Spring Semester 2024
Feb 2 Cell Phone Technology. Terry Malarkey
Feb 9 Dark
Feb 16 The American Civil War, Slavery, and Cotton. Al McKegg
Feb 23 Dark
Mar 1 Energy!!! And a little climate. Josh Hall
Mar 8 Marine Drones. Joe Betit
Mar 15 Concorde SST. Janet Rochester & Terry Malarkey
Mar 22 Updates on the Metabolic Health Movement. John Durmick
Mar 29 Bush Medicine; Empiric Pharmacology. Art Fournier
Apr 5 Digital Art: Sparking Creativity and Innovation. John Antoine Labadie
Apr 12 What's Eating You? Ticks! Marilyn Ailes
Apr 19 Confessions of a Jaded Recycler: Can We Make a Difference? Sue Mastyl
Apr 26 Overshoot in the Anthropocene, Update. John Durmick
Autumn 2023 (Note New Time Slot)
Oct. 6 - Terry Malarkey - Single Malt Scotch Whiskey
Oct. 13 - David Poyer - Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Oct. 27 - Terry Malarkey: On the Home Front; WWII and a London Suburb. And Ukraine.
Nov. 3 - Dave DiBetta - Reflections as an Agent at the Siege at Waco or Dave Was There Too.
Nov. 10 - Art Fournier - Death Sentence: "Cruel and Unusual" Medical Treatment of the Imprisoned.
Nov. 17 - Josh Hall - Nanotechnology, the next Industrial Revolution
Dec. 1 - Mark Nuckols - WW-I in Literature and Film
Dec 8 - Josh Hall - Where is my Robot Butler? (A Stroll through the Landscape of Cybernetics)
Spring 2023
Jan. 13 - Catherine Kehrig: The Art of Ancient Egypt.
Jan. 20 - Josh Hall: The Greatest Science Fiction Story.
Jan. 27 - John Durmick: A Brief History of Industrial Food, Part 1, Origins
Feb. 10 - Gaylen & Dana Garrett: Getting to Know You & Preserving Your Roots; Family History
Feb. 17 - John Durmick: A Brief History of Industrial Food, Part 2, "Big Ag"
Feb. 24 - Dave Drummond: Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Mar. 3 - John Durmick: A Brief History of Industrial Food, Part 3, "Big Food"
Mar. 10 - Josh Hall: ChatGPT: Revolutionizing the way we interact with machines
Mar. 17 - Tim Smith: The Chamberlain Key Revisited.
Mar. 31 - Sharon Osborn: Wrangling Marvelous Monarchs; How We Can help Them Multiply.
Apr. 7 - Terry Malarkey: Induction Cooktops; What, Why, & How.
Apr. 21 - Art Fournier: Metabolic Syndrome: The Silent Scourge of Civilization!
Apr. 28 - Tony Picardi: Letters From a Rotten Log
May 5 - Janet Rochester: A Walk through the Plant Kingdom
May. 19 - Dave Drummond: Submarines: A to Z.
Jun. 2 - Mark Nuckols: The Slavs, the Balkans, and WW I.
Fall 2022
Art Fournier: The Telehealth Revolution and COVID-19
Dave Drummond: The Gold Ship(Wreck) of 1851
Joe Chaddic: From Bootlegger to Diplomat; 40 Years in the Foreign Service.
Sandy & Ken Schultz: Hurricane Ian - An (Almost) First-Hand Experience
Terry Malarkey: On the Home Front; WWII and a London Suburb.
Ed Murdy: The Galapagos Islands - A stark, lovely, inhospitable and welcoming evolution laborator
Josh Hall: Last Man on the Moon
Fall, 2021
Terry Malarkey - On the Home Front: A London Suburb and WW-I
Terry Malarkey - Single Malt Scotch Whiskey
John Durmick - Overshoot in the Anthropocene: Part 1, The Human Footprint in the 21st Century (Updated)
Art Fournier - Theodicy Kreyol- good, bad, and evil in Haiti, 2005- 2021
John Durmick - Overshoot in the Anthropocene: Part 2: The Future of Oil
Kristine Marcy / Ed Murdy - Shore U - What's Next?
