Presentations by Trinity Authors
The books mentioned below can be found on Amazon or by contacting Charles
All meetings will be Sundays 9:30 in the Undercroft
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January 15 and 22
Neil Olsen, author of The Two Lives of Harry Croswell
On January 15, Neil will present a
30 min visual presentation on Croswell who was early Trinity’s longest priest library, followed by a discussion. On January 22, the presentation will continue.
Croswell spent the first half of his life as a
newspaper publisher dedicated to ensuring Freedom of the Press against
the federal government’s attempt to cancel his newspaper, and how
Alexander Hamilton rallied to his defense. Embittered by partisan
politics, he spent the second half of his life as Rector of Trinity Church, a friend of the African Americans and a promoter of Freedom of Religion and toleration.
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January 29
Founding Mothers by Kate Walton, author of Paradox, Lake of Memory
Kate will present on the work of Sally Roesch Wagner, founder and director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Center for Social Justice Dialogue, in upstate New York. She will begin by explaining how, after of the American Revolution, precocious Anglican/Episcopal and Protestant American women in upstate New York struggled to help women win equality with males. The movement was inspired by the example of their neighbors, the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) women, and their sister nations.
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February 5
Breaking Bread by bell hooks and Cornel West
By Charles Lemert, author of Americans Thinking America
For African American Month
Charles will present on two of the modern era’s most important
Black intellectual leaders, bell hooks and Cornell West. They have published Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectuals.
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February 12
Calvin Ramsey, author of Ruth and the Green Book
Calvin (if he is available) will discuss his now classic book
on which he presents all over the country
