Human Ties
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Epidemics & the Humanities

Special program note: Please join us this Friday at 4 pm when Dr. Michael William Wyatt (Dartmouth) will discuss one of the most remarkable first-hand accounts of the Black Death in his talk: “From Black Death to New World: Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron ”. This will be a live presentation via Zoom and it’s free! Register here. RSVP
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Historian Dr. Keisha Blain (University of Pittsburg) describes the international significance of the career and legacy of Congressman John Lewis in an article for Time Magazine . Blain notes that “by linking national concerns to global ones, Lewis compelled others to see that the problems of racism and white supremacy were not contained within U.S. borders.”
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Last chance to watch a video of the program “ Race, Disease, and Death in 1793 and 2019: A Shocking Parallel” . In this talk, Dr. Kabria Baumgartner asks what have we learned about racism, disease, and the civic health of our republic in the last 226 years or so?
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Listen to this recent episode of the Portable Humanist podcast from our friends at Vermont Humanities . Ryan Kriger, author of  How to Make Friends as an Adult , describes the approach he used to develop a group of friends after moving to Montpelier from New York City.
ANTHONY POORE, Executive Director

This is H.E.R., (Gabriella Wilson) a Grammy award winning singer/songwriter performing two songs at this year’s Roots Family Picnic . She begins with the song “I can’t breathe” and concludes with “Fate”. Ms. Wilson rose to fame in 2009 on Radio Disney’s Next Big Thing and shortly thereafter, signed a deal with RCA Records at 14 years of age.  WATCH
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