This year marks the Amos Fortune Forum’s 75th season of live presentations at the Jaffrey Meetinghouse.
On July 8, before the first lecture on “America and Journalism Fifty Years After Watergate,” delivered by Carl Bernstein, the forum is hosting a tent celebration from 5:30 t0 7:30 p.m. at the Jaffrey Center Village Improvement Society’s Cutter Park Lawn, under the flagpole, at the corner of Route 124 and Laban Ainsworth Way. Appetizers and beverages will be served, and there will be a silent auction. People can view items in the silent auction at amosfortune.com.
Tickets are $20 per person, and are available at amosfortune.com or by contacting Toni at greene.gildone@gmail.com or 603-313-2452.
This year’s lineup of speakers is as follows:
July 8: Carl Bernstein, “America and Journalism Fifty Years After Watergate.”
July 15: Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney-Garrett, “The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again.”
July 22: Robert Meeropol, “The Rosenberg Case: Still Current in 2022.”
July 29: Cheryl Hackett, “Brave Souls: Hidden Truths of Concealment Shoes.”
Aug. 5: Dan Weeks and SindisoMnisi Weeks, “Amos Fortune and the Journey from Abolition to Ubuntu.”
Aug. 12: Florence Reed, “Growing a Just and Sustainable World with Regenerative Agroecology.”
Aug. 19: Steve Zakon-Anderson, “History of Contra Dancing: How it Came to be Identified with the Monadnock Region.”