Amos Fortune Forum

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The Amos Fortune Forum lectures are held in the Meetinghouse located in
Historic Jaffrey Center, 2 miles west of downtown Jaffrey, NH. (directions from MSN)

Fridays Promptly At 8:00 P.M.
There is no charge for admission.

Download the .pdf of the 2011 brochure here. (901 kb)


	July 6	DON BURNESS
		Taking Care of Mary-Lou
		Burness, poet and author of many books on African literature and culture who taught at Franklin Pierce University for 33 years, has been the caretaker for his wife Mary-Lou, disabled by serious illness, since 2007.

	July 13	NANCY GERTNER
		Fragile Gains: A Woman’s Improbable Journey from a Brooklyn Tenement, through Advocacy, to a Federal Judgeship
		Gertner, author of In Defense of Women, is presently on the Harvard Law School faculty and worked previously as a criminal defense lawyer, civil rights activist, and federal judge.

	July 20	BONNIE HARRIS
		What’s Parenting Got to Do with It?
		Harris, director of Connective Parenting and founder of The Parent Guidance Center, now the River Center, in Peterborough, is the author of two books, When Your Kids Push Your Buttons and Confident Parents, Remarkable Kids.

	July 27	MARGARET E. WARD and NELSON WARD de WITT
		Finding Family in the Aftermath of El Salvador's Civil War: Mysteries-Discoveries-Reflections
		Ward, Emerita Professor of German at Wellesley College, is the author of Missing Mila, Finding Family: An International Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War; de Witt, Ward’s son and a creative entrepreneur, is co-producer with John Younger of a documentary film, Identifying Nelson/Buscando a Roberto.

	August 3	ROBERT WEINBURG
		Cancer: Origins and Treatment of Cancer; Where Are We Headed?
		Weinberg, Professor of Biology at MIT and Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, has carried out research on the origins of cancer for more than three decades and has written several books on the subject.

	August 10	KATHERINE HOFFMAN
		Through the Lens: Alfred Stieglitz and His Fight for the Role of Photography as a Fine Art
		Hoffman, Professor and Chair of the Fine Arts Department at St. Anselm College in Manchester, NH, is the author of several books including Stieglitz: A Beginning Light and Alfred Stieglitz: A Legacy of Light.

	August 17	PHILIP GOUREVITCH
		Crime Scenes & Aftermaths: Reckoning with Survival after Genocide
		Gourevitch, long-time staff writer for The New Yorker, is the author of three books: The Ballad Of Abu Ghraib; A Cold Case; and We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families - Stories from Rwanda.

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