THE AMOS FORTUNE FORUM

Alan Rumrill

Monadnock Originals: Colorful Characters from New Hampshire’s Quiet Corner

Sam Evans Brown

The Energy Transition And Why It’s Inevitable

Paul Wainwright

New England’s Colonial Meetinghouses: A Little-Known Chapter of American History

Hahrie Han

Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church

Abigail LePage

Ten Generations: Deep Roots and Scientific Pursuits

Tricia Rose Burt

Conformity to Courage: This is No Time to be Timid

Dayton Duncan

How New Hampshire Helped Save the American Buffalo From Extinction

Rob Hannings

America’s Pastime: A Journey Through Local Baseball History

Annette Polan

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor: A Portrait in Words and Images

Nora Suarez Lewis

The Journey from Enslaved to Patriot: Amos Fortune and Other Early African Americans in New Hampshire

Mark Beckwith

Seeing Beyond Polarization

Gordon Peery

The Folkway: Fifty Years Out

Kerstin Burlingame

America’s Preeminent Sculptor You’ve Never Heard Of: Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Bill Gardner

Will the 60th US Presidential Election be the Last?

Andrew H. Card, Jr.

Democracy Now

Andy Davis

The Sweater

Chris Myott

The Art and Stories of Chris Myott

Joan Brooks Baker

Through the Lens of My Camera: The Essence of Woman

Tony Whittemore, Jeff Whittemore, & Eric Stange

Pony Boys: The Story of an Adventure of a Lifetime

Littleton Alston & Ashley Olson

Willa Cather As Creator: Breaking the Mold and Carving a Place in History

Jennifer A. Gruda

A View From Behind the Bench

Carl Bernstein

America and Journalism: Fifty Years After Watergate

Robert D. Putnam & Shaylyn Romney-Garrett

The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

Robert Meeropol

The Rosenberg Case, Still Current in 2022

Cheryl Hackett

Brave Soles: Hidden Truths of Concealment Shoes

Sindiso Mnisi Weeks & Dan Weeks

Amos Fortune: Beyond Abolition to Ubuntu

Florence Reed

Growing a Just and Sustainable World with Regenerative Aroecology

Steve Zakon-Anderson

Contra-Dancing: Past and Present and its Vital Role in the Monadnock Region

Francelia Clark

Seeking Out the Settlers of Monadnock

Courtney Banghart

Competitive Leadership: Strive, Thrive, and Advance

Greg Cunningham

A View from the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis

Will Torrey

Your Health Matters: Access to High-Quality Psychiatric Care

Francie von Mertens

Wild Bees, The Pollinator Pros

Ted Widmer

Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington

Sam Hackler

Growing Up in East Jaffrey

Robert Goodby

The First to See Monadnock

Anne Pierce

How Florence Nightingale Saved the British Army

Jamie Trowbridge

The Survival of a Small Media Company – Yankee

Paul Jenkins

Why the Beatles Mattered and Still Matter

Grace Aldrich

Exploring Stories of Race, Belonging, and Trauma

Ernest Thompson

What’s Your Story?

Mark Bean

The Death of William K. Dean: Murder by Person(s) Unknown

Patricia Brennan

Time to Step Up: Defending Oddball Science

Deborah Klimburg-Salter

Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Afghanistan

Jonathan Putnam

How Did the Young Lincoln Become Our Lincoln?

Virginia Eskin

NH: Cultural Mecca for Artists, Composers, and Authors

Seth Brenzel

Developing Youth Through Music, Creativity & Community

Steve Walker

The Future of Energy & How Our Region Can Lead the Transition

Stephen H. Gehlbach

Another Kind of Plague

Emily Chetkowski & A.H. Heather

Saving the Newfoundland Pony

Paul Hutchinson

Emerson, Monadnock, and the Summer Camp Movement

Ann McClellan

Tiny Trees, Big Stories

Mary Drew & Lt. Terry Choate

New Hampshire’s Silent Killer

C. Destrempes, B. Hazen & S. Kelly

Taking Art off the Wall: Creating Meaningfully

Larissa MacFarquhar

Impossible Idealism and the Urge to Help

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Honoring Amos Fortune’s Life and Legacy: On Witness, Justice and Respect

Iain Kerr

Why Whales?

