The EBWA 2016-2017 Calendar

All women are welcome
September 29th: Dr. Ellen McHale, author and executive director, N Y Folklore Society
“Stable Views; Voices from the Thoroughbred Racetrack”
Learn about the “backside” of the track about those who work daily with the horses, with little recognition or compensation.

October 27th: Corinne Carey, of Compassion & Choices
“Expanding Options at the End of Life”

November 17th: Lea Montalto-Rook, Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy
“Conserving and Connecting Communities”

December 15th: Peg Reich, longtime member of UUSS
“Stranger in a Strange Land: A Unitarian in Tel Aviv”

January 26th: Jean Quattrocchi, longtime member of the Adirondack Mountain Club
“Mushing in the Boundary Waters Wilderness of Minnesota”

February 23rd: Leslie Thiele, Immigration attorney with Whiteman Osterman & Hanna in Albany
“Immigration: Understanding the Maze”
Let’s improve our national dialogue on immigration by understanding how the U.S. immigration system is structured, how non-immigrants and immigrants may be admitted to the U.S, and the effects of current immigration policies on the US economy and labor force.

March 30th: Catherine Klatt, naturalist and photographer
“Moths, Birds, and Landscaping—The Night Shift”
This program will introduce ‘The Night Shift’: moths, in all their diversity and beauty. It will then explore the tight links between moths and birds, and unexpected ways that our home landscaping choices affect bird populations

April 27th: Amy Halloran, author
“The New Breadbasket: How the New Crop of Grain Growers, Plant Breeders, Maltsters, Bakers, brewers and Local Food Activists are Redefining Our Daily Loaf”EBWA Logo (2)

May 25th: Sara Brenner, MD, MPH, public health physician at SUNY Polytechnic Institute Colleges of Nanoscale Science & Engineering (CNSE)
“Implications of Nanotechnology on Human and Environmental Health”

June 15th: Field trip to the Kelly Adirondack Center- speaker Hallie Bond