Hot Plates, Hot Topics

Our Hot Plates series offers attendees a chance to enjoy a delicious lunch and a presentation by a knowledgeable speaker. Each session features a new speaker and topic. Past locations have included Jesse's Restaurant and Salt Hill Pub in Lebanon, NH. Scroll down for our upcoming sessions!

Every Hot Plates session follows a similar agenda. Prior to the date of the event, Osher staff will contact each registrant for your meal choice.

Agenda:
11:45 AM: Check in and choose your meal
12:00 PM: Presentation
12:50 PM: Lunch
1:30 PM: Presentation resumes/Q&A

Choices for your meal:  
- Baked Haddock with organic brown rice
- Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad
- Steak & Cheese (Jesse's version of a Philly Cheese steak) with steakhouse fries
- Pesto Linguine

Your meal includes your choice of a fountain drink, coffee, iced tea, or lemonade.

Registration fees for these events are non-refundable. 

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Tariffs, From Bretton Woods to Today to Tomorrow... 

Thursday, January 15, 2026
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Jesse's Restaurant
Hanover, NH 03755

Register:
$38 per Osher at Dartmouth member
$48 per non-member
(price includes lecture and meal)

Join us for a lecture that focuses on both the history and the future of tariffs. This presentation will be bipartisan in nature, as we focus on historical stories and lessons to bring to light the nuances of trade and tariffs. The goal of this presentation is to educate you in a fun and engaging way so that you gain confidence in your ability to think through our currently changing tariff policies and their implications in our current global economy.  

We are hopeful that your  confidence and understanding of tariffs increases after this Hot Plates, Hot Topics session, enabling you to better explain to your peers the purpose and the goals of today's tariffs, as well as their impact on society. 

Dan Cunningham is working to restore sustainable long-term 3% growth (meaning longer, healthier, and better lives) for ALL Americans. He is a Graduate & Fellow of Harvard University. He is CEO of The Long-Stanton Group, a manufacturer for the aviation and hospital sectors, founded in 1835 in Cincinnati. Awards won include Family Business of the Decade. He founder of the Cunningham Institute for Growth™, and is Chorister of the Harvard Club of Cincinnati.  

Mr. Cunningham is a persuasive public speaker and fireside chat interviewer for large and small audiences. To support his work to restore 3% long-term U.S. economic growth for ALL Americans, he is an avid student of the economics/effectiveness/fairness of global trade, healthcare, financial services, and how market-based electricity is regulated. Dan and his wife Dr. Margie have two adult children and four grandchildren. They divide their time between Hanover, New Hampshire, and Cincinnati, Ohio.

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William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth: A Life

Friday, February 27
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Jesse's Restaurant
Hanover, NH 03755

Register:
$38 per Osher at Dartmouth member
$48 per non-member
(price includes lecture and meal)

Have you ever wondered about the origin of “Dartmouth” in Dartmouth College? The college was named after William Legge, the 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, when it was created by Royal Charter issued by Governor John Wentworth in December 1769. This surprised Lord Dartmouth, as his name was used without permission and, worse, it was associated with a fraud. He was not amused and he never forgave. This talk will begin with an explanation of the college’s fraudulent beginning and then turn to the life and times of Lord Dartmouth. Topics to be covered include: a brief family history, including the origin of the aristocratic title; Lord Dartmouth’s education and Grand Tour of Europe with his stepbrother Frederick North (later Lord North, the Prime Minister “who lost America”); his marriage into money, which financed his philanthropy and London real estate development; his Low Church Anglicanism/Methodism; and his service as a senior British government official in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War. 

Martin Jeffries has lived in West Lebanon since 2018 and has been a member of Osher at Dartmouth since 2021. A career polar scientist, he has presented Osher courses about the Arctic and Antarctica, but prefers to develop courses on topics outside his professional and career expertise. His favourite topics are the industrial revolution, textile manufacturing and workforce housing in New England and (Old) England. Now retired, he enjoys the rail trails, creating a pollinator-friendly garden of native plants, and exploring New England to gather ideas and material for future Osher courses.