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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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.