Join Middlebury College professor Glenn Andres on Wednesday, December 2, at 7 PM in the library’s main room. He will examine the remarkable range, quality, humanity, and persistence of Vermont’s built landscape. Andres’s talk will look beyond Vermont’s pastoral stereotypes to examine the remarkable range, quality, humanity, and persistence of its built landscape.
Andres has taught, primarily in the areas of architectural and urban history, at Middlebury since 1970. His research spans from the Italian Renaissance through 19th century America to postmodernism. He holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Cornell University and a PhD in architectural history from Princeton University.
His doctoral dissertation on the Villa Medici in Rome was pursued while a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. Underwriter: Crosby-Gannett Fund of the Vermont Community Foundation. The event is free and open to the public.
The Vermont Humanities Council’s First Wednesdays series is held on the first Wednesday of every month from October through May in nine communities statewide, featuring speakers of national and regional renown. Talks in Brattleboro are held at Brooks Memorial Library unless otherwise noted. The program is free, accessible to people with disabilities and open to the public. The Vermont Department of Libraries is the statewide underwriter of First Wednesdays.
Brooks Memorial Library is sponsored by the Brattleboro Retreat; Brattleboro Camera Club; Brattleboro Savings & Loan Association; Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC; Friends of Brooks Memorial Library; New Chapter, Inc.; Vermont Country Store; and the Windham World Affairs Council of Vermont.
Location Main Room. For more information contact Brooks Library by phone at 802-254-5290, by email at info@brookslibraryvt.org, or on the web at brookslibraryvt.org. Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT 05301. The event is free and open to the public.
First Wednesday Lecture Series: Glenn Andres The Buildings of Vermont
Wednesday 2 December 2015, 7 pm – 9 pm
Join Middlebury College professor Glenn Andres on Wednesday, December 2, at 7 PM in the library’s main room. He will examine the remarkable range, quality, humanity, and persistence of Vermont’s built landscape.
Andres’s talk will look beyond Vermont’s pastoral stereotypes to examine the remarkable range, quality, humanity, and persistence of its built landscape. Andres has taught, primarily in the areas of architectural and urban history, at Middlebury since 1970. His research spans from the Italian Renaissance through 19th century America to postmodernism. He holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Cornell University and a PhD in architectural history from Princeton University. His doctoral dissertation on the Villa Medici in Rome was pursued while a fellow of the American Academy in Rome.
Underwriter: Crosby-Gannett Fund of the Vermont Community Foundation
The Vermont Humanities Council’s First Wednesdays series is held on the first Wednesday of every month from October through May in nine communities statewide, featuring speakers of national and regional renown. Talks in Brattleboro are held at Brooks Memorial Library unless otherwise noted. The program is free, accessible to people with disabilities and open to the public. The Vermont Department of Libraries is the statewide underwriter of First Wednesdays.
Brooks Memorial Library is sponsored by the Brattleboro Retreat; Brattleboro Camera Club; Brattleboro Savings & Loan Association; Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC; Friends of Brooks Memorial Library; New Chapter, Inc.; Vermont Country Store; and the Windham World Affairs Council of Vermont.
Location Main Room
For more information contact Brooks Library by phone at 802-254-5290, by email at info@brookslibraryvt.org, or on the web at brookslibraryvt.org.
Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT 05301.
The event is free and open to the public.
