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The accounts of Wednesday Night Salons in chronological order appear below. The task of archiving them is on-going . As stated elsewhere, it was not until the early 90s that we began to keep weekly records of discussions, therefore, there are, unfortunately, major gaps in the earlier chronicles.
Most, but not all, accounts until 2014 were written by our Scribe, Herb Bercovitz, and edited as required, by Diana, however a number of other Wednesday Nighters also contributed their note-keeping talents on occasions when Herb was absent. Since Herb was no longer up to the task, the entries for Wednesday Night consist only of the “Prologues”. Chatham House rules prevail!

Wednesday Night #1537
August 17, 2011, 1 Comment

Brian Morel introduced his good friend Jean-Louis Thémis, chef cuisinier at the Quebec Tourism and Hotel Institute (yes ...

Wednesday Night #1536
August 10, 2011, 4 Comments

It was a great pleasure to have John Evdokias introduce his wife, Dominique Beauchamp, who, despite her youthful appeara ...

Wednesday Night #1535
August 3, 2011, 3 Comments

It’s pretty scary out there. If you look at the historical data, every single time that growth has dipped below 2% ...

Wednesday Night #1534
July 27, 2011, 2 Comments

The difference between the optimist and the pessimist is the pessimist has a little more information The Scribe’s ...

Wednesday Night #1533
July 20, 2011, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1533

The Prologue Maureen Farrow‘s appearance this Wednesday could not be more timely; we eagerly await her world view. ...

Wednesday Night #1532
July 13, 2011, 2 Comments

The Scribe’s Prologue Political summer theatre has come to Washington and Strasbourg; the drama unfolds using such ...

Wednesday Night #1531
July 6, 2011, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1531

“We aren’t going to get innovative ideas out of the present system – hence the idea of a public salon. ...

Wednesday Night #1530
June 29, 2011, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1530

Scribe’s Prologue The Hudson’s Bay Company in the seventeenth century, dealing largely with fur traders in t ...

Wednesday Night #1528
June 15, 2011, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1528

Our special guest, Flora Igoki Terah of Kenya, made this an exceptional and riveting evening. Flora’s intensely pe ...

Wednesday Night #1527
June 8, 2011, 1 Comment

 Despite the seriousness of the principal topic, the evening’s debate was filled with laughter. See Wednesday-Nig ...

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