Aug. 1 - Climate Change and the Ocean, lecture by oceanographer, Jack Barth Jack Barth, an oceanographer at Oregon State University and summer visitor to Eagles Mere, will discuss what he knows about climate change's effects on the ocean, including warming, ocean acidification, and decreasing levels of dissolved oxygen. He will share his research using…
Aug. 8 - Film, Charm City Kings (2020). Mouse, 14-year-old boy, is fascinated by the street bike culture in Baltimore, Maryland. He desperately wants to join the Midnight Clique, a group of Baltimore dirt-bike riders who rule the summertime streets. His mother disapproves of his interest in motorbikes as his older brother Stro died in…
Aug 13 - Documentary, My Name is Pauli Murray (2020). Fifteen years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, Pauli Murray was arrested for doing this very same thing! Murray, who would become a pre-eminent poet, writer, lawyer, civil and women’s rights activist, and Episcopal priest, then began a journey…
Aug. 22 – Film, The Quiet Girl (Ireland 2022 PG-13). Set in 1981, a withdrawn nine-year-old girl raised by impoverished parents among many other siblings. She is sent to spend the summer on a farm with a loving married couple, who are distant relatives. The discussion afterwards will also include the 88 page short story,…
Aug. 29 – Film, Hold Me Tight (France 2021) The central character, Clarisse, is on the run from her family for reasons that are not immediately clear. The film alternates between her adventures and scenes of her abandoned husband, Marc, as he struggles to care for his children at home. In director Mathieu Amalric’s carefully…