Dan Barry

Baseball, Bunkhouses, and Burlesque: Travels Across America

Susanne Wentzler

The German Refugee Crisis, a Threat or an Opportunity?

Clay Mitchell

Renewing Energy: A Clear and New Vision

Jamie Hamilton

Iqra: Reading the Qur’an

Dan Hurlin

Futurism, Puppets and Me:  A personal look at the Italian Futurists

Nick Capasso

Creating a Community Oriented Art Museum

Jerome Schultz

Nowhere to Hide: How Stress is Putting the Brains of Students with Learning Disabilities and ADHD (and others) at Risk

Rebecca Eaton

Making Masterpiece

Ellen Widmer

Trip Toward Tomorrow

Philipp Krüger

Big Data: Transforming Freedom, Security and Business

Severine Fleming

A New Economy on the Land

Eric Masterson

The Migration of Broad-winged Hawks

Chuck Lewis

The Future of Truth and the Decline of America’s Moral Integrity

David Fairchild

Medicine:  Moving from “Illness-care” to “Health-care”

David Leventhal

The Arts as Lifeline:  Dance, Parkinson’s and Aging Well

Dayton Duncan

Seed of the Future: Yosemite and the National Park Idea

Jane Difley

he Forest Society: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow in NH’s Forests

Kristen Gresh

She Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran/Arab World

Lawrence Lessig

Achieving Equal Citizenship: Struggle to Restore Our Republic

Maximillian L Ferro

Why Historic Preservation?

Susan Heuck Allen

Indiana Jones? Classical Archeologist Spies against the Nazis in WWII Greece

Sam Kennedy

The Business of Baseball:  An Inside Look at Running the Red Sox

Sara Mansfield Taber

What is it Like to Grow Up as the Daughter of a Spy?

Robert Putnam

The Opportunity Gap:  Reviving the American Dream

Joseph S. Nye

20th Century American Presidents and Foreign Policy

James J. McCarthy

What the Oceans are Telling Us about Climate Change

Don Burness

Taking Care of Mary Lou

Nancy Gertner

Fragile Gains: A Woman’s Improbable Journey from a Brooklyn Tenement, Through Advocacy, To a Federal Judgeship

Bonnie Harris

What’s Parenting Got to Do with It?

Margaret E. Ward & Nelson Ward de Witt

Finding Family in the Aftermath of El Salvador’s Civil War: Mysteries-Discoveries-Reflections

Robert Weinberg

Origins and Treatment of Cancer: Where Are We Headed?

Katherine Hoffman

Through the Lens: Alfred Stieglitz and His Fight for the Role of Photography as a Fine Art

Philip Gourevitch

Crime Scenes & Aftermaths: Reckoning with Survival after Genocide

Mary Catherine Bateson

Living Longer, Thinking Longer

Ambassador George Bruno

Give me your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free…or Perhaps Not

Tom Wessels

The Foundational Principles of Sustainability

Gary Hirshberg

Inventing a Win-Win-Win-Win Future

Sabrina Tavernice

Reporting a War

Lewis Feldstein

When you Become President of a Foundation

Eliza Griswold

The Tenth Parallel: The Fault Line Between Christianity & Islam

Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot

The Third Chapter: Looking Back and Giving Forward

Richard S. Meryman, Jr.

The Dublin Art Colony: A Medley of Great Gifts

Ted Widmer

Jefferson’s Koran: The Story of an American Book

Emily Jones

Education for a Democracy

Ben Watson

Food Traditions: Slow Food, Local Food and Backyard Biodiversity

Barry West

Society and the Communications Revolution

Sy Montgomery

Birdology

David T. Sobel

Place-based Education: Making Schools like a Farmer’s Market

Edward R. (Ted) Leach

Climate Change Challenge:  Too Little, Too Late?