John Durmick - Overshoot in the Anthropocene: Part 3: The Economics of "The Great Acceleration
Paul Ewell - The New Grinch: Pandemic Logistics
Spring 2016
Jack Cranford - Survival in Cold Water
Art Fournier - When Medical Treatment is Futile
Laura Vaughan - The story of the Barrier Islands Center
Mau VanDuren - Prequel to the US Constitution
Alan Silverman - Apotheosis of Abraham Lincoln
Joe Betit - Geospatial Surveying for the Washington Metro
Art Schwartzschild - Linking Ecological Observations with Art and Science
Marilyn Ailes - Invasive Alien Plant Species
Terry Malarkey - London during World War II
MaryKay Mulligan - Dealing with Grief
Catherine Kehrig - Windsor Castle and The British Royalty
Robert Paschall - Disorders of Memory
John Schulz - The Iran Nuclear Treaty
Martin Freed - Einstein's Theories of Relativity
Ruth Baskerville - The Hoodless Klan
Fall 2015
Ed Murdy -Fishes of Chesapeake Bay
Lee Jordan-Anders = Clara Schumann - A Life in Music
Ina Burch = Project Horizon - Turning Potential into Acheivemant
Jacqueline Colledge - International Trade Treatys - Why the Controversy
Serge Dihoff - Rotary International Peace Fellowship Program
Diana LoVecchio - New Eastern Shore Hospital Update
Dudley Rochester - Preparing for End of Life
Catherine Kehrig - Life in Ancient Egypt
Jay Ford - Chicken Farming Expansion on the Eastern Shore
Spring 2015
Ron West - Eastern Shore Ferries
George Budd - Birds of the Eastern Shore
Bob Paschal - Traumatic Brain Injury
George Foster - Fruit Horticulture on the Eastern Shore
Lloyd Kellam - Contemporary Issues in Cardiology
Janet Givens - Peace Corps Memories from Kazakhstan
Josh Hall - Nanotechnology
Russell Vreeland - Microbes in Extreme Environments
Ed Bull - Treating Peripheral Neuropathy
John Bulette et al. - Addiction Panel Discussion
Pat Coady - Local Investing Methods
Jim Mason - Factory Farms - Ethics vs. Economics
Kim Lin - Modern Skyscrapers Design and Construction
Donna Bozza - CBES - Plans and Programs
Paul Rochmis - Uric Acid - Implications for Evolution and Health
Sandy & Ken Schultz - Suwanee River - Geology, Flora and Fauna
Fall 2014
Art Fournier Metabolic Syndrome
Orest Pelech Secular Religion
Jay Ford Empathy and Ethics
Joe Valentine Chesapeake Bay Log Canoes
Cathy Tignor Victorian Architecture
Diana LoVecchio New Hospital Plans
Martin Freed Oceanic Blooms
Michael Male Photographing Snowy Owls
Kellee Greene Blake Weary of War - ESVA in 1864
Spring 2014
Josh Hall Where's My Flying Car
John Schulz Songs from a Distant Cockpit
Jack Cranford Energy Conservation in Alpine Animals
Jay Ford Permaculture & Forest Farming
Ethington & Fisk Antares Rockets to the Space Station
Ken Schultz Red Drum on the Eastern Shore
Art Fournier HIV - A Smart Virus
MaryKay Mulligan As Time Goes By
M. Freed & R Vaskys Alaska: The 49th State - Myth and Reality
Terry Malarkey London During and Post WW2
Russell Vreeland How Did Life Arise
Ruta Vaskys My Immigrant Roots
Josh Hall Cold Fusion
Orest Pelech The Crisis in Ukraine
Tony Picardi Culture and Fabrics in Vietnam
Fall 2013
Chris Moore Water Quality, Fish and Shellfish in the Chesapeake
Art Fournier Vodou Saints – Life, Death & Resurrection in Haiti
Terry Malarkey Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Ursula Deitch Trends in Agriculture on the Eastern Shore
Russell Vreeland Evolution vs. Creation: Seriously
Marilyn Ailes Phragmites
Bill Stilwagen Gun Control - Is it about Guns or Control?
