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Saturday Night at the Movies July 10, 2021

Our next Saturday at the Movies, employing the Amazon Prime Watch Party function, will be on July 10 at 8 pm Eastern (US).  The usual cautions apply: you will need a US Amazon Prime account, a lap top or desk top computer to watch the movie,  a web browser other than Safari (with Chrome working best), and you will have to rent (at $3.99) or purchase the movie from Amazon before you can join the party.  Watch Party has a chat feature so that we can talk among ourselves while the movie is in progress, and we join together after the movie is over to discuss it via Zoom.

Wine Tasting: Wines of Italy admin

Wines of Italy


Tuesday, May 25, 2021 at 6:00pm.
Our class sommelier, Allie Nault, is back with a tasting of Italian red wines.
 
You will receive and we will be tasting 5 wines in 375ml bottles:

Saturday night at the Movies, April 24, 2021 admin

On April 24 at 8 pm Eastern (US), film fans will once again gather for Saturday Night at the Movies employing the services of Amazon Prime’s Watch Party function.  Our last Saturday Night at the Movies joined nine of us together for the exemplary Caged starring Academy Award nominee Eleanor Parker and a cast of superb women actors including Hope Emerson as the cruel matron of a women’s prison. After we watched the movie, using the chat function to comment in real time, we convened via Zoom for a richer, “in person” discussion that lasted for almost an hour.
 

Casual Conversation March 21, 2021 with Paul Tuhus

On Sunday, March 21, at 3 pm Eastern our classmate Paul Tuhus will lead a Casual Conversation on travel. Paul’s description below of his lifetime of traversing our country and the world ought to entice all of us to attend this timely session held on the first full day of Spring. Get ready for your own travel when the lifting of pandemic restrictions gives you comfort. But there is no time like the present to plan for you to spread your wings. On March 21, let your imagination take flight.

Saturday Night at the Movies, March 20, 2021

On Saturday, February 27, your classmates held the second Saturday Night at the Movies using the Watch Party function of Amazon Prime.  Ten of us, plus partners, attended.  The film was The Set-Up (1949), starring Dartmouth heavyweight boxing champion Robert Ryan, Class of 1932.  Attendees had such a good time that we are doing a third Saturday Night at the Movies on March 20 at 8 pm Eastern.

Announcing our first Movie Night 2/27/2021

The Set-Up has been chosen for several reasons: it is a superb boxing movie with a compelling story line, beautifully directed, filmed and edited, and acted.  Ryan provides a Dartmouth and boxing connection.  It is also short:  only 1 hour and 12 minutes.  Further, it is one of the few movies to observe the unity of time.  The movie opens on a street clock and ends on the same clock 72 minutes later.  (Another movie that follows a strict unity of time and a strict unities of place and action is Hitchcock’s Rope which was filmed so as to appear to be a single continuous shot.  High Noon with

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