Always looking to innovate, and reflecting a desire to enter into subjects in depth, the Casual Conversation team, i.e, me, is offering you two occasions to explore the works of Austrian author Stefan Zweig, a Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Austria. The first is on Sunday, May 7, at 1 pm Eastern Time for a
Wines of the Clif Family Winery, St. Helena, CA
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 5:00pm.
On this Sunday, December 18, at 1 pm Eastern (US) time, the Traveling Troupe, made up of classmates and others, will present a reading on Zoom of classmate Eric Forsythe’s translation and adaptation of A Flea in Her Ear, which is widely believed to be the greatest of all French farces by the greatest of all French farceurs, Georges Feydeau.
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:
Our most recent wine testing (March 25th) was a great time!
Wines of the Clif Family Winery, St. Helena, CA
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 6:00pm.
The same sommelier who hosted our initial wine tasting is back – Dona’s cousin, Allie Nault. Allie is a level 3 sommelier currently at the Inn at Little Washington. The Inn is a Relais & Chateaux property set in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains southwest of Washington, DC. Allie had previously been at Commander’s Palace in New Orleans.
You will receive and we will be tasting 5 wines in 375ml bottles:
Inaugurating what I hope will be a new series of ad hoc pop-up Zoom get-togethers, I am sponsoring a Zoom poetry participatory reading this Tuesday, November 24, 2020, at 5 pm Eastern (US). Each person on the call will be expected to read two poems (of any authorship) of his or her choosing. That’s it. No obligation to pick a poem of a certain length, although some verse works—like Paradise Lost or Howl—might be considered
Dartmouth ’69 Homecoming 2020
Cooking Class Recipes, Prior Prep Instructions, and Shopping List
Please Note: The Shopping List for all three recipes is located at the end of this document.