Each fall, EHST has a meeting of members, friends, and visitors to discuss what has transpired (good, bad, and ugly) for the society this year, and what looms ahead for 2022.  Additionally our programs, budget, board activity, and needs are reviewed during the meeting.  Questions are encouraged, which we will attempt to answer, to allow […]

Jay Niver, editor of the quarterly Final Exit Network magazine, will speak about the Final Exit Network's recent news.  Final Exit is a voluntary service which enables and empowers individuals to make end of life choices with dignity in peace.  Mr. Niver has been active in his support of the network for many years, and […]

John Holmgren will review the most important findings in the book Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment.  From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the coauthor of Nudge, a revolutionary exploration of why people make bad judgments and how to make better ones--"a tour de force” (New York Times). In Noise, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass […]

Jim Buie, a resident of Fearrington and UNC Journalism School grad, will lead us in a discussion of culture shocks. He spent nearly nine years living and teaching in the Middle East -- first in Turkey for two years, and then in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He returned in 2018 to Alamance County, where […]

Texas' recent legislative session sent shock waves across the nation as they passed laws to limit women's health care, remove restrictions on openly carrying handguns, and privilege a religious freedom that places public health and human rights at risk.  As the culture wars in Texas grabbed national attention, the fundamentals of our American democracy were […]