![]() ![]() In contrast to the rich and relatively stable vocabulary we have at our disposal for beer and wine, cider generally remains just “the cider” in bars and at restaurant tables. Cider has experienced a bit of a renaissance in the last decade or so, but the language we use to describe it hasn’t really kept pace with the growth and improvement of the ciders that are now available to us. While Wisconsin lacks the climate and the soil to produce good wine, our state has a long tradition of growing great apples, and a few cideries have started making some really good ciders. Past Season – 2022 Thursday, J(Introductory) -Josh Mabie, “In Wisconsin, Your Local Wine Is Cider” Ours is free, but it includes neither Emerson nor Thoreau. Thoreau, Emerson, and Twain all tried out early drafts of some of their most famous works on the Lyceum circuit. For just two bucks you could have heard this 1842-1843 lineup at the Concord Lyceum. Within just four years of convincing the citizens of Millbury, Massachusetts to start the first Lyceum in 1827, Holbrook encouraged 900 other towns to start their own. His Lyceum movement was wildly successful. Holbrook believed that broad engagement with science, arts, letters, history, and philosophy could transform the young American republic, so he traveled around the country encouraging small towns to start lecture halls and laboratories where ordinary people could encounter extraordinary ideas. The name and inspiration for our Lyceum comes from the nineteenth-century Lyceums started by Connecticut farmer, schoolteacher, and scholar Josiah Holbrook. With this series, we aim to organize a place where expert speakers spark conversations about farming, food, environmental sustainability, and justice. The Lyceum is a series of monthly picnics and lectures at Pied Beauty Farm. ![]() We happily take your paper packaging and vegetable food waste for our compost pile, but it will help us if you bring a bag to take your recyclables home. If you have lawn or folding chairs, we’d encourage you to bring them for the picnic and talk. We always serve free pizza, but you are always welcome to bring your own picnic to supplement. We have a couple big tables for family-style picnicking, but if we run out of chairs and table space, we’d be grateful if people brought a blanket for the lawn. **PICNIC INSTRUCTIONS** If the weather is nice, we’ll picnic on the lawn in front of the barn. She is currently finishing up a book titled Terminal Regions: Queer Environmental Ethics in the Absence of Futurity that considers what community, persistence, and care might look like today if the future we’ve counted on turns out to be radically different because of climate change or other environmental ruptures. Sarah is Assistant Professor of English at UW-Madison. She has recently published essays on Vietnam War reporting and the Pacific Garbage Patch. Michelle is Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University where she researches and writes about Asian American literature, environmental issues, and feminist science studies. ** Cancelled for 2023 – Rescheduled for 2024** UPDATE 6/30: Heather will also read from her brand new collection Dandelions which is set to be published this fall. ![]() She’s joining us again to read from her new book, a collection of poems called In Kinship With Ash and to talk about her process and the craft of writing. Heather was part of the lineup for the very first Lyceum season back in 2018 when she read from her gorgeous book Where Honeybees Thrive. Thursd ay, JHeather Swan, a reading from A Kinship With Ash and Dandelions For Jeff’s talk, we will temporarily suspend the Lyceum’s usual prohibition on audio visual aids, because Jeff is probably going to bring some old records with him from Memphis. He has written about connections between the Civil Rights Movement, soul, and funk. Jeff is a historian of twentieth-century American music and the executive director of the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis. Thursday, JJeff Kollath, Executive Director of the Stax Museum of American Soul Music Check back around Memorial Day for more information on the rest of the schedule, or send us an email at if you’d like to receive updates. The 2023 Lyceum schedule is still a work in progress but we are excited to announce our first speaker of the season! We aim for talks about once a month, mostly on Thursday evenings. The course for the present season, as far as ascertained, is as follows: Directions to the Farm 2023 Season Free pizza from the farm garden is provided until it runs out. All attendees are welcome to PICNIC at the Farm from 6 o’clock until ten minutes before the lecture begins. THERE is a Lecture at this Farm once a month, at 7:30 pm.
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