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What's NEW FROM CHESAPEAKE FORUM?

Instructor Bruce Purdy in the Talbot Spy

Talbot Spy interview about the upcoming David Blight program

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Annual Fund Raising Appeal

 StarDem coverage of Wayne Bell's birding leadership in Talbot County

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Chesapeake Forum on RabBBi's Roundtable

Many thanks to Rabbi Peter Hyman and our intrepid Chesapeake Forum Board Member for promoting the upcoming David Blight program on Frederick Douglass... and Lifelong Learning.  Rabbi's Roundtable is a regular production brought to the mid-shore by MCTV (Mid-Shore Public Television)

Talbot Spy Interview with Forum Board Member, John Miller

John Miller talks with the Talbot Spy about the upcoming Visiting Professor Lecture, "Frederick Douglass in His Time and Ours" with Professor David Blight from Yale.  


Blight is a highly regarded expert on Frederick Douglass' life and times and was happy to accept the Chesapeake Forum's invitation to kick off our 2021 Semester with a special presentation in honor of our Founder, John Ford.

Learn to ZOOM

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(Don't forget, you can enlarge the video screens for the Zoom tutorials by clicking on the BOX in the right hand corner to enlarge!)


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Our Annual funding appeal - can you help meet our goal?

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Your contribution allows us to continue offering courses, discussions, presentations, field trips, and events that encompass diverse topics.

 

The Chesapeake Forum Fund is a component fund of the Mid-Shore Community Foundation, a public 501(c)(3) charity.  Contributions to the Fund support the lifelong learning program and are fully tax-deductible as allowable by law. 


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Wayne Bell in the Star Democrat

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Webinars to watch at your convenience

230 Years of Presidential Elections

230 Years of Presidential Elections

230 Years of Presidential Elections

  230 Years of Presidential Elections: Washington to Trump, 1788-2018

with Steve Goldman

Join Dr. Stephen A. Goldman on a visual tour of the entire scope of Presidential elections in the United States, from its founding in 1788 to the present day. 

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500 Years of Fake News

230 Years of Presidential Elections

230 Years of Presidential Elections

Five Hundred Years of Fake News: From False Facts and Fictitious Fallacies to Forgotten Foibles

with Steve Goldman

"Fake News" is a phrase that has come to be used frequently over the past 3 years. Is this a new phenomenon, or has it been around for a long while? 

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The Many Faces of Fascism

230 Years of Presidential Elections

The Many Faces of Fascism

  The Many Faces of Fascism

with Ray Vergne

Although it affected, influenced, and dominated the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the XX Century, Fascism is difficult to define accurately and succinctly.     

The goal of this exercise is to better understand the phenomenon of Fascism, which so painfully scarred the history of the XX Century.

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Other Courses to catch up on

Birds and Birding

Talbot County, the Good and Bad

Talbot County, the Good and Bad

 Birds and Birding in our Eastern Shore Backyard

with Wayne Bell, PhD

This course is offered as a collaboration between Chesapeake Forum and the Pickering Creek Audubon Center.

This fall we will focus on common and not-so-common songbirds that grace our Eastern Shore backyards and parks. 

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Talbot County, the Good and Bad

Talbot County, the Good and Bad

Talbot County, the Good and Bad

Conversation:  What's Good and Bad about Talbot County?

with Bruce Jones

See how Talbot County compares with other Maryland counties in education, rates of crime, housing availability, transportation , etc.

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Macbeth: The Scottish Play

Talbot County, the Good and Bad

Macbeth: The Scottish Play

Macbeth: The Scottish Play

with John Miller, Ph.D and Suzanne Sanders

Theatrical tradition would urge us to call Macbeth “The Scottish Play,” so that disaster doesn't befall us. But this bad luck tradition only comes into play (no pun intended) when the title is mentioned inside the theater where the performance is to be presented. 

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Steve Goldman, "the newspaper guy"

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Have you gone to our facebook page yet?

Our New Facebook Page

Check us out on Facebook ( Chesapeake Forum An Academy for Lifelong Learning ) - and don't forget to LIKE us so that you get notified of new posts!


Every time you click an article on our Facebook page it makes a difference.  The post going to a downloadable copy of this semester's mailer has reached 200 people with 26 engagements!  We need to get the word out throughout the community that even in the COVID crisis, the Chesapeake Forum has managed to pivot to Online classes with recordings that make it possible for many in our community to enjoy learning from some of our area's experts.  




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Talbot Spy Coverage of our Fall Semester

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AIRSHIP 103, A RIDE THRU THE ADVENTURES OF AN AIRSHIP PILOT

BIRDS AND BIRDING IN OUR EASTERN SHORE BACKYARD


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