Chapel in the Pines Sunday Program for June 19, 2022 via Zoom only
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass famously asked, “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” On
Sunday, June 19, Meadow Dibble will ask members of the Nauset Fellowship and their guests to consider “What to the Cape Codder is Juneteenth?” What, in other words, do we have to do with slavery? As the Founding Director of Atlantic Black Box, Meadow will share the discoveries that caused her to launch this grassroots public history project that empowers communities throughout New England to take up the critical work of researching and reckoning with our region’s complicity in the economy of enslavement.
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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Meeting platform will open at 9:30 for informal socializing. Program will begin promptly at 10:00. All are welcome.
Meadow Dibble, Ph.D. is Director of Community-Engaged Research at the Permanent
Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, and Tribal Populations in Maine and a Visiting Scholar at Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. She received her Ph.D. from Brown’s Department of French and taught Francophone African literature at Colby College from 2005–08. Originally from Cape Cod, Meadow lived for six years on Senegal’s Cape Verde peninsula.
No Surrender takes place after the statue of Robert E. Lee is removed from its pedestal, when the displaced General stumbles into a homeless encampment and gives a history lesson. The play was filmed last year, when live performances were rare, and features actors are John Shuman, John Dennis Anderson, and Patrick Riviere. No Surrender was originally shown as part of a three-play collection, “Racial Reckonings,” produced by the Wellfleet Preservation Hall and made possible with grants from the Wellfleet Cultural Council and the Joan Patchen Fund of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Playwright Candace Perry will introduce the play and lead a discussion following the screening. All are welcome.
confused about your choices and about which choices really matter? We live here because we care for the natural environment that surrounds us, yet we can’t seem to get even close to zero waste. Kari Parcell, Barnstable County’s Regional Waste Reduction Coordinator has deep knowledge of recycling practices supported by all 23 Cape and Island municipalities and knows what is working . . . and what’s not. She will share insights into current markets and local recycling programs that will help us each become a better recycler.
assistance to the region’s 23 municipalities on solid waste management, reduction, and diversion. She is also co-owner of ReFashion Chatham Consignment & Savvy Thrift and an Adjunct Professor at Mass Maritime Academy in Buzzard’s Bay. Parcell hold a Masters of Public Administration from Southern New Hampshire University and a B.A. in Political Science and Theory from the University of Oregon.
now at the Edward Gorey House, looks at the influence that NYCB choreographer George Balanchine obviously had over Edward and how dance and movement came to permeate so much of Edward’s works. Gregory Hischak will review the highlights of Edward’s career, show examples from this year’s exhibit and discuss the importance of dance in Gorey’s body of work.
and documentary filmmaker, he has covered war in the Balkans, unrest in Latin America, national security issues in Washington D.C., terrorism in Boston, and climate change and poverty throughout New England. Born and raised in New York City, Abel’s career started in Mexico City, where he wrote for an expatriate newspaper covering the nation’s social movements and economic woes. Before that, he spent a year in San Francisco, writing poetry, fiction, and articles for the Haight Ashbury Free Press.
individual challenge and the collective potential of living within the environment. Our present economic system has promoted an implicit perspective that we control the environment but the speed of climate change is sufficient evidence that the environment, natural forces, the Earth have a balance of their own. The discussion will address the inconsistency between our present economic worldview and the attainment of sustainability.
Madhavi Venkatesan is a faculty member in the Department of Economics at Northeastern University where her teaching and research focus is on aspects of sustainability, and the economic operationalization of sustainability. She is the editor-in-chief of Sustainability and Climate Change, a peer reviewed journal dedicated to timely multi-disciplinary research and discourse on issues on and related to sustainability and climate change. Prior to re-entering academics, Madhavi held senior level investor relations positions at three Fortune 250 insurers.
“Queen of the Muckrakers.” Beginning with her 1963 blockbuster The American Way of Death –an exposé of the funeral industry’s exploitation of the poor–Mitford’s writing revived, and radicalized, Gilded Age ideas of civic responsibility in ways which continue to impact contemporary debates over social inequality, whistle blowing, and the ethics of writing. Kaplan shows us how Mitford’s life choices and intellectual insights are relevant today.