Colonel W. Patrick Lang and Reuel Marc Gerecht - Click to enlarge
The International Spy Museum will present a discussion titled a on Wednesday, March 7. The panelists will be Reuel Marc Gerecht, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and Colonel W. Patrick Lang, former Defense Intelligence Officer for the Middle East, South Asia and Terrorism. They will “share their potentially conflicting ideas about how the U.S. can alter a decades-old paradigm.”
The National Archives will present a lecture titled Benjamin Franklin in the Records of the National Archiveson Wednesday, March 21. Exhibit Curator Michael Hussey will discuss the National Archives holdings of documents pertaining to Benjamin Franklin featured in the exhibit Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better Worldcurrently on display in the O'Brien Gallery. The letters, ledgers, Continental Congress proceedings, the 1783 Treaty of Paris, and the Constitution highlight Franklin’s work as printer, postmaster, diplomat, and statesman.
Exhibit Curator Michael Hussey - Click to enlarge
Eavan Boland - Courtesy of Irish Times - Click to enlarge
The O.B. Hardison Poetry Series at the Folger Shakespeare Library will present a reading by poet Eavan Boland in the Elizabethan Theatre on Monday, March 5. Ms. Boland’s work examines womanhood and history. She has published ten volumes of poetry and wrote the prose volume Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time. She is currently a Professor in Humanities at Stanford University, where she directs the creative writing program. The reading is inspired in part by the ongoing Folger exhibition titled Shakespeare’s Sisters, which is on view through May 14.
The PEN/Faulkner series at the Folger Shakespeare Library will present Tilar Mazzeo & Stacy Schiff in the Elizabethan Theatre on Friday, March 2. Ms. Mazzeo is The New York Times best-selling author of books on wine, travel, French culture, and the history of luxury. She is an associate professor of English at Colby College. The Folger Shakespeare Library is presenting a ten-week seminar titled Five Centuries Of Poetry By Women, through March 14. The seminar is for students in grades 10–12 in the DC metropolitan area. They meet on Wednesdays to read and discuss poems by British and American women poets from the mid-sixteenth century to the present. They also write poetry of their own, although no experience in writing poetry is required.
