Here are some interesting events everyone in the community can enjoy in the next week....
CC@H Guest Speaker: Ambassador Elizabeth Davenport McKune on "A Closer Look at the Arabian Gulf"
Friday, Dec. 10 at 1 to 2 p.m.
Ambassador Elizabeth Davenport McKune, former U.S. Ambassador to the State of Qatar (1998-2001) and an expert on the Persian Gulf, will speak about challenges in the Arabian Gulf. She was the first female ambassador from any country accredited to Qatar in this capacity. Qatar has played a unique role as a neighbor of Saudi Arabia in the Gulf region. It has coordinated with the U.S on a range of regional and global issues related to security and stability in the region, as well as serving as an intermediary between the U.S. and Afghanistan.
During her 33 years as a career Foreign Service officer, Ambassador McKune spent 17 years abroad with postings including Israel, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, the Sultanate of Oman, Iraq and Great Britain. Stateside she held a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State position as Deputy Executive Secretary. Other senior positions included Director of the Office of Northern Arabian Affairs, Director of the Office of Pacific Island Affairs, Director of the Media Outreach Center, and International Affairs Advisor to the Commandant of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF). Following the State Department, Liz became the Executive Director of the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center from 2007-2011. Part of Chevy Chase At Home's Guest Speaker Series.
Register in advance on Chevy Chase At Home's event page.
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Travels with Jan: Patagonia and Rapa Nui
Ambassador Elizabeth Davenport McKune, former U.S. Ambassador to the State of Qatar (1998-2001) and an expert on the Persian Gulf, will speak about challenges in the Arabian Gulf. She was the first female ambassador from any country accredited to Qatar in this capacity. Qatar has played a unique role as a neighbor of Saudi Arabia in the Gulf region. It has coordinated with the U.S on a range of regional and global issues related to security and stability in the region, as well as serving as an intermediary between the U.S. and Afghanistan.
During her 33 years as a career Foreign Service officer, Ambassador McKune spent 17 years abroad with postings including Israel, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, the Sultanate of Oman, Iraq and Great Britain. Stateside she held a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State position as Deputy Executive Secretary. Other senior positions included Director of the Office of Northern Arabian Affairs, Director of the Office of Pacific Island Affairs, Director of the Media Outreach Center, and International Affairs Advisor to the Commandant of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF). Following the State Department, Liz became the Executive Director of the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center from 2007-2011. Part of Chevy Chase At Home's Guest Speaker Series.
Register in advance on Chevy Chase At Home's event page.
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Travels with Jan: Patagonia and Rapa Nui
Monday, Dec. 6 at 1 to 2 p.m.
Join intrepid traveler and CC@H volunteer Jan Augustine as she relives some of her most memorable trips in a series of Zoom presentations. This month she will take us to South America, sharing photos from Patagonia and Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Hosted by Chevy Chase At Home.
Register in advance on Chevy Chase At Home's event page.
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Human Bondage and Georgetown’s Early Wealth
Join intrepid traveler and CC@H volunteer Jan Augustine as she relives some of her most memorable trips in a series of Zoom presentations. This month she will take us to South America, sharing photos from Patagonia and Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Hosted by Chevy Chase At Home.
Register in advance on Chevy Chase At Home's event page.
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Human Bondage and Georgetown’s Early Wealth
Tuesday, Dec. 7 at 2 to 3 p.m.
Early Georgetown was not the polite society conjured by books like The Georgetown Ladies’ Social Club. Rather, it was built in part from trafficking in human beings – African slaves and British convicts and indentured servants – and from their labor. For instance, in 1805, Francis Lowndes, the son of a trafficker in humans, sold to Robert Peter the 8 ½ acre tract now known as Tudor Place for the seemingly princely sum of $6,000, but Peter had the money as evidenced by his selling inherited family slaves for $100,000 a few years later. Jim Johnston leads you on a tour of the real history of an early Georgetown that was diverse in the extreme with homes of fantastic wealth and hovels of abject poverty. Hosted by Montgomery History.
Register in advance on this Zoom webinar page.
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Early Georgetown was not the polite society conjured by books like The Georgetown Ladies’ Social Club. Rather, it was built in part from trafficking in human beings – African slaves and British convicts and indentured servants – and from their labor. For instance, in 1805, Francis Lowndes, the son of a trafficker in humans, sold to Robert Peter the 8 ½ acre tract now known as Tudor Place for the seemingly princely sum of $6,000, but Peter had the money as evidenced by his selling inherited family slaves for $100,000 a few years later. Jim Johnston leads you on a tour of the real history of an early Georgetown that was diverse in the extreme with homes of fantastic wealth and hovels of abject poverty. Hosted by Montgomery History.
Register in advance on this Zoom webinar page.
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