Summer Series calendar
Please join us for these great events!
Oct. 23 Bus Trip to Cherokee
On October 23, twenty-five “friends” headed out for a day of Cherokee culture. We met Lianna Costantino, our guide for the day, in Sylva. Our first stop was the Judaculla Rock in Jackson County. This ancient soapstone rock is covered with drawings thought to predate modern Cherokee culture. While Lianna told us the story behind the legend of Juthcullah we all pondered what the drawings actually mean. Some thought they were a recording of history while a few thought the rock could be a map. Our next stop was the pavilion at Mark Watson park where we enjoyed a deeeelishous picnic lunch prepared by Cathy Nell and Kathy Figiel. Everything was prepared and packaged with love! On our short drive to the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, Lianna told us stories of the Cherokee and explained their language. In the museum she…
2018 Summer Series review
By all accounts, the 2018 Summer Series of programs was a success. The series of four lectures focused on an environmental theme. Beginning with the original environmentalists of our area, the Cherokee, we traveled through the the environmental movement of the mid-twentieth century and into the the future as Dr. Suresh Muthukrishnan, Ph.D explained how graphic mapping of global data can show us things we might not have noticed. Lianna Elizabeta Costantino sat in front of a campfire and told us Cherokee stories that gave us rich insight into their culture and relationship to mother earth. The following week, Caroline McIntyre brought Rachel Carson to life in dramatic fashion as she explained the social climate of the 60’s and her battle against chemical pollution. A simple but evocative interior set on the stage gave a warm, encompassing feeling to the evening. Jim Stokely, whose mother Wilma Dyckeman, is credited with…
Summer Series
The 2018 Summer Series is less than a week away and bound to provide stimulating discussion. Don’t miss any of it! 7:00pm, August 17 One With the Earth: Cherokee and the Environment Before Europeans came to this continent indigenous peoples lived off the land. The Cherokee of the Appalachians were the original environmentalists. They lived with the land. Join Lianna Elizabeta Costantino as she tells us about Cherokee ideas regarding health, well-being and healing, medicine and forestry. 7:00pm, August 23 Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring In the summer of 1962, Silent Spring was published and raised America’s awareness to the future of the planet and all life on Earth. She called for humans to act responsibly as stewards of the living earth. Her book became the drumbeat for a generation of environmentalists. Step into the past as Caroline McIntyre recreates Carson and discusses the monumental work. 7:00pm, August 30 Wilma Dykeman,…