NANTUCKET, MA. The Nantucket Historical Association’s (NHA) brown bag lunch and lecture series, Food for Thought, will resume on Thursday, February 3, in the Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street, at noon. Free admission; bring your lunch.
During 2011, the series will celebrate the ingenuity and resourcefulness of Nantucketers from all walks of life with our theme, “Nantucket’s Talent”; the February 3 Brown Bag will feature Dr. Charles Clark from the Nantucket Lighthouse School and Dave Provost from the Nantucket New School, who will be discussing “Island Schools.”
Since 2004, Provost has served as head of the Nantucket New School, which was founded in 1985 and currently serves one hundred fifty-five students in preschool through grade eight.
Provost, who is also a professional singer/songwriter, has been involved in the education field since 1993 and moved to Nantucket from Santa Barbara, CA, where he was the head of the upper school at Crane Country Day School; he also a cofounder of the National Conference of Small Schools and has served on several independent school and nonprofit boards.
Clark was hired last year as Head of School at the Nantucket Lighthouse School, which was founded in 1999 as an independent day school serving children preschool through sixth grade.
Clark has served five different types of schools in his forty-year independent-school career; he completed his doctoral work at the University of Delaware, earning his Ed. D degree in Educational Leadership. Recently, Clark founded “Independent School Leadership” and writes a monthly newsletter, Head to Head, primarily serving heads of schools.
The Thursday, February 10, Food for Thought will feature the NHA’s own Mark Avery and Kathrina Pearl, who will discuss “The Greater Light Garden.” Each talk begins at noon; bring your brown-bag lunch to the Whaling Museum. Talks are free to the public and are given by notable Nantucketers on a range of fascinating topics. The Food for Thought programs are supported by a grant from the M. S. Worthington Foundation.
For additional information about the 2011 Food for Thought series, please call 508-228-1894, ext. 0, or visit the website calendar of events to view the schedule.
