The 134th season of community development sponsored by the Monteagle Sunday School Assembly (MSSA) will begin on Monday, June 12. From June to August, the MSSA honors its charter and history with varied religious, educational, and cultural programs and activities beginning on Sunday, June 12. The MSSA will host eight weeks of events for Sewanee residents and the surrounding community.
The opening week features lectures by Martin Knoll, Hillary Tindle, Liz Norell, June Mays, Scott Zimmer and Tom Mould and a performance by the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera String Quartet.
There will also be a workshop by Chattanooga Symphony and Opera’s Bob Bernhardt on Monday, June 12 beginning at 10:45 a.m. Bernhardt will present on compositions from John Williams, composer of themes from “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark.” “Bob’s Bootcamp! John Williams: Star Wars, and Beyond” will be in the Assembly’s new Pulliam Center.
Hilary Tindle, author of “Up: How a Positive Outlook Can Transform Our Health and Aging,” will draw on her own experience as a practicing physician and National Institutes of Health-funded research to show that our “unique patterns of thinking and feeling about ourselves, others, and the world… may be the key to how well and how fast we age,” according to Tindle’s book. Tindle’s lecture will be at 8:15 p.m. on Sunday, June 12 at Warren Chapel.
Martin Knoll, professor of geology at the University of the South, will present “Tenneswim: Swimming the Tennessee River in the Name of Water Quality” on Tuesday, June 14. Knoll grew up in Sewanee and is a Sewanee Academy and University of the South alum. Knoll’s research includes studies of stormwater hydrology and groundwater dynamics on the Cumberland Plateau, the geology of the Mojave Desert of southern California, the formation of insect-bearing Baltic amber and the geology of southwest Germany. Knoll’s lecture will be held at 10:45 a.m. at Warren Chapel.
A visiting assistant of political science at The University of the South, Liz Norell studies mass public opinion, political psychology and political institutions. In 2014, Norell presented a dissertation to the University of Texas at Dallas on Congressional polarization, mass public opinion and the link between elite and mass polarization. Her lecture, titled “Seven Reasons Our Politics Seem So Polarized” will be held at Warren Chapel on Wednesday, June 15 at 10:45 a.m.
June Mays, a graduate of the English Gardening School in London, has designed more than 100 gardens in the southeast. Mays focuses her work in areas surrounding Birmingham, Ala. and Chattanooga, Tenn. May’s lecture, “The Gardens of Downton Abbey,” will be held at Warren Chapel on Thursday, June 16 at 10:45 a.m. Mays will speak on the gardens of Highclere Castle where Downton Abbey is filmed. Mays is a member of the Garden Writer’s Association and the Association of Professional Landscape Designers.
Scott Zimmer, a market researcher and public speaker, will deliver a presentation on key differences between generations and solutions as to how to relieve intergenerational tension and facilitate collaboration. Zimmer’s lecture is titled “When Generations Connect” will be Thursday, June 16 at 8:15 p.m. in the Pulliam Center.
Tom Mould, professor of sociology and anthropology at Elon University in Elon, N.C., will present a lecture on Appalachian Folklore on Friday, June 17 at 10:45 a.m. at Warren Chapel. Mould is the author of several books on Mormon and Native American folklore and traditions among pottery collectors, African American steppers, welfare legends and ginseng hunters, according to MSSA’s lecturer biography.
On the evening of June 17, The Chattanooga Symphony and Opera String Quartet will perform at Warren Chapel. The performance will take place at 8 p.m.
For a full list of opening week activities, visit <www.mssa1882.net>.
Please note the following changes in the schedule for the following weeks of programs and activities:
David Hudgins’s lecture “From Book to Screen: A Discussion with David Hudgins and Greg Isles” has been rescheduled from Thursday, June 30 to Friday, July 1 at 8 p.m. in Warren Chapel.
“Daggers Drawn: The Power, Passion, and Pizzazz of Political Cartoons” with Kevin Kallaugher has been rescheduled from Thursday, July 14 to Thursday, June 30 at 8:15 p.m. in Warren Chapel.
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