Robert D. Putnam

E. Pluribus Unum: Immigration, Diversity and Community

Hahrie Han

Activism in the 2008 Campaign: What Does It Mean for the Future?

Michelle Belletete

Addressing Humanitarian Crisis: Joys and Sorrows

Larissa MacFarquhar

A Tourist in Other People’s Lives

Karl Kaiser

America’s New Foreign Policy: Promises and Realities

Keith Stevens & Gus Kaikkonen

A Life in Theater – The Peterborough Players Observe Their 75th Anniversary

Carl Colby

Abbott Thayer and the Sanctity of Nature

Lincoln Chen

Rockefeller, Ford & Gates – American Philanthropies Go Abroad

Charles Daloz

 An Experiment in Ecological Technology

Robert Barry

Averting Nuclear Anarchy

Craig Brandon

Monadnock: More Than a Mountain

The Right Rev. V. Gene Robinson

Ministry in the Eye of the Storm

Richard Ober

Monadnock Tomorrow

P J Cooke

Carrying a Torch (Song…that is!) A Cabaret Performer

Rick Harnden, Jr.

Habitable Zones: On Earth, in the Solar System & Our Galaxy

Cate Marvin

Why Poetry? Why Not?

Roderick MacFarquhar

Mao’s Last Revolution

Heather & Kacy Ames

International Child Adoption: Lessons Learned during the Past 50 Years

Charlton MacVeagh, Jr.

Doing Good, Well: 25 Years of Community Development

Samuel B. Mukasa

Climate Change: Lessons Learned from Antarctica

John Hanson Mitchell

Mr. Gilbert: Uncovering the Life of the First African-American Landscape Photographer

Dorothy Yanish

“Her Top Was Ethereal – Her Bottom Divine!” a Lighthearted Look at the Life of an Opera Singer

Dr. Stephen Gehlbach

Seeking the Medical Cures: Some Lessons from the Past

Deborah Schachter

Acts of Caring & Community Building: NH Charitable Giving

Dr. David Deifik

Birding Adventures in Australia: Exotic Species Down Under

Dan Barry

The Worth in the Life of a Knucklehead

Jeanne Duval

Between Perception and Invention: Three Generations of Figurative Artists

Dr. Robert Chase, M.D. 

Trajectory: Scientific Discoveries in Medicine

Anne Ostendarp

Who Was Amos Fortune?

Dr. Andrew Cooke

Stories & Reflections of a New Hampshire Veterinarian

Jody Connor

How Healthy Are New Hampshire’s Lakes & Ponds?

Anne McClellan

Traditions of the Cherry Blossom Festival

Walter H. Peterson

Reflections on Troubled Times

Ruah Donnelly

Plant Sleuthing in N.E.  with a Horticultural Connoisseur

Carroll J. Lehman

Music and the Human Experience

G. Goodby

11,000 Years: Monadnock Native America History & Archaeology

Barbara Dimmick

Novel One, Novel Two, Novel Three

Skip Cornelius

Advertising Myths and Realities

Mitchell S. Thomashow

Observing Environmental Change: Why It Matters

Michelle & Jack Belletete

High Mountain Hiking: Monadnock to Kilimanjaro

Colony, L. Willett

Harrisville: Stewardship of a National Historic Village

Cheryl Young

MacDowell Colony: Residency Programs Shape the Art World

Donald J. Williams

The Galileo Mission: Summary and Mission’s End

Bob Abernathy

What I’ve Learned About Covering Religion

Carl Cooley

Disabilities & Families: Insights into Resiliency & Adaption

Robert Barry

Nation Building – Path to Democracy or Hegemony?

Peter Quick

Mapping the Underground – A Subterranean Visit

Polly Longsworth

Emily Dickinson’s Civil War

Sheila Blair

The Art of Writing in Islamic Art

Richard Ober

The Power of Place

Robert Emmett Ginna, Jr.

Knowing Ireland: A Walk through Past and Present

J. Reno

Different Mountain: Reflections of a Professor of Religious Studies

Dan Hurlin

Beyond Kermit–A Performance Artist Finds His Way to Puppetry

David H. Watters

Robert Frost’s Civil War

Jonathan Shackleton

Sir Ernest Shackleton

Jonathan Bloom

The Paper Trail

Lori Arviso Alvord, M.D. 

