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Dr. Harvey will describe his early teenage experiences of living in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and his childhood years in the Bukovina region of Romania, once the easternmost area of the Austrian monarchy. He will also discuss his 3 periods as a refugee, culminating in his leaving Europe for the U.S. under the auspices of the Displaced Persons Program.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 40
Dates: 10/9/2025 - 10/9/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: Th
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Instructor: Curt Harvey
Building: River's Crossing
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Join us at Historic Athens' headquarters in the Old Fire Hall No. 2 for an inside look at how this local nonprofit works to celebrate and conserve Athens' unique heritage. This session will explore Historic Athens' broad impact -from preserving historic buildings and protecting cultural landmarks to engaging the public through events, education, and advocacy. Attendees will learn about programs like Hands On Historic Athens, Equitable Home Preservation, monthly History Hours, Porchfest, youth development efforts, and more. The class will also include a guided tour of the Fire Hall, offering a tangible connection to the organization's mission and history.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 40
Dates: 8/21/2025 - 8/21/2025
Times: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: Th
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Instructor: Denise Sunta
Building: Off Site
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Jewish pharmacist Joseph Jacobs is familiar to Georgians as the owner of the drugstore at which Coca-Cola was invented. He is also the founder of the Burns Club of Atlanta. A major collector of Burnsiana (he had a library of 794 volumes of Burns material), Jacobs began the club in 1896 - and it still meets today in a replica of Burns's birthplace in Atlanta (a building Jacobs funded in 1911). This class will provide some of the history of the club and ponder the significance of Robert Burns not only to Jacobs but also to Atlanta and the South in general.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 40
Dates: 12/8/2025 - 12/8/2025
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: M
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Instructor: Elizabeth Kraft
Building: River's Crossing
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Jewish pharmacist Joseph Jacobs is familiar to Georgians as the owner of the drugstore at which Coca-Cola was invented. He is also the founder of the Burns Club of Atlanta. A major collector of Burnsiana (he had a library of 794 volumes of Burns material), Jacobs began the club in 1896 - and it still meets today in a replica of Burns's birthplace in Atlanta (a building Jacobs funded in 1911). This class will provide some of the history of the club and ponder the significance of Robert Burns not only to Jacobs but also to Atlanta and the South in general.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 100
Dates: 12/8/2025 - 12/8/2025
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: M
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Instructor: Elizabeth Kraft
Building: Online via Zoom
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James II of England was overthrown in the "Glorious Revolution" of 1689. Attempts to bring back the Stuarts failed. A third began on August 19, 1745, when Charles Edward Stuart, the grandson of James II, landed at Glenfinnan on the Scottish west coast to lead the Jacobites south to retake the British throne. This rebellion ended tragically at Culloden, near Inverness, in April, 1746. The "Highland Culture" was destroyed and Scotland was never the same afterward. We will discuss all of this and speculate on how UK history, and ours, would have been changed drastically had Bonnie Charlie been successful.
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Fee: $40.00
Capacity Remaining: 96
Dates: 8/19/2025 - 8/19/2025
Times: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: Tu
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Instructor: Ian Hardin
Building: Trumps Catering
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The Enlightenment and Romanticism are the yin and yang of modern intellectual and cultural history. For more than two centuries, these two movements, and especially the “conversation” between them, has defined how we think about history, art, politics... and ourselves. Attendees will explore the origins and core ideas of the Enlightenment and how its very success gave rise to Romanticism. Initially a friendly correction of the Enlightenment’s supposed excesses, the Romantic movement became a passionate and hostile rival. The ongoing “conversation” between these complementary opposites remains an important, if often unnoticed, theme in both our public and private lives.
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Fee: $23.00
Capacity Remaining: 35
Dates: 9/15/2025 - 9/17/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sessions: 2
Days: M W
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Instructor: Tom Keene
Building: River's Crossing
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The Oglethorpe Echo in Lexington, Georgia, was founded in 1874. In 2021, the county's oldest business was destined to close on October 1. Veteran newspaper publisher Dink NeSmith stepped in and created a nonprofit to save the 147-year-old newspaper. Forming a partnership with UGA's Grady College of Journalism, the weekly newspaper is now thriving. More than 200 Grady students have put "gold stars" on their diplomas by working for The Echo. Readership has doubled, advertising has tripled, and a sizeable rainy-day fund continues to grow. The Echo has received national recognition including a feature in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 40
Dates: 9/11/2025 - 9/11/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: Th
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Instructor: Dink Nesmith
Building: River's Crossing
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This class concerns an historically-based family biography. Son of Polish immigrants, a 21-year old Army Air Force Staff Sargent had a life-long struggle with trauma that started when his B-17 aircraft was shot down by a German fighter over Berlin in 1944. He was on his 18th mission. Presenter Perkins’ book details her father’s survival as a POW for 14 months in three German concentration camps and the 83-day ‘Long March’ across Poland and Germany in the harsh winter of 1945. The severe and persistent war traumas her father endured were horrific, and his journey was difficult and life changing.
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Fee: $32.00
Capacity Remaining: 40
Dates: 8/29/2025 - 9/12/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 3
Days: F
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Instructor: Jan Perkins
Building: River's Crossing
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While enslaved in Columbus, Georgia, Horace King and his enslaver were prominent covered-bridge builders in the South. Freed before the Civil War, King and his sons formed a contracting business that worked to build a better Georgia. They built countless covered bridges across the state (including one in Athens), and several can still be visited today.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 40
Dates: 10/31/2025 - 10/31/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: F
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Instructor: Andrew Bramlett
Building: River's Crossing
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While enslaved in Columbus, Georgia, Horace King and his enslaver were prominent covered-bridge builders in the South. Freed before the Civil War, King and his sons formed a contracting business that worked to build a better Georgia. They built countless covered bridges across the state (including one in Athens), and several can still be visited today.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 100
Dates: 10/31/2025 - 10/31/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: F
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Instructor: Andrew Bramlett
Building: Online via Zoom
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With the signing of the Tellico Treaty of 1805, a road was cut through the Cherokee Nation to Augusta, Georgia. The Old Georgia Road, that ran through Athens, Georgia, was a major thoroughfare for white settlers entering Georgia from the Northwest. This class will provide an overview of the road and its impact.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 40
Dates: 8/25/2025 - 8/25/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: M
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Instructor: Linda Bishop
Building: River's Crossing
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Dr. Payton will present on the literary history of the Caribbean buccaneers, with a special focus on the emergence of the buccaneer journal as an international best-seller in the European literary marketplace during the late-17th and early 18th centuries. These journals established the Caribbean buccaneers as fixtures in the cultural imagination of Western Europe, the Americas, and ultimately the world. Dr. Payton's presentation will explore how the early image of the buccaneer was formed and why it continues to resonate centuries after the the dissolution of the buccaneer community.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 40
Dates: 8/28/2025 - 8/28/2025
Times: 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: Th
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Instructor: Jason Payton
Building: River's Crossing
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As a young, non-commissioned officer in 1970, then 19-year old US Army Sergeant Larry Saul served a combat tour in Vietnam. Fifty years later he returned to Vietnam. The purpose of the journey was to see the modern Vietnam, and, also, to rediscover himself. This lecture will look at the history, culture, and geography of Vietnam, from the late 19th century up to 1975. Larry will use his unit's mission and their experiences to present a snapshot of US involvement...then, fast forward to late 2018 and how Vietnam has progressed. He has made two subsequent trips, seeking something.
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Fee: $23.00
Capacity Remaining: 40
Dates: 10/22/2025 - 10/29/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sessions: 2
Days: W
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Instructor: Lawrence Saul
Building: River's Crossing
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