For Marge Ghilarducci cooking is an adventure . “New recipes to me are like reading new books or writing poetry are to others,” she says. Marge and co-facilitator Marguerite Sheahan bring this spirit of adventure each week to the very popular Second Half study group, “Travel Europe One Meal at a Time.” Marge started the […]
This is NOT an Art Class
This is a Second Half art appreciation study group facilitated by Ned Daniels. But honestly, if you walked in on it, you would think you were in an art class. When I think “art appreciation,” I think of slide shows, lectures, and museum visits – but Ned wants to get his students involved so they […]
Website Remodeling
UPDATED 4/1/2015: You may have noticed a few changes to the top menu and within a few of the key web pages recently. We started to tidy up a bit – a sort of virtual “Spring cleaning” – but it is going a bit beyond that now. Of course we hope you like the new […]
May 14 Lecture – “The Risk of Reading”
Free Lecture, “The Risk of Reading: How literature helps us to understand ourselves and the world, especially in this world of digital overload.” – Thursday, May 14, 2015 2:00 – 3:30 pm, Southworth Library, Dartmouth. UMass Dartmouth English Professor Robert Waxler has recently published a book on the subject: “The Risk of Reading — How […]