Ceremony Medicine

R. Harnden, Jr. 

NASA X-Ray Vision

Ronald M. Green

The Human Gnome

Judson Hale

Weather/Otherwise

Thomas K. Wessels

New England’s Changing Landscape

Zachary Wright

Islamic Culture and Religion

John P. Resch

Marx and Mills

Steven N. Fiering

Molecular Genetics

Ambassador Nancy E. Soderberg

Taking Risks for Peace

Henry M. Shooshan

Wired for the 21″ Century

Olga M. Davidson

Iran Today

Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot

Balm in Gilead

Jere R. Daniell

Algonkian New Hampshire

Susan Heuck Allen

The Walls of Troy

James J. McCarthy

Global Climate

Charles G. Bickford

A Year in Hanoi

Ambassador Bill Richardson

American Diplomacy

Donald J. Williams

Jupiter – Results

Deval L. Patrick

What Are Civil Rights?

Allen Koop

German POW’s in New Hampshire

Roderick & Emily MacFarquhar

Hong Kong Takeaways

Judge Nancy Gertner

Judging in the 90’s

Lee A. Sawyer

Hollywood “The Crucible”

George J. Hagerty

Higher Education

William W. Cook

Dr. Seuss

William W. Cook

Frederick Douglas Orator

Donald Hall

Poems from Eagle Pond

Virginia Eskin

N.H. Ground for Arts

Shirley Williams

Nations Coping with Change

Robert A. Chase, M.D.

A & D Presentation Then/Now

Dayton Duncan

The West

David H. Watters

N.H. Gravestones

Rawn W. Spearman

Music & Poetry: Langston Hughes’ Search for “Soul”

John O. Voll

Muslims and the West: Can We Live Together?

Cornelia Montgomery

Oriental Rugs: Beyond the Fringe

Arthur Kell

Into Africa: A Solo Journey from Senegal to Kenya

Robert D. Putnam

Bowling Alone: Civic Disengagement in America

Donald J. Williams

The NASA Galileo Mission to Jupiter: Journey’s End

D. Steinfeld, T. Kearney, & B. Keough

Privacy & Justice: Press Gone Too Far?

Virginia Eskin

The Ragtime Era: From Spirituals to Jazz

Walter H. Peterson

Wither Free Speech in a Society of Limits

Thomas W. Langfitt, M.D.

The Health Care Debate is Misdirected

Jane C. Mylander

The Very Dailiness of it All

Stephen H. Taylor

Food, Farms, and the Future

Abram T. Collier

So, You Want to Be Rich?

Roderick MacFarquhar

China in Transition

Theodore P. Greene

Jaffrey in Amos Fortune’s Day

David R. Woods

Living & Teaching in Central African’s Congo

Sy Montgomery

Tiger Magic

Merle A. Legg M.D., & Yangja Jung-Legg M.D.

Medicine & the Many Faces of China

Charles E. Buckley

North from Boston: The Cabinetmakers’ Trade 1730-1830

Arthur M. Pappas, M.D

A Baseball Fan’s Guide to Sports Medicine

Susan McLane

Which Way for New Hampshire?

Margaret Bean

Jaffrey and Willa Cather

Charles A. DeGrandpre

Politics & Justice: An Analysis of the N.H. Court System

Charles V. Willie

A Multicultural Perspective on Educational Reform

Elizabeth Pool

Pen, Brush, Chisel, & Clef: Dublin’s Halcyon Days

Louis L. Tucker

Jeremy Belknap, New Hampshire’s Happy Historian

Robert A. Chase, M.D.

