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A Party for Edgar Allan Poe (He’s 200, Never More)
Monday, Jan. 12 at 6:45 pm

Edgar Allan Poe, the author of such enduring classics as “The Purloined Letter,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” is often referred to as America’s Shakespeare. Actor Scott Sedar gives a dramatic reading of some of Poe’s most powerful works.

Temple Grandin on Creating the Best Life for Animals
Wednesday, Jan. 14 at 6:45 pm

Temple Grandin, renowned animal behaviorist, applies her own lifelong experience with autism and presents research in animal science.

President-Elect Abraham Lincoln: Determination and Leadership
Wednesday, Jan. 28 at 6:45 pm

Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer recasts Lincoln during the great secession winter of 1861, from an isolated prairie politician yet to demonstrate his greatness to a skillful shaper of men and opinion and an immovable friend of freedom at a decisive moment.