The Mount offers a variety of programs and events, some are online and some are on-site. Below you can view our full calendar, or filter your results by choosing a category such as online or families. To view past, recorded programs, click here.
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Summer Lightning & Roberta Silman
Jun 9 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Lectures & Discussions On-site
This sweeping multi-generational novel explores the meaning of Alexander Herzen’s observation that art and the summer lightning of individual happiness are “the only real goods we have.” Meet local author[...]
Hernan Diaz & Trust
Jun 23 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Lectures & Discussions On-site
June 23, 6 pm: At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, Hernan Diaz in Trust, winner of a 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, engages the reader in[...]
30th Year Celebration: Wharton Panel
Jun 30 @ 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm Lectures & Discussions On-site
Friday, June 30, 4 pm – Wharton Panel: Wharton specialists and literary experts Jennifer Haytock, Sheila Liming, and Nathan Wolff share their views on why Edith Wharton’s writings remain relevant[...]
30th Year Celebration: Women Panel
Jul 1 @ 11:00 am – 12:15 pm Lectures & Discussions On-site
Saturday, July 1, 11 am – Women Panel: Sylvia Plath, Louisa May Alcott, and Gertrude Stein authorities Heather Clark, John T. Matteson, and Barbara Will compare notes on the challenge[...]
30th Year Celebration: War Panel
Jul 1 @ 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm Lectures & Discussions On-site
Saturday, July 1, 2 pm – War Panel: Washington Post columnist Max Boot, international affairs correspondent Anne Nelson, and New York Times contributor Ted Widmer share their war-reporting experiences and[...]
Simon Winchester
Jul 7 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Lectures & Discussions On-site
Join author André Bernard, vice president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, in conversation with three masters of the nonfiction narrative, all unquestionably at the top of their literary[...]
Mariah Fredericks & The Lindbergh Nanny
Jul 21 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Lectures & Discussions On-site
July 21, 6 pm: Mariah Fredericks’s The Lindbergh Nanny is a powerful, propulsive novel about America’s most notorious kidnapping through the eyes of the woman who found herself at the[...]
David Michaelis
Jul 28 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Lectures & Discussions On-site
July 28, 4 pm: David Michaelis, author of six books, including the national bestsellers N.C. Wyeth, Schulz and Peanuts, and, most recently, Eleanor, a breakthrough portrait of America’s longest-serving First[...]
Stacy Schiff
Aug 11 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Lectures & Discussions On-site
August 11, 4 pm: Stacy Schiff, hailed as “perhaps the most seductive writer of nonfiction prose in America,” her six biographies include Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the 2000[...]
Claire McMillan & Alchemy of a Blackbird
Aug 18 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Lectures & Discussions On-site
August 18, 6 pm: In Claire McMillan’s Alchemy of a Blackbird, she reimagines the dynamic female friendship that became an artistic collaboration between two giants of the art world and[...]
Jane Godshalk: Floral Design Through the Ages
Sep 13 @ 11:00 am – 12:15 pm Lectures & Discussions On-site
Join Jane Godshalk, an internationally acclaimed floral designer and teacher, Artistic Judge for the Garden Club of America, and a Certified Evaluator for the American Institute of Floral Design, for[...]
The Mount Book Club
Jan 25 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Lectures & Discussions Online
Join us online for lively discussions of Edith Wharton’s acclaimed works. This year we have selected The Valley of Decision, Ethan Frome, The Reef, and The Children. Books can be[...]
The Mount Book Club
Feb 15 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Lectures & Discussions Online
Join us online for lively discussions of Edith Wharton’s acclaimed works. This year we have selected The Valley of Decision, Ethan Frome, The Reef, and The Children. Books can be[...]
The Mount Book Club
Mar 21 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Lectures & Discussions Online
Join us online for lively discussions of Edith Wharton’s acclaimed works. This year we have selected The Valley of Decision, Ethan Frome, The Reef, and The Children. Books can be[...]
The Mount Book Club
Apr 18 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Lectures & Discussions Online
Join us online for lively discussions of Edith Wharton’s acclaimed works. This year we have selected The Valley of Decision, Ethan Frome, The Reef, and The Children. Books can be[...]
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