The Stereoscope in Grandmother’s Attic

Richard Pipes

Soviet Sunset-Russian Dawn

Jere R. Daniell

The American Love Affair with the New England Meeting House

Donald J. Williams

The Galileo Mission to Jupiter: A Solar System Adventure

Robert Campbell

New England Town & Country: Architecture and Urban Design

Jean L. Hennessey

Quebec versus Canada: The James Bay Experience

John H. Mitchell

Thoreauvian Excursions

Janet Levine

The Turmoil of Transition: South Africa in the 90’s

J. O’Rourke

The Persian Gulf War

Gregor McGregor

Glasnost, Perestroika & Pollution: Environmental Challenges

Peter Ryner

Managing Growth and Change in the Monadnock Region

Lois K. Stabler

The World of Abner Sanger

Charles Merrill

Post-Communist Poland & Czechoslovakia: Hopes and Dangers

R.P. McDonough, R. Merryman, & A. Olney

Book Publishing: Best Seller or Perish

Charles Darden

Great Scott! The Scott Joplin Story

Dennis Littky

What Makes a Good School: Examples from Thayer High

Richard Lederer

The Strange Case of the English Language

Margaret Bean

The Dean Murder Mystery

George F. Cahill, Jr. M.D.

The Human Genome: Implications

Dayton Duncan

1988 Presidential Election: Grassroots to Media Campaign

Burgess Ayres

Some Giants of the Schoolyard

Marian I. Hughes

Amos Fortune: Sharing His Life Throughout the World

Gregory Nagy

Images of the Hero in Ancient Greece

Judith A. Sturnick

Leadership & Ambiguity: Perspectives on Higher Education

Dayton R. Duncan

The N.H. Primary: Myth and Reality

Shirley G. Adamovich

Cultural Perspectives: Libraries, Arts, Historical Resources

John A. Hrones

Religion and Science – Uneasy Partners

Lawrence M. Benaquist & David Leinster

Regional Studies & Documentary Film

Judson D. Hale, Sr.

New England: Shall We Keep It?

Betty Tamposi

Development & Conservation: Do Opposites Attract?

J. O’Rourke

A Tourist in the World’s Trouble Spots

Paul O. Bofinger

Trust for New Hampshire Lands

James F. A. Traniello

Social Behavior of Insects

Robert D. Yaro

The Changing Landscape of Rural New England

Charles Hamlen

Behind the Scenes with a Concert Manager

Margaret A. Johnson

Overlooking the Bosphorus: A Teacher’s View of Turkey

Robert A. Chase, M.D.

Medical Experience in India

Elizabeth Yates-McGreal

Amos Fortune Lives

Richard Frede

Researching Fiction: Adventures in Reality

Christopher Isham

Black Trade Union Dynamics of Change in South Africa

Arthur E. Palmer

Environmental Aspects of Real Estate Development

Stuart Wallace

Ethnic Origins of a Yankee State

Moncrieff J. Spear

Vietnam – The Fall of the Highlands

Richard F. Brinckerhoff

Stonehenge

Charles Merrill

Don’t Roller-skate in the Hallways

Graham H. Jeffries

Problems of Health Care in a Third World Country

Robert Emmett Ginna, Jr.

Books That Matter and Their Writers

Henry A. Freedman

Jack Levine-An American Painter Protester

Alfred Leroy Atherton, Jr.

Middle East Perspectives

Henry Lee

Changing Environmental Priorities

John Dryfhout

Saint Gaudens & the 100^th Anniversary of the Cornish Art Colony

Wayne Green

Restoring America’s Technological Leadership

Marilyn R. Campbell

Agriculture, Legislatively Speaking

Bancroft Greene

Letters from the Ainsworth Manse

Jonathan T. Ericsen

Do Birds Need Glasses?

Meade Cadot

Birds & Beasts of Our Wild Woods & How to Keep Them with Us

Sidney B. Smith

An Afternoon with Helen Keller

Phillippa Shaplin

Trans-Oceanic Art of the Americas Before Columbus

Sheldon S. Sawyer

Nothing Without Agriculture

J. O’Rourke

Exurbia Etiquette: Country Courtesy for Ex-Urbanites

Robert Alvin

Reflections on the Arduous Art of the Actor

Martha C. Moutner

U.S.- Soviet Relations – Old Wine in New Bottlenecks

Christopher Barnes

The MacDowell Colony – 75 Years of Eden

Ozzie Sweet

I Love the Wild

John R. Schott

Foreign Aid – A Personal and Professional Statement

Frances Nankin

Cobblestone: A Place to Begin

Richard Noyes

If These Walls Had Ears

Henry F. Smith, M.D.

