Please join us as Barry Kraft, former OSF actor and lecturer, current Rogue Theater Company gadfly and Shakespeare scholar explores with us his thoughts on human divisiveness — especially that abrasiveness seemingly interwoven into the very fabric of partisan politics.
Almost 250 years after the crafting of the Declaration of Independence, we will consider what two important Founding Fathers might think of our current political situation Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were friends, bitter political rivals, then friends again. Their thoughts about political partisanship and its pitfalls are brilliantly illuminated in letters they exchanged from 1812 until they both died on the 4th of July, 1826.

This event is part of the Salon series of The Jefferson Center, a Rogue Valley non-profit focused on critical thinking using secular humanist values to understand and engage with issues important to our community. See http://www.thejeffcenter.org for more details on this and other events.