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November 1, 2011

November Food For Thought Lunch Series Line Up

The Nantucket Historical Association is pleased to announce the upcoming slate of speakers for the Food For Thought Lecture series:

• Thursday, November 3: Little Gray Island Gam, featuring five contributors to the newly-released Little Gray Island: Life Stories From Nantucket.


• Thursday, November 10: MC Lars and “Literature and Hip-Hop.” Stanford University-educated musical artist MC Lars will discuss how classical literature can be better understood through modern hip-hop musical interpretations.


• Thursday, November 17: Augusto Ramos and Rob Benchley discuss the rebuilding of Great Point Lighthouse, twenty-five years after the island’s northernmost beacon collapsed during a March nor’easter.


• Thursday, November 24: No Food For Thought lecture in observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday.

Food For Thought is the NHA’s free weekly brown-bag lunch lecture series. From noon – 1 PM, attendees are invited to listen to notable Nantucketers discuss their unique visions of Nantucket, past, present, and future.

Food For Thought is made possible by a generous grant from the M.S. Worthington Foundation. For more information, please go to www.nha.org, or call 508-228-1894, ext. 0.