DECEMBER PROGRAMS
Monday Quarterback Luncheon
December 1 from 12:30pm to 2pm
Patrick Keough is our Quarterback.
Thursday Luncheon Roundtable
December 4 from 12:30pm to 2pm
Speaker is Peter Conn. His topic ‒ American Photography and Painting in the 1930s.
Peter offers a survey of American photography and painting in the 1930s, encompassing a wide variety of subjects: the Depression and Dust Bowl, racial and political protest, popular entertainment, city life, portraits, Midwestern landscapes, fashion, and more. The images illustrate the diverse genres of visual culture that were employed in the decade: documentary, regionalism, social realism, precisionism, and a dollop of modernism.
Monday Quarterback Luncheon
December 8 from 12:30pm to 2pm
Leslie Whipkey is our Quarterback.
Thursday Luncheon Roundtable
December 11 from 12:30pm to 2pm
Speaker is Charlene Mires. Her topic ‒ Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First Century.
On the cusp of the nation’s 250th anniversary, a landmark history of Philadelphia in its many dimensions ‒ regional, national, and international ‒ the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia has just arrived. Charlene Mires, who led this major venture for University of Pennsylvania Press, traces its development from a long-term online community resource to three volumes moving through the eighteenth to the twenty-first century ‒ The Greater Philadelphia Region, Greater Philadelphia and the Nation, and Greater Philadelphia and the World.
The product of a deeply collaborative effort among scholars, institutions, cultural organizations, and funders, the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia explores the region’s foundational contributions to the nation’s history as well as the ways it has shaped and been shaped by the modern world.
Charlene Mires is Professor Emerita of History at Rutgers University. As director of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden from 2010 to 2024, she led the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia project in collaboration with scholars across the region. For this new history, she co-edited the second volume, Greater Philadelphia and the Nation. She is the author of Independence Hall in American Memory (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), which will be reissued with a new preface in 2026, and Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations (New York University Press, 2015.)
Monday Quarterback Luncheon
December 15 from 12:30pm to 2pm
Franklyn Rodgers is our Quarterback.
Friday Holiday Luncheon
December 19 at 11:30am
Start your Holiday at the Inn at our annual Holiday Lunch. The day begins with Fish House Punch – a Philadelphia tradition! Followed by a festive lunch.
December 20 through January 4
HOLIDAY RECESS
The Franklin Inn Club reopens on Monday, January 5th for Quarterback Luncheon