Food for Thought 2009-2010
Brown-Bag Lunch & Lecture Series

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The mission of the Nantucket Historical Association is to infuse a greater appreciation and respect for the important historical role that Nantucket has played in national and world heritage. The NHA also aspires to reach out and serve diverse audiences as a year-round organization. Toward this end, one of the programs we are offering is a brown-bag lunch and lecture series, on Thursdays from October through April. We call it Food for Thought.

Talks are free to the public and are given by notable Nantucketers and other guest speakers on a range of fascinating topics. Bring your brown-bag lunch to the Whaling Museum at noon. The Food for Thought programs are supported by a grant from the M. S. Worthington Foundation.

Here’s the menu.

Annual Theme: Travel

October 2009 Theme: Using and Protecting the Earth

	October 1	Kathrina Pearl, “Around the World in 80 Ways: Nantucket’s Botanical Washashores”
	October 8	“Walter Beinecke Jr. Gam: Remembering an Island Legacy” Led by the Beinecke sisters
	October 15	Dr. Sarah Oktay, “The Marine Mammal Stranding Team”
	October 22	John Bartlett, “Windpower at Bartlett’s Farm”
	October 29	David Berry, “Bee Keeping on Nantucket: The Nantucket Honey Bee Company”

November 2009 Theme: Nantucket Culture

	November 5	Charles Gifford, “The Nantucket Landfill”
	November 12	Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, “Nantucket Theatre”
	November 19	Bill Tramposch, Mark Avery, Kim McCray, “Greater Light, What’s Next?”

December 2009 Theme: Far Away Places

	December 10	Dr. John O’Neill, “Peace Corps Training: The Early Years”
	December 17	Robert Hellman, “Sperm Whaling and the Tools of the Trade”

February 2010 Theme: Transportation (Planes, Trains, and Whaleships)

	February 4	Matthew Stackpole, “The Charles W. Morgan”
	February 11	Dr. Josef Fischer, “The Economics of Whaling”
	February 18	Dave Frary, “Building the Nantucket Railroad Display”
	February 25	Alfred Peterson, “Nantucket Memorial Airport”

March 2010 Theme: Travel Memories

	March 4	Tony Dumitru and Ben Simons, “Whalers’ Souvenirs”
	March 11	Les Ottinger, “In Their Words: Highlights from the Whaling Log”
	March 18	Lawrence Dober, “Come On from Off: Picture Postcards”
	March 25	Cecil Barron Jenson, “Nantucket Art and Artists”

April 2010 Theme: Wanderings

	April 1	"Wander-lust: Explorations from Around the Globe" by Marjan Shirzad
	April 8	Corey Sandler, “The Cape Cod Canal The Rothschilds, the New York City Subway, and the Path Between the Bays"
	April 15	Gam, “The Transition from Visitor to Resident”
	April 22	Bill Tramposch and Ben Simons, “The Gift of the Whale: Traditional Whaling off the North Slope of Alaska”
	April 29	Beverly Hall, “Forty Years of Portraits”
May 2010
	May 6	Garth Grimmer and Lauri Robertson, “Fine Art Photography Forum”
	May 13	Mark Avery, “Nantucket’s Historic Hotels”