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The six-banner traveling exhibition, Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Early America, uses George Washington’s Mount Vernon as a specific example of how meals reveal how power is exchanged between and among different peoples, races, genders, and classes. This exhibition was produced by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health with research assistance provided by the staff at The Washington Library at George Washington’s Mount Vernon.

Sherry Sipho, TCC Culinary Arts, will share the history of the tea cake, a traditional African American cookie featured at many family gatherings and celebrations, while she demonstrates how to make them. Come make some new memories with us! 

It is estimated that more than 70,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2017 alone. Join us as we view Addiction, an episode of PBS's NOVA series, that looks at the current opioid crisis, how drugs alters the brain and the body, and how communities might address addiction. John Malek-Ahmadi, TCC associate professor sociology, will lead a discussion about addiction in America. 

What makes a monster? Novelist Yvonne Jocks, TCC Instructor of English, will reveal the youth, rebellion, and passions that created a new kind of creature one dark and stormy night in 1816. Explore the impact of mad scientists, the undead, and even romantic vampires. Attendees will also receive a sneak preview of the Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature exhibition, developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. 

This six-banner traveling exhibition explores the Birth of Frankenstein, the life of author Mary Shelley, the scientific search for the principle of life, and the transformation of the “monster” in popular culture.

On a dark and stormy night in 1816, Mary Shelley began writing a story that posed profound questions about individual and societal responsibility for other people. To make her point, the young novelist used the scientific advances of her era and the controversies surrounding them as a metaphor for issues of unchecked power and self-serving ambition, and their effect on the human community. Since that time, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus has become one of the Western world’s most enduring myths. The story provides a framework for discussions of medical advances that challenge our traditional understanding of what it means to be human.

This exhibition was developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.