Because of the winter storm, the Sunday events for our BLAST! regional gathering will be held remotely Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82538147795?pwd=6UsKSI5lhbrJ0vQbKHuDoVlsqn7QXn.1 Meeting ID: 825 3814 7795 Passcode: 426657 --- One … Continue reading BLAST! Sunday events
Nelle Harper Lee (whose pen name was Harper Lee) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1962 for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel was the basis for the movie of the same name. The movie was nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning three: Best Actor (Gregory Peck), Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Art Direction. … Continue reading Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman
Go Tell It on the Mountain (published 1953) is a semiautobiographical novel by James Baldwin. The novel is set in Harlem, a neighborhood in New York City that was home … Continue reading James Baldwin: Go Tell It on the Mountain
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Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland in 1818. He had no birth certificate and thus never knew his precise age. However, he chose February 14 as his official birthday because his mother regarded him as her "little Valentine." While he was still a boy, a kindly woman taught him to read, which was … Continue reading Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
Please arrive 10 minutes early to allow for registration. Please bring a printed copy of your voucher and your picture ID to the session. If you are under the age … Continue reading Admissions Testing
Time: 1:00 pm Location: Power Up Arena in the Westfield Garden State Plaza Mall 1 Westfield Garden State Plaza Blvd. Paramus, NJ 07652 (Near Neiman Marcus on 2nd floor) Price: $20. Join us for ice cream afterwards at the food court! There will be a Mensa background-checked parent attending. RSVP Matthew Maniscalco … Continue reading Teen Mensan Virtual Reality & Meetup
In our extended celebration of St. Valentine's Day, let's talk about Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet! This play has been performed countless times and has been reinterpreted in opera and ballet. Here's the text, with side-by-side translation from Elizabethan to today's English: Romeo and Juliet Translation | Shakescleare, by LitCharts Here's a stage performance: Romeo and … Continue reading Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
Adolf Hitler once referred to Munich as the "capital of the Nazi movement," a title he officially conferred on the city in 1935. Dr. Shelly Cline, Historian and Director of … Continue reading Theodore Talk: Munich and the Rise of the Nazi Party
