R: This House Prefers the Heartland to New England

Thursday, November 11th, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. in the Morse Gallery

Albert Bierstadt, The Last of the Buffalo, 1888, oil on canvas, 180.3 x 301 cm, National Gallery of Art, District of Columbia, https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.124525.html.

Join us for a jovial debate on American character. Do the flat plains of the breadbasket build virtue? Can we still look to New England for Puritan work ethic, small town community, and Federalist spirit? Or shall we shun both for the sunny South?