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parris J. baker, PH.D.
Jefferson Scholar-in-Residence
TRUTH IN LOVE: JEFFERSON SCHOLAR BAKER BRINGS NEW PERSPECTIVE TO ISSUES - 4/15/2022
TRUTH IN LOVE: HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY (PART TWO)- 4/26/2022
court gould, m.p.a
Sustainable Solutions Consultant
GETTING BACK TO BASICS – SMALL STUFF MATTERS IN ERIE’S COMPETITION FOR RESIDENTS - 01/21/2022
How to Put Equitable Development to Work for Erie, Pennsylvania - 12/04/2021
Erie Region Should Take Fresh Look at CBAs to Benefit Developers, Communities Alike - 06/21/2021
CARING FOR ERIE'S ECONOMY: CHILDCARE IS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- 7/23/2021
Erie's diversity is the path to prosperity: tackling the teacher-to-student mismatch- 9/24/2021
Pawel Paserbiak
Economist and Guest Writer
ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE - 3/25/22
Larry Flatley, J.D.
Jefferson Speaker
COVID-19 PANDEMIC IS A TEACHABLE MOMENT ON NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY - 04/28/2020
al Lubiejewski, J.d. & Edward Robasky
Attorney and radio host Teacher and genealogist
a look back at ERIE icons: a sanida safari - 01/14/2022
Judith Lynch, Ph.d.
Jefferson Scholar-in-Residence
ERIE’S BATTLE WITH TUBERCULOSIS: HOW IT WAS WON - 04/22/2020
FORMIDABLE ERIE COUNTY WOMEN: ELIZABETH BATTLES - 05/01/2020
MARX TOY COMPANY: BORN IN THE DEPRESSION AND KILLED BY OVERSEAS COMPETITION - 05/15/2020
America, Erie Region Celebrate Memorial Day's Message - 05/22/2020
Ainsworth to Tailored Pet Nutrition: Pluck, Resilience, and Risk-Taking - 06/16/2020
The History of Labor Day: Why We Should Celebrate the Origins and Importance - 09/07/2020
Early Women Leaders Reflect Nationwide Struggle - 10/01/2020
Women’s Political Strength Grows in Three Movements - 10/20/2020
Major Reforms Led to New County Government - 10/28/2020
More Barriers Tumbled as Savocchio Became Erie Mayor - 11/04/2020
Domitrovich Broke Judicial Glass Ceiling - 11/10/2020
Savocchio Broke One Glass Ceiling After Another - 11/17/2020
Brenda Pundt Made Mark as City Controller - 12/02/2020
David Frew, Ph.D.
Jefferson Scholar-in-Residence
ON THE WATERFRONT: Eddy Fussader: The Wealthy Barber, Bay Rat Style- 5/20/2022
On the Waterfront: How Does the Osprey Know? Earth Connections? - 04/20/2020
ON THE WATERFRONT: Pymatuning State Park: Where the Ducks Walk on the Fish - 04/29/2020
SHIP-SPOTTING 101: THINGS TO DO IN ERIE OR ELSEWHERE - 05/06/2020
THE EDMUND FITZGERALD, LIGHTFOOT, AND ME: 45th Anniversary of the Historic Shipwreck - 05/14/2020
ON THE WATERFRONT: WHERE DID LAKE ERIE'S BLUE PIKE GO? - 05/20/2020
Strong Estate: Bayfront Adventureland of the 1950s - 05/27/2020
Strange Headline from 1853: Submarine Sinks Offshore - 06/03/2020
Lake Erie Trawling: Problems with Rainbow Smelt - 06/10/2020
It's a small, small world: Crossley Net-Pullers, Fredrick Wakefield, and Tobermory - 06/17/2020
Ted Sprague: From Freeport to Carnegie Mellon, New Orleans, D-Day, and Back - 07/01/2020
Erie's Cascade Docks: An Unimaginable Transition - 07/17/2020
Salina: Old Salt Schooner Helped Win Battle of Lake Erie - 07/22/2020
Chestnut Pool: The Bay-Rat Country Club - 07/29/2020
Trinity Sunday: Don't Go Near the Water - 08/04/2020
The Gem Theater: Bay Rat High Culture - 08/12/2020
The North Channel: An Essential Field Trip - 08/19/2020
Brebner and Beckman: Ship Chandlers, Engineers, and Provisioners - 08/26/2020
Theological Underpinnings: Catholic Schools and Protestant Schools - 09/02/2020
Erie Was Once Freshwater Fishing Capital of the World - 09/09/2020
Dreamer: A Sailmaker’s Gift - 09/16/2020
Hoppy, Gene, Roy, and Mirages: Apparition or Science - 09/23/2020
ERIE’S FINNISH COMMUNITY: THE WATER PEOPLE - 09/30/2020
The Goosewood A Land Deal that Profoundly Changed Erie’s West Bayfront- 10/06/2020
Cascade Creek: Stream of Dreams - 10/23/2020
Bay Rat Athletics: Right Field Out - 10/27/2020
Cascade Creek Restoration - 11/03/2020
Bay-Rat Rhapsody: Riding the Bus to the Y - 11/11/2020
West Fourth Street Music Scene - 11/18/2020
Strong’s Pond: Mystery and Tragedy - 12/04/2020
Daniel Dobbins’ Three Favorites: Lady Washington, Salina, and Ohio - 12/08/2020
