Noble welcomed two distinguished speakers on January 21. Nadine Strossen, president of the ACLU from 1991-2008, now a professor of law at NYU, discussed her new book, HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship, and her Harvard Law classmate and longtime friend, the Honorable William Kuntz II, United States District Court Judge
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It was a standing room only crowd who gathered in Noble’s Life Long Learning Center on November 3 for an information-packed lecture on the aftermath of World War I presented by Hamish Lutris, associate professor of history at Capital Community College in Hartford. Among the interesting facts he mentioned was, that as Europe’s great empires
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A daredevil had better be lucky or he won’t last long. Cobble resident Gordon MacKenzie has been a very lucky man. The first daring thing he did wasn’t wholly his choice, but at the tender age of 19 he found himself as an Army Air Force tail gunner flying in a B-32 in the Pacific.
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G.A. Mudge took on quite a project that has taken some years to complete: cataloguing and photographing the dozens of statues, dating from 1859 to the 1990s, scattered about Central Park. He came to Noble on November 11 to share some of the fruits of his labor in an illustrated talk. Among the adornments of
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Connecticut Master Wildlife Conservationist Paul Colburn, who presented a fascinating program on black bears to a capacity crowd last April, returned to Noble on October 28 to introduce an equally large group to Connecticut’s only wild cat, the bobcat. Numbering between 1,500 to 2,000 in the state, the beautiful, tawny bobcat (Lynx rufus) with the
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Today, someone’s identity is stolen every 2.8 seconds and $40 billion is lost to scammers each year. But there are actions you can take to protect you and your family. Two crime fighting experts were at Noble on September 14 for a program entitled “The Con Artist’s Playbook” outlining the tactics these criminals use and
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Probate Judge Diane Blick spoke to an audience at Noble Horizons for one reason only: to dispel worries about the probate process. In her third term as probate judge for Litchfield County, Judge Blick, known affectionately as the “judge on wheels” due to her habit of traveling to the homes of residents who need her
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“Don’t feed the bears,” was the key point in a presentation on black bears by Paul Colburn, a Connecticut Master Wildlife Conservationist, who spoke at Noble Horizons on April 29. The large and very engaged crowd was an indication that black bears have made their presence felt, frequently in our backyards. There were 6,600 reported
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Fifteen local elementary school students and a similar number of Noble Horizons residents had the good luck to work with seasoned theater professional Michael Berkeley for several weeks to prepare for a performance of “The Golden Age of Broadway: Bridging Generations” for a very appreciative audience at Noble on April 28. It turned out to
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December 2016 saw the return of former teacher Maura Wolf to Noble for a midday poetry appreciation class. She brought together a devoted group of readers and writers from Noble and the wider community. Maura selected poems that accomplish something special, specifically, igniting a passion in the reader for the special qualities of poetic language,
