Salisbury Forum
Government Regulation: Really? with Carol Browner
Tuesday, March 28 at 7pm via Zoom
Vivian Garfein, member of the Salisbury Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission, and former Central Director of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection will interview Carol Browner.
Carol Browner has had a lifelong commitment to securing environmental and public health protections, working in the private sector and serving two presidents, a governor and two senators.
As Director of President Obama’s White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy, Browner oversaw the coordination of environmental, energy, climate, transport, and related policy across the U.S. federal government. From 1993 through 2001, Ms. Browner served as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President Clinton, securing clean air and safe drinking water protections. She also served as Secretary of Environmental Regulation in Florida launching a large ecological restoration of the Everglades. Browner was able to secure science-based public protections while allowing private business flexibility to achieve high standards.
Presently Browner is a Senior Counsel at the law firm of Covington and Burlington LLP helping clients navigate climate change policy. She also serves on the board of Bunge Limited, a multinational agribusiness corporation, and is Board Chair of the League of Conservation Voters. Ms. Browner previously served as Senior Counselor at the Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategic advisory firm, and was a founding principal of The Albright Group. She splits her time between the Green Mountains of Vermont and Washington DC.
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A Literary Seminar by Mark Scarbrough
Scoville Memorial Library
In person in the Wardell Community Room and on Zoom*
Last class of the series: Tuesday, March 22, 2023, 10:30 a.m. to about 12:30, both in person and via Zoom
Funded by the Friends of the Scoville Memorial Library
I Think, Therefore I Talk: Stein, Freud, Proust, And Modern Identity
Who am I? It’s a psychological question, sure. But also a historical question. And a political, cultural one. Today in European and North American society, we answer that question based on the work of writers and thinkers who toiled in the looming wreckage of the nineteenth century, as the great ideals came apart and they struggled to make meaning in an increasingly fragmented world. In this literary seminar, we’ll read three “personal” narratives—or attempts to come at what a person is—by three of the formative thinkers of the beginnings of our world: Gertrude Stein, Sigmund Freud, and Marcel Proust.
The class is free and open on Zoom. Registration is required for all who are attending by Zoom. Register here to receive your unique link if you have not done so already. (This personal Zoom registration is needed for this large hybrid class even if you already signed up on Google forms.) Or you may always go to the events section of the Scoville website. When you find the Scarbrough event listed, look for the “registration” button and sign in. You will be sent one unique link; please hold on to it as it will work for all classes. The Library won't have a copy of your personal link. If needed, you may register again the same way as above to get a new unique link.
Readings have been from Stein's "Three Lives" (1909), Proust's "Swann's Way" (1913), and Freud's "A Case of Hysteria: Dora" (1905).
Above: Portrait of Gertrude Stein by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1913, Collection of George Eastman House.
A Poetry Reading by Sally Van Doren and Emma Wynn
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 5:30 p.m.
Scoville Memorial Library
Reading Room
At this event, Sally Van Doren will read from her fourth book of poems, "Sibilance" (Louisiana State University Press, 2023).
Emma Wynn will read from their first full-length collection, "The World is Our Anchor" (FutureCycle Press, 2023).
Van Doren, a Cornwall-based poet and artist, explores the fertile cognitive territory between image and language. Her first book of poems received the 2007 Walt Whitman Award. A number of Van Doren's poems are available online. Her artworks draw upon a personal iconography of calligraphic gestures, handprints, and letters. Van Doren’s exhibition at the Furnace Art on Paper Archive in Falls Village is on view through Saturday, April 15.
Emma Wynn received their M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School and teaches Philosophy, Psychology, and LGBTQ+ U.S. History at the Hotchkiss School. They have been published in multiple magazines and journals and nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice. "The World is Our Anchor" is a collection of unsparing poems on the legacies of human brutality.
Save the date! Registration and event link to come.
Above: Artwork by Sally Van Doren: Volta 5, 2023
India ink on canvas 30 x 24 "
Below: Emma Wynn, The World is Our Anchor.
The Friends of the Scoville Library are currently accepting donations of books for their ongoing book sales
All proceeds benefit the library's programs. Donated books should be:
-clean and in good condition so that they will be appealing to other readers
-relatively dust free, not discolored or written in
-structurally sound with intact binding and pages which are not ripped
Please no textbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries or travel guides older than four years. Donations can be dropped off on Mondays between 10-Noon, or contact the Friends to make other arrangements.
Meditation and Gentle Movement
with Kathy Voldstad
Gentle Movement, Tuesdays, 8:30 a.m.
Meditation, Tuesday, Thursdays, Sundays 9:00 a.m.
Zoom link — password: "peace"
Bridge with John Dippel at SML
Classes meet on Wednesdays, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Local resident John Dippel is offering an ongoing, intermediate bridge course. This course, currently full, will run through the fall, at which time there may be some places for new students at a beginner or intermediate level. To inquire, write jvdippel@gmail.com. Please include your phone and email address, as well as the level of bridge you’re interested in. Couples and singles are both welcome. Dippel, a historian and author, returned to playing bridge when he moved to Salisbury 10 years ago and took a similar course. He has been playing regularly ever since.
