota, to share his craft as an author and notable experiences throughout his career. Mr. Krueger is the author of the novel This Tender Land which is our Book Group selection for May.
Sponsor: Donna Lewis
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The First Ladies have long been a source of fascination to the American public, and Elizabeth Kortright Monroe is no exception. As an editor with the Papers of James Monroe, Heidi Stello examines the evidence to draw out a mosaic portrait of this remarkable First Lady. She is one of the most enigmatic presidential partners, in that her entire biography is rooted in her 6 surviving documents, and supplemented by only passing references in the correspondence of others. The documents that do survive portray a woman of fortitude, independence, and intelligence, whose life experiences took her from the New York City elite to the forefront of Virginia politics, the courts of Europe and on to the burgeoning capitol of the early Republic.
Sponsor: Michelle Esbenshade
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Porter Blakemore, UMW Prof of History & American Studies, will discuss the events leading to the end of WWII, from Normandy to Potsdam: Overlord, Operation “Valkyrie”, the Battle of the Bulge, Yalta and the coming of the Cold War.
Sponsor: Phil Hall

TOUR ADDED
NOTE UNUSUAL DAY and START TIME
Weather permitting, join your fellow ElderStudy members for an outside tour of FBG‘s new baseball stadium. Ticket Sales Account Executive Jimmy Burns will conduct a guided tour of the new facility. Lunch will be available for sale from a food truck or bring your own.
This tour will be repeated at 1 pm; please sign up for only 1 tour.
There will be no rain date.
Tour is strictly limited to 10, members only.
Masks and social distancing will be required.
Sponsor: Donna Lewis

TOUR ADDED
NOTE UNUSUAL DAY and START TIME
Weather permitting, join your fellow ElderStudy members for an outside tour of FBG‘s new baseball stadium. Ticket Sales Account Executive Jimmy Burns will conduct a guided tour of the new facility. Lunch will be available for sale from a food truck or bring your own.
This tour is a repeat of the 11 am tour; please sign up for only 1 tour.
There will be no rain date.
Tour is strictly limited to 10, members only.
Masks and social distancing will be required.
Sponsor: Donna Lewis

The Central Rappahannock Heritage Center is an all-volunteer non-profit archive whose mission is to preserve historically valuable material of the region and make it available to the public for research. Women and men of national prominence are relatively well known. We preserve the photographs, documents, and other records of the bedrock population upon which they stood.
Sponsor: Carol Walker
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Jason Robinson, UMW associate professor of digital art, will discuss the major stylistic shifts and most prominent practitioners of the first 100 years of avant-garde cinema.
Sponsor: Mary Ann Stana
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