Nerd Nite Hudson Valley premieres Friday November 15th at 7:30pm at The Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY! Three fun-yet-informative visual presentations about our modern grammar, hijacking airplanes and amphibian migrations. With fun music, libations and guaranteed good company: Doors at 7pm. Tickets here!
THE SPEAKERS
Caroline Eisner
For All Intensive Purposes, I Could Care Less…English Grammar: When It’s So Bad, It’s Good
Tables are for eating customers only. Pinned to the wall, Rudy read the note. And the note said that no grammar is incorrect. Getting academic, the Rhetorical Triangle, along with grammatical choices, syntactic flexibility, and rhetorical effects, will be discussed.
Brendan Koerner
Havana Here We Come: An Introduction to the Golden Age of Hijacking
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine in the United States. Once a week or more, some desperate soul armed with a revolver, stick of dynamite, or jar of acid would commandeer a commercial jet and turn their fellow passengers into hostages. We’ll explore the skyjackers’ motives and techniques, the airlines’ bewildering decision to accept regular hijackings as a mere cost of doing business, and the reasons why this bizarre criminal epidemic finally came to an end.
Nadia Azizi & Marjorie Lewit
Real Life Frogger
An “indicator species,” frogs are going extinct at an alarming rate. Here’s what you can do to help.