Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series – Helena D. Lewis

Kirby Hall Salon 202 S River Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA, United States

Helena D. Lewis is an award-winning actress, poet and playwright whose one-person show, Call Me Crazy: Diary of a Mad Social Worker, earned multiple theater accolades, including the AUDELCO Best Solo-Performance Award. A licensed social worker with a doctorate from Rutgers, she is the substance abuse treatment director for a…

Kimball Lecture Series – Hazel Barton, PhD

Stark Learning Center Lecture Hall (Room 105) 150 S River St, Wilkes-Barre, PA, United States

Hazel Barton, Loper Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama, will present this year’s Grace Kimball Memorial Lecture, “Cave Microbiology: It’s Wild Down There,” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 2, in Stark Learning Center 105. The lecture is free and open to the public.  Caves, by their…

Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series – George Saunders

Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts 239 S River St., Wilkes-Barre, PA, United States

George Saunders is the author of twelve books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the 2017 Man Booker Prize, and Tenth of December, a National Book Award finalist and winner of the Folio and Story Prizes. A MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow, he has taught in Syracuse University’s Creative Writing…