Mike Zohab Sovereigns - Domestic Terrorist Groups
Paul Rochmis Gout from 2600 BC to Today
Kellee Green Blake The War, the Shore and Christmas in 1863
Spring 2013
Russell Vreeland Honey Bees
Terry Malarkey The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk
Joe Bongiovanni Rational Case for Monetary Reform
Jack Ordeman F. W. Benson: American Artist
Bob Paschall Advances in Neurology
Wade Broughman The New Hospital in Onancock
Linda Schulz Early-childhood Education
Judge J. Fulton Drug Courts
John Bulette Addiction
Terry Malarkey Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Catherine Kehrig Gods & Goddesses of Ancient Egypt
Paul Ewell Evolution of Virginia Boats
Bob Mayes Information Shadows
Matt Cormons Roadside Flowers
Nancy Kupar-Page Ukrainian Traditional Egg-painting
Dave Burden Shorekeepers Coastal Monitoring Program
Josh Hall Agent-Based Robotics
Fall 2012
Glen Winters Bizet's Pearl Fishers
Marilyn Ailes Environmental Hazards - Nasty Critters
Wes Brown Epigenetics
Martin Freed Oceanographic Modeling
MaryKay Mulligan George Mead / Social Psychology
Paul Rochmis Osteoporosis
John Schulz Nuclear Weapons Proliferation
Geo. Reiger & K.Schultz Striped Bass
Jack Cranford Bats
Tony Picardi Costa Rican Wildlife
Jerry Sovitch Oil Exploration and Life in the Oil Patch
Spring 2012
Doug Arvidsen Traditional Navigation in the Pacific
Tony Picardi Drought in the Sahel - 1968
Russell Vreeland Survival of Microbes in Space
Joe Bongiovanni Restoring the Lost Science of Money
Carolyn McGavock Eastern Shore Butterfly Gardening
John Bulette Cultural Trauma
Josh Hall Ethics for Machines
John Schulz Afghanistan: Then and Now
Kim Lin Three Gorges Dam Environmental Impacts
Terry Malarkey Lightning
Henry Kurbin Advances in Preventative Medicine
Sandy & Ken Schultz Kayaking the Delaware River
Libby Norris C.B.F. Agricultural Stewardship Program
George Reiger Potomac River Commission
Susan Brown Biology of Aging
Roy Lock Tanzanian Groundnuts Caper
Fall 2011
Pasquale Petrera Current Practices in Orthopedic Surgery
Caleb Fowler Building a Passively Efficient House
Joseph Donahue Wind Energy Overview
George Reiger 1969 Paris Peace Talks - Behind the Scenes
Lana McKinzie Darwin Updated
John Schulz 20th Century Media Revolution
Michael Zohab America's War on Drugs
Jennifer Johnsen Mindfulness
Sandy & Ken Schultz Kayaking the Na Pali Coast
Spring 2011
Terry Malarkey London in World War II
Roxanne Wolf Sex, Lies and the Ugly Truth: HIV in 2011
Sharyn McQuaid Landscaping with Edible Plants
George Foster Organic Fruit Horticulture
MaryKay Mulligan Sociology of Retirement
Alan Silverman Wind Power
Steve Johnsen Modern Piracy
Geoff Gubb Lyme Disease
Sue Mastyl A Solar Powered Home
Amb. Robert Keeley Politics and Economics in Greece
Orest Pelech Research Universities
Sandy Schultz America's Oldest Suspension Bridge
Nancy Stern Health Services on the Eastern Shore
Al Picardi Colonial Era Piracy on the Eastern Shore
Roy Lock Cuban Missile Crisis
Janet Rochester Grand Canyon