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ary Lecture Series <br />Free to All Lexington Residents <br />Clip Ticket For Each Event <br />The Committee: Robert Russman Halperin, Susan Emanuel, Rita Goldberg, Van Seasholes <br />Jill Lepore, our special lecturer in honor of Lexington's 300th anniversary, will speak <br />on Benjamin Franklin's sister, who shares a birth year with our town and was a lively <br />correspondent during the Revolution, Jill Lepore is a professor of American History <br />at Harvard University and a staff writer at the New Yorker. She is the prize - winning <br />author of many enthralling books on American history from colonial times to the pres- <br />ent, including The Allansion of Happiness (2012), on the board game of Life and Life <br />in America. <br />Cary Hall • SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2013 - 8 :OOPM <br />The United States today exhibits growing class disparities, How is our country being <br />reshaped by these changes, and what are the implications for us and our children? Join �¢ <br />us as Harvard professor and former Lexingtonian Robert Putnam explores the future of <br />American society in all of its diversity and complexity. Prof. Putnam is the bestselling <br />author of Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Making Cn <br />Democracy Work, and American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us. <br />Cary Hall • SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2012- 8:OOPM <br />How do you transfer meaning from one language to another? David Bellos, professor of <br />French and Comparative Literature at Princeton (and director of the Program in <br />Translation and Intercultural Communication) will speak on the history and art of trans- <br />lation, from Babel to Google. Bellos has translated many works by Georges Perec and <br />other French novelists and is the author of a witty survey of translation and interpreting <br />practices and myths (e.g. the "Eskimo Vocabulary Hoar'): his best - selling book-Is That <br />a Fish in Your Ear? was one of the New York Times's "100 Notable Books of 2011" and a <br />finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award. <br />Cary Hall • SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2012- 8 :OOPM <br />Lexington author and documentary filmmaker Rick Beyer will share insights, anec- <br />dotes, and behind - the - scenes adventures from a career in history and storytelling that <br />has taken him from Buckman Tavern to Tunguska, Siberia. His presentation will be <br />illustrated with numerous clips and outtakes from his work. Rick has made films for <br />The History Channel, National Geographic, the Lexington Historical Society, and oth- <br />ers, He is also the author of the popular Greatest Stories Never Told history series pub- <br />lished by Harper Collins, and has shared his unique take on history in interviews on <br />CNN, The Discovery Channel, NPR and Fox News. <br />Cary Hall • SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2012- 8:OOPM <br />E15 <br />e <br />0 <br />00 <br />I <br />m <br />0 <br />N <br />E <br />0 <br />0 <br />00 <br />N <br />0 <br />N <br />m <br />O <br />z <br />°o <br />00 <br />N <br />0 <br />N <br />N <br />r <br />►O <br />I <br />0 <br />o <br />00 <br />N <br />N <br />ao <br />c� <br />