The Mather Legacy Directed by Tim Smith and narrated by Scott Pelley, this short film is a powerful tribute to both the Mather family and the enduring American spirit. Spanning nearly four centuries and interviewing experts in American history, The Mather Legacy chronicles the family’s …
Global Oil and Gas Market Steve Villas analyzes the global oil market, highlighting that while the United States leads global production at over 13 million barrels per day due to horizontal drilling and hydrofracking, it remains reliant on imports due to domestic demand and refinery setups. The …
The Medium is the Mirror Tim Love and The Honorable Richard Gephardt come to Darien to discuss Tim’s award winning book and former Congressman Gephardt’s bipartisan, Council For Responsible Social Media. In The Medium is the Mirror, marketing veteran Tim Love warns that unregulated digital …
Kevin Coupe – Getting A Grip On Grocery: The Local, The Global, & The Cutthroat Drawing from over four decades of industry experience, Coupe offered a lively, humor-infused look at the past, present, and future of the U.S. food retail market. Coupe opened with sharp wit, reflecting on how …
Summary of Mike Chinoy and Kathi Zellweger’s Presentation Journalist Mike Chinoy and Swiss humanitarian worker Kathi Zellweger presented a unique, human-centric overview of North Korea to the Darien Men’s Association on September 23, 2026. Their collaborative work and …- The room is not available due to a DCA event.…
A Voyage Around America: Joern Repenning’s Great Loop Adventure In his presentations to the DMA, Joern Repenning delivered a detailed, firsthand narrative of completing the Great Loop, an almost 6,000-nautical-mile circumnavigation by water of the Eastern United States and Canada. Rather than …
Men’s Health After 65: What to Do and What to Skip Core Philosophy Dr. Morel, an internist with 30 years of practice, emphasizes that while living a long-life matters, the primary goal of medicine should be maintaining an individual’s overall quality of life. He highlights that medical …
Ed Hynes’s presentation examines the largely overlooked naval and irregular warfare conducted on Long Island Sound during the American Revolution. Drawing on local records and Kimberly Goodling’s 2021 doctoral dissertation, Hynes argues that privateers played a far more important role in the …
Theodore Roosevelt was a uniquely gifted figure. While he employed his abilities to rise from an unknown New York legislator to become the youngest man ever to assume the presidency in 1901, that rapid success would not have occurred without the assistance of the powerful New Englander, Senator …
Tony James is an internationally recognized investor and leader in global finance, having served for many years as president and chief operating officer of The Blackstone Group, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, which has approximately $1 trillion in assets under management. In that …
May 20 is an important day because it is World Bee Day, an international day to acknowledge the role of bees as pollinators in our ecosystem. Bees are critical to the global food supply. About one-third of all the food we eat would suffer dire consequences if honeybees vanished. If you really want …