Neighborhood Bars and Clubs: Where Were Our Dads from 3:30 to 6? - 12/16/2020
Train Wars: American Flyer, Lionel, and Marx - 12/22/2020
Ozzie and Harriet Became My Academic Advisors - 12/29/2020
Crystal Set Creates a Monster: Radio Nights - 1/05/2021
The Ragman A Bay Rat Salvage Business - 1/12/2021
Finding the Forts: Schwinn Expands Our Territory - 1/26/2021
Bay Rat Refrigeration: The Iceman Cometh (With Apologies to Eugene O’Neil) - 2/02/2021
The Hardy Boys: Bay Rat Literature - 2/09/2021
The Mercer Boys: Psychological Roots of a Dream - 2/16/2021
mister peanut: annual neighborhood visitor - 2/23/2021
the park fountain: Perry Square Offers Free Family Fun - 3/2/2021
Air raids and bomb shelters: ‘Wholesome’ Childhood Images and Bad Dreams from the 1950s - 3/9/2021
Straight Arrow Cards: Bay Rats and Shredded Wheat - 3/16/2021
Gazing North from the Bluffs: Remembering Some Favorite Brantford Indians - 3/23/2021
The jewel tea man: bay rats had their own amazon prime, Starbucks - 3/30/2021
Bay Rat Marketing: Pour a Koehler Collar - 4/6/2021
Bay Rat Road Trips: Take Me Out to the Ball Game - 4/13/2021
The Tinker: Our Regular Neighborhood Visitor - 4/20/2021
The Fuller Brush Man Bay Rat Cleaning Tools - 4/28/2021
Field of American Dreams: From Italy to Baseball - 5/4/2021
THE DAY THE SUN DIED: SEPTEMBER 1950, ERIE’S PRO FOOTBALL TEAM, AND DOOMSDAY THEOLOGY - 6/1/2021
The Bello Family, Sailors’ Inn, and Spanish Flu - 6/8/2021
Boarders: A Bay-Rat Neighborhood Phenomenon - 6/15/2021
Frew Family Connections and Roots From Wilmington, Delaware to Erie's West Fourth Street - 6/22/2021
Bugging State Street: An Erie Rite of Passage - 6/29/2021
AMAZING ARMENIAN NEIGHBOR: DEAD FISH, CHICKEN FEATHERS, AND BUNNY POOP - 7/07/2021
Old friends?: niagara, Michigan, and a random frigate - 7/21/2021
Connections and Inspiration: From West Fourth Street to Polk State and L'Arche - 7/28/21
Slick sleeve: bay rat hygiene lessons - 8/4/21
zip codes & destiny: The west sixth street bridge - 8/11/21
DDT and me: my mother should have known rachel carson - 8/18/21
pool, booze, cards: remembering the modica social club - 8/25/21
legacy of the tannenbaums: from the ragman to erie's skyscrapers to paca building - 9/1/21
back to the birds: presque isle's ospreys- 9/8/21
BAy rat holiday shopping: remembering Erie's 5 & 10 cent stores- 9/15/21
ethnic enclaves: westerdahl's Swedish STORE- 9/22/21
bay rat fashion accessories: shopping at the army surplus STORE- 9/29/21
the cormorant: erie's newcomer shorebird- 10/6/21
BAY RAT social media: rotary phones and party lines- 10/13/21
WARNING SIGNS: SPECIAL BAY RAT INVITATIONS- 10/20/21
CLASSIC RE-RUN: ERIE WAS ONCE FRESHWATER FISHING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD- 11/3/21
CLASSIC RE-RUN: STRONG ESTATE: BAYFRONT ADVENTURELAND OF THE 1950s- 11/10/21
TWO KINDS OF HOTELS AND ACTIVE BAY RAT IMAGINATIONS- 11/17/21
HORSE HEROES: COMINGS, GOINGS, BERINGIA, AND CLIMATE CHANGE- 12/1/21
TARZAN SWINGS: RISKING LIFE AND LIMB AT THE BLUFFS- 12/8/21
CASCADE PARK CLUB: GHOSTS, MEMORIES, EMPLOYMENT, AND COLLEGE- 12/15/21
OLLIE AND THELMA BROWN: COUNTRY MUSIC, LOTS OF CHILDREN, AND A COMMUNIST PLOT- 12/22/21
WELDING: NEIGHBORHOOD ALCHEMY, BAYFRONT DEVELOPMENT, AND SOCCER- 12/29/21
WHO MOVED OUR CREEK?: A BAY RAT HISTORY MYSTERY- 1/5/22
BAY RATS GAINED EARLY EDUCATION ON SPORTS FISHING- 1/12/22
HOLY CITY: CHARLESTON, S.C. OR ERIE, P.A.- 1/19/22
‘I Led Two Lives’: Confessions of a Bay Rat Heretic - 1/26/22
Horsing Around: William Scott’s Racetrack in the Wilderness - 2/2/22
THE BIG CHILL: A NEIGHBORHOOD GLACIER? - 2/16/22
COMMUNIST MUSIC: OUR PARENTS TRIED TO WARN US- 2/23/22
WATCHING WATER: BEFORE MINDFULNESS THERE WAS THE BAY- 3/2/22
CROONING: MUSIC WE WERE SUPPOSED TO LIKE- 3/9/22
Bay Rat Sweet Tooth Embraces Neighborhood Candy - 3/17/22
Felizardos Store Rotting Young Minds - 3/23/22
BAY RAT SHORT CUTS: THE AMERICAN ALLEYWAY - 3/30/22
GIRLS VERSUS BOYS: WORD PUZZLES AND CHOCOLATE CAKE - 4/6/22
THE ORPHANAGE: A NEIGHBORHOOD ENIGMA - 4/13/22
OUR BIGGEST FRIENDS: NEIGHBORHOOD TREES - 4/20/22
GHOSTS OF HOTELS, EXCURSION SHIPS, AND DANCEHALLS - 4/27/22
POWER OF STORYTELLING: A GRANDMOTHER'S GIFT- 5/4/22
GRIDLEY PARK: BAY RAT RETREAT WITH DOSE OF NAVAL HISTORY- 5/11/22
baher ghosheh, ph.d.
Jefferson Scholar-in-Residence
CAN NEW AMERICANS REVERSE ERIE’S POPULATION DECLINE? - 01/28/2022
tanya teglo, b.a.
Writer and Researcher
Blues & Jazz Musical Evolution and Social Revolution - 2/4/22
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: DISC JOCKEYS PLAY CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE- 2/11/22
KING ARREST THRUST POLICE BRUTALITY INTO SPOTLIGHT- 2/18/22
THE STORY OF AMADOU DIALLO- 2/25/22
Pat Cuneo, B.A.
Jefferson Publications Coordinator
1918 FLU EPIDEMIC STRUCK ERIE, NATION, WORLD - 03/26/2020
ERIE BUSINESSES AND COVID-19 - 04/14/2020
Global summit xii week one report - 05/15/2020
GLOBAL SUMMIT XIII RETROSPECTIVE - 11/19/2021
Jackson Janes, Ph.d.
Jefferson Global Summit IX Presenter
and Distinguished Visiting Speaker
Report from Europe: Impact and Reactions to COVID-19 - 04/06/2020
Rev. Dr. Charles Brock
Brock Institute for Mega Issues
BERNIE, JOE, and DONALD on RELIGION and POLITICS - 04/07/2020
Mystics for Skeptics - 04/21/2020
FRANCIS OF ASSISI: PATRON SAINT OF ECOLOGY - 04/28/2020
Bernard of Clairvaux: Mystical Interpreter of Love - 05/05/2020
Plato on Love and Mysticism - 05/12/2020
Mystics for Skeptics - Dalai Lama: A Mystic and Saint - 06/02/2020
Mystics for Skeptics On Trump, Mysticism, and the Power of Positive Thinking - 06/09/2020
Moses: The Mystic Prophet Like No Other - 06/23/2020
Jesus: Fulfilling the Mission of God - 06/30/2020
VISIONARY J.S. BACH PAINTED IN MUSIC AND RELIGION - 07/28/2020
Lao-Tse: 'When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be' - 08/05/2020
Mysticism of Buddha: Finding Nirvana Can Be Goal for the World - 08/11/2020
Poetry of Hafiz Resonates More Than 600 Years Later - 08/18/2020
Mysticism of Tutu: Tutu Works to Make Sure Faith Affects People, Politics - 08/25/2020
Lincoln’s Mysticism: He tried to link his will with God’s - 09/01/2020
D.H. Lawrence: Get Cracking with your Definition of God - 09/08/2020
John Adams: One of Few Presidents Open to Other Religions - 09/15/2020
Smarsh would not have made it without her ghost - 09/22/2020
Mysticism, Politics Are Central to Great American Hymns - 09/29/2020
Foreign Policy, American Narrative Linked - Part One - 10/14/2020
Foreign policy: The point is not just to compromise, but to appreciate others Part Two - 10/20/2020
mystics for skeptics: Jefferson and lincoln on good friday- 3/31/2021
MYSTICS for SKEPTICS: John Brown – Puritan Mystic - 6/30/2021
George W. Bush Remarks on 9/11 and 1/6 Enlighten National Conversation - 9/22/2021
RELIGION AND POLITICS: WASHINGTON, LINCOLN, AND THE POWER OF PROVIDENTIAL DEISM- 2/28/22
Is Ukraine Invasion a Holy War - 3/28/22
CULTURE WARS RAGE: A LOOK AT KEYS TO THE NEXT ELECTIONS - 4/4/22
MYSTICS AND SKEPTICS: PALM SUNDAY AND THE MISSION OF CHRIST - 4/8/22
CULTURE WARS KEY TO ELECTIONS: INFLUENCE PEDDLERS, CONGRESS STYMIE CLIMATE CHANGE SOLUTIONS- 4/11/22
