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This study group is for people who already know how to play bridge. Join us if you would like to meet other ICL members who play and want to have more opportunities to play the game. We welcome those who have recently learned the game as well as intermediate and advanced players. We will be playing for FUN, not cutthroat! Hopefully we can all learn from one another.

NOTE: This is an ongoing study group, but new participants are always welcome.

Coordinator: Andrea Zietlow

The Thin Man was a series of six movies which were produced between 1934 and 1947. The movies starred William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles. The plot for these films centered around Nick and Nora's relationship as high society detectives. The films are full of laughs and mystery as Nick and Nora toast each other with champagne cocktails as they solve the latest "who done it"! The seventh class we will show two documentaries, one each on the lives of William Powell and Myrna Loy.

Coordinator: Bob Hartnett

The problem with Tom is that he said things like, “The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most ... unremitting despotism” while continuing to hold and profit from slaves. We cannot justify Jefferson by saying, "well, he was just a man of his times," for he spoke out against slavery more than any other Founder, and yet relied on slavery for his livelihood and comforts, all of his life. What gives? Historian Joyce Haworth will explore the ways in which Jefferson justified his slave-holding. His choices illustrate the conflicts embedded in early American society.

Coordinator: Joyce Haworth