The History of Childhood

Charlton MacVeagh

Economics of the Monadnock Region-Past & Near Future

Robert A. Chase, M.D.

Horizon Watching in Medicine

Mary Catherine Bateson

The Uses of Tradition

Ernest Hebert

You Can Go Home Again

Richard E. Cunningham

Willa Cather: Flight from the Wasteland

James L. Tullis, M.D.

Medical Vignettes from the Bible

Barbara J. Seelye

From the Inside Looking Out: A View of American Education

Watson D. Reid, M.D.

Holistic Medicine: Personal Perspective on a New Paradigm for Health

Bradford C. deWolf

The Joy of Working in Wood and Stained Glass

Judson D. Hale

Weatherwise and Otherwise: “It Always Rains on April 22”

Gregor I. McGregor

Political Barriers to Energy Conservation

D.B. Bryan

Friendly Fire & Some Not So Friendly

F.Cheney, Fr. A. Hoglof, & Rabbi R.Gittelsohn

Religion: Past, Present, and Future

Ira U. Cobleigh

The Roaring 80s in Wall Street

Jeff MacNally

A Sharp Pen Draws the Political Scene

John A. Gould

Truth of Fiction: A Novelist’s Aesthetic

Harold H. Hammer

Energy: Problems, Production, & Prices

Anthony Willie Jenkins

ABC (A Better Chance) Program Revisited

William C. Kruse

NATO: What is it?

Tom Smith

Amos Fortune: His Life & Times Through Folk Songs

David D. VanStrien

Palestinians: Key to Settling Arab Israeli Conflict

Leonard Fein

The U.S., Israel, and the Arabs

John G. Clark, Jr. M.D.

The Cult Phenomenon

Elizabeth Yanof & Sidney Bixler

Equal Rights Amendment: Who Needs It?

Bernard M. Barenholz

Early American Folk Art

Seymour St. John

The Late 60’s: Revolution or Aberration?

Richard T. Baker

The Pulitzer Prizes

Judge David Nelson

Crime, Youth, Race, & the Courts

David Birch

The Future of the Monadnock Region

Belle Dale Poole

Volunteers in Service to America: Medical & Social Problems

Donald Hall

Saving More String

Lael Wertenbaker

Correspondent WW II

Donald Burness

Africa Recaptured: An Essay on African Literature

Frederick Buechner

Reading from His Works

Robert Brandin

The Fallacies of Foreign Policy

William P. Bittenbender

Education and the Future of America

Maynard W. Swanson

Way Down South in Africa: Tension and Change

Donald M. Frame

Montaigne on the Absurdity & Dignity of Man

Prof. and Mrs. John K. Fairbanks

The Uncertain Future of China and America

J.Christopher, J.F.Hyde, & S.F. Keller

Solar Panel

Judson D. Hale

The Power of Country Thinking or Cooking Candy for the Brain

Henry Pleasants

Art of the American Popular Singer

The Hon. Walter Peterson

Private Colleges: How Strong a Breed?

Ian A. Ferrier

Socialized Medicine: What’s the Cost?

David McCord

Poetry: The Unclimbed Ladder

Emily Flint

People of the Sun: Mexico and Peru

The Rev. Bradford Abernathy

Christianity – Kenya Style

Bruce McClellan

North Atlantic Crossing

George Kendall

The MacDowell Colony, The MacDowells, Artists, Arts, etc.

G. McGregor

Environmental Movement: Passing Fancy or Permanent Reform

Michael Morello

Hope and Challenge for Troubled Youth

Mary Williams

Horses and Mankind in General and Me in Particular

Fr. T.Bresnahan & Fr. J.Heller

Personal Portrait of Changes in the Catholic Church

Agnes Seelye Bixler

Women in Sports: Ramifications of Current Legislation