OLLI Foreign Affairs, 2022 | History All Around

OLLI Foreign Affairs, 2022

March 18 – Russia

Articles –Russia under Putin 2022

Nuclear Arms Race

March 25 – Climate Change

Articles – Climate Change 2022

Climate COP 26 – Glasgow achievements

April 1 – The Quad Alliance

Articles – China and the Quad Alliance 2022

History Lessons for Ukraine, China and the U.S.

April 8 – Drug Policy in Latin America

Articles – Drug Wars in Latin America

‘Narconomics’ How the Drug Cartels Operate Like Walmart and McDonald’s

April 22 – Changing Demographics

Articles – Demography in the World

How does the Refugee System Work, Council on Foreign Relations

May 6 – Biden’s Agenda

History Shock

Pleased to announce the publication of my book in May 2021 by the University Press of Kansas. This collection of “stories with a history” narrates incidents over the course of my career in the Foreign Service when historical understanding – or lack of it – got in the way in the conduct of day-to-day diplomacy.

Advance Orders for History Shock
Berkshire County’s Industrial Heritage

Check out this book on the nineteenth century mills and those who owned and worked in them. Available through Arcadia Press or Amazo n.
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Slide Show – Getting to Yes, Woman Suffrage in the Berkshires and Beyond
Slide Show – Intersections, Pittsfield’s Neighborhoods
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Slide Show – Preserving the old Berkshire Athenaeum

Thomas Allen donated $50,000 to build the Athenaeum in 1876.

A yong architect from New York, William Appleton Potter, had his design selected for the new Athenaeum.

The original architectural drawing of the front elevation of the Athenaeum

An early photo of the High Victorian Gothic building, pointed arches, twin gables, multi-color stone patterns,skylight, stained glass windows

Majestic, quartered oak tresses in the addition built in 1896

Proposed new library design, in 1944

Bulging of stonework on from of building required drastic measures to shore up front, in 1979

A restored skylight is returned to the roof in repairs undertaken in 2001

Stained glass window on west gable, showing steel tie placed in 1979 stabilization repairs

Masonry work begins on the Athenaeum in the deep of winter

Removing the stained glass panels for repair

Cracks in the masonry

More cracks in the masonry

Lifting the capstone off the east gable, the first stone removedd
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