Tues., Dec. 15, 6 p.m.  Members-only Annual Dinner.  Liza Donnelly, cartoonist, and writer with New Yorker and Forbes.com and Cultural Envoy for the U.S. State Department, specializing in politics and women’s rights.  American Bounty Rm., Culinary Institute of America, and Eco-Lab Theater. Please register for this event here. Thank you.

Mon., Nov. 16, 7-8:30.  Facilitator:  Dr. Andrew Reiser, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Dutchess and President of the World Affairs Council of the Mid-Hudson Valley.  Great Decisions discussions are a collaboration with the Poughkeepsie Public Library District and are held at the Boardman Road Branch Library.

Mon. Nov. 2, 7 p.m.  Carlos Eire, T. Lawrence Riggs Professor of History & Religious Studies, Yale University and prize-winning author of Waiting for Snow in Havana and Learning to Die in Miami.  The Honors Center at College Hall, SUNY New Paltz.  Parking in the Main Lot on Rte. 32, Lot 28.