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!

 

Ukraine: Why Should We Care?
with speaker Marta Hulievska

Marta Hulievska

Thursday, December 14
11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Jesse's Restaurant, Lebanon, NH

REGISTER:
$35 per member
$45 per non-member

Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine broke out in 2022, the support for Ukraine has been bipartisan. A year and a half in, different narratives emerge: is it better to promote peace through coercing Ukraine into giving up its territories? As a Ukrainian student in the US, my entire life since February 24th has been revolving around my country. In this lecture, I want to share my experience as a Ukrainian in the States, and tell the story of my family still in Ukraine. At Dartmouth, I encountered both big volumes of support and strange encounters with those of the opposite views. As someone who studies History, I will also share some curious Ukraine facts that explain what is happening now, what is the distinction between Eastern and Western Ukrainians, Ukrainian and Russian speakers, and how Ukrainians think about war, Russia, Russians, and democracy.

Marta Hulievska was born and raised in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine until she arrived to the States in 2021 as a freshman at Dartmouth College. Before, she was a social activist in Ukraine. Now she is a third-year student majoring in History and minoring in English, interned in Freedom House and Democratic Erosion Consortium. She is a finalist of Ukraine Global Scholars, an organization that supports low-income Ukrainians applying to top universities in the U.S.

When you arrive at Jesse's, you'll be asked for your meal preference from one of the four selections below. Your meal also includes coffee, tea, or soda as beverage options. Other selections (appetizers, wine, etc.) are your own responsibility.

MEAL OPTIONS:

  • Baked Haddock with organic brown rice
  • Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad
  • Steak & Cheese (Jesse's version of a Philly Cheesesteak) with Steakhouse Fries
  • Pesto Linguine

 

The Derwent Valley, England, Where the Industrialization of America Began
with speaker Martin Jeffries

Martin Jeffries

Wednesday, January 17
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Jesse's Restaurant, Lebanon, NH

REGISTER:
$35 per member
$45 per non-member
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In 1835, Samuel Slater of Webster, MA, died a millionaire (worth ca. $40 million today) and part owner of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company (AMC), incorporated just four years earlier in Manchester, NH. Slater had come a very long way since he was born in 1768 into a farming family in Belper, Derbyshire, England, where he later served a six-year apprenticeship in one of the earliest water-powered cotton spinning mills. Slater’s “owner” was Jedediah Strutt, a business partner of Richard Arkwright, who is credited with inventing the water-powered spinning frame and operating it on an industrial scale by an organized workforce in the Cromford Mill, eight miles north of Belper. Slater emigrated to the United States in 1789 and one year later built the first water-powered spinning frame in America from memory alone, all contrary to British law. “Slater the Traitor”, as he was known by the British, became a cotton mill owner and industrialist who developed the Rhode Island System of workforce organization and manufacturing. This in turn inspired the Waltham/Lowell System of vertical integration and “Mill Girls” in the mills of Waltham, Lowell & Lawrence, MA, and the AMC in Manchester, NH.

MEAL OPTIONS:

  • Baked Haddock with organic brown rice
  • Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad
  • Steak & Cheese (Jesse's version of a Philly Cheesesteak) with Steakhouse Fries
  • Pesto Linguine
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