Becky Rowden and Roger Smith
11:00 am – 12:00 pm | Fridays
August 7 through 28REGISTER
Films are screened at 9:30 am each class day with closed captioning when available.
Representatives from thirteen states—far from united in mind—met during a sweltering Philadelphia summer in 1776 to debate independence from Mother England. Two episodes from the critically acclaimed HBO miniseries
(inspired by David McCullough’s biography of John Adams), along with the delightful and amazingly accurate
musical 1776, dramatize the events that led to the Declaration of Independence.
JOHN ADAMS: JOIN OR DIE 2008 | 70 MIN
JOHN ADAMS: INDEPENDENCE