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Thursday, September 6, 2018
 

BY KAREN BOSSICK

Presidential historian Jon Meacham will headline the Sun Valley Center for the Arts 2018-19 Lecture Series.

Series tickets go on sale to members only at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 7. Individual tickets for members only go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 14.

All remaining tickets will go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 21.

The Lecture Series speakers:

  • Jon Meacham, “The Soul of America,” 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3.

    Former editor-in-chief of Newsweek, Meacham won the 2009 Pulitzer Prizes for Biography for his book  “American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House.”

    The lecture is part of The Center’s BIG IDEA project We the People: Protest and Patriotism and is supported by an anonymous gift and Marcia and Don Liebich.

  • Joanne Weir, “Plates, Places and Stories from My Family Kitchen,” 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23.

    Chef Weir is a James Beard Award-winning cookbook author and chef. She spent five years cooking with Alice Waters at Chez Panisse in Berkeley and she hosted the PBS show “Joanne Weir’s Cooking Class” and “Joanne Weir gets Fresh.” Her latest series is “Joanne Weir’s Plates and Places.”

    The lecture is part of The Center’s BIG IDEA project “At the Table: Kitchen as Home” and is supported by Anita Braker & Dave Olsen and Sarah & David Woodward.

  • David Grann, “The Killers of the Flower Moon: The Arc of Justice,” 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 14.

Grann, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2003, has authored such books as “The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon,” “The Devil and Sherlock Holmes,” and Trial By Fire.”

“Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the F.B.I.,” a finalist for the National Book Award, investigates a series of murders of wealthy Osage people in Oklahoma in the early 1920s after big oil deposits were discovered beneath their land.

The lecture, part of The Center’s BIG IDEA project Unraveling: Reimagining Colonization in the Americas, is supported by an anonymous gift and American Capital Advisory.

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