Almost 90% of the world's fish species have been over-exploited, many--including Atlantic cod--to the point of collapse of the entire fishery. There are population models that predict a total collapse of global fisheries by 2050. The United States has been the world leader in establishing Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) that prohibit commercial fishing to let fish stocks rebound to healthy and sustainable levels. While not the sole solution to overfishing, MPAs have been shown to be an effective measure toward alleviating the crisis.

This session will explore the lives of some of the people enslaved by Mary Ann Lamar, her brother John Basil Lamar, and her husband Howell Cobb. The Cobb-Lamars built a political empire on land and cotton, yet it all hinged on the forced labor of others. After mapping the underlying structures that supported the wealth and power of the Cobb-Lamar family, the presenters will then explore how those same pathways were used by the enslaved to function within the existing system, confront the limitations placed on them, challenge what they felt were its worst injustices, and try to shape the boundaries of their own lives.

Newspapers are key to understanding the time and place an ancestor lived since they provide a contemporary record. Every major genealogical database contains newspaper information and libraries provide access to current and historical newspapers online. Since 1690 (the first record of a newspaper published in the United States), news, human interest stories, obituaries, legal notices, advertisements, society columns, and other content have provided a diary of a community. This is a three-hour-long class (1.5 hours lecture, then break, and last hour computer exercises). A detailed handout and homework will need to be completed before class.

Planned gifts, gifts commonly donated through a will or trust, are designed to help you meet your financial and charitable goals while supporting your favorite nonprofits and institutions in the long term. There are also ways to enable giving that allow you to direct income where it means the most and will be most advantageous to you in your present situation. Join us to explore some of the options available to you, and see how even a small planned gift can help OLLI@UGA plan for the future and continue to build our lifelong learning community.

In 1954 the Supreme Court ruled that state laws establishing segregated schools are unconstitutional. Known as a seminal Supreme Court case and civil rights victory, Brown v. Board of Education resulted from many legal battles that predicated its existence. Dr. Martinez-Cola writes about the many important cases that led to the culmination of Brown. She reveals that the road to Brown is lined with "bricks" representing at least one hundred other families who legally challenged segregated schooling in state and federal courts across the country, eleven of which involved Chinese Americans, Native Americans, and Mexican Americans.

This is a three-class series. Each class will highlight a different songwriter from the Great American Songbook. Class 1: Johnny Mercer. Class 2: Jerome Kern. Class 3: Irving Berlin.

This is a three-class series. Each class will highlight a different songwriter from the Great American Songbook. Class 1: Johnny Mercer. Class 2: Jerome Kern. Class 3: Irving Berlin.

You have clean water delivered to you at the snap of your fingers, always there when you need it. See the steps taken to make this special delivery happen in Athens! You'll see first-hand how water from the North Oconee River, Middle Oconee River, and Bear Creek Reservoir is cleaned at the J.G. Beacham Drinking Water Treatment Plant and delivered through a network of pipes to all Athenians.

A CURTAIN OF GREEN is Eudora Welty's first short story collection, and it contains many of her most famous pieces, such as "A Worn Path," "Why I Live at the P.O.", and "Petrified Man." Some pieces are wildly comic, while others present tragedies. Welty considers a wide range of Southerners--both blacks and whites, men and women of all ages--and doesn't hesitate to present disturbing images, such as a captive black man forced to dress as a woman and bite off chicken heads, or a tranquil gardener who contemplates killing her helper. The brilliant writing carries all before it.

Explore the complex relationship between poetry and place in a course with Athens's first poet laureate, Jeff Fallis. We will read and discuss poems that are closely related to particular locations and landscapes (including Athens!), and we will write poems of our own that investigate our own personal connections to the places that made us. We will try to figure out if Wendell Berry's adage that "If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are" is actually true. No previous experience with poetry is necessary!