Civic,Education,Lecture

What: Genesee Community College’s 50th Anniversary with Special Lecture by Heather Ann Thompson, Ph.D. When: Tuesday, Sept. 12 7 p.m. Where: Room T102, Conable Technology Building, Genesee Community College, One College Road, Batavia Who: College Community, Special Guests and Visitors Background: Attica State Prison is part of GCC’s history with inmate education a part of its programming in the 1980s. Thompson’s book provides a definitive account of the prison uprising in 1971.

The Stafford Historical Society’s Monthly Meeting is honored to have Genesee County Historian, Michael Eula, Ph.D., to speak at its May 25 program in the Town Hall Court Room, at 7 p.m. His presentation will be: “Does History Matter? Searching for the Past and the Future of our Nation.” In a shortened description of his program, Eula explains that “Spending time with the past helps us to understand where we are and how we arrived there. How that history has played out in Genesee County-and by implication our nation as a whole-is the focus of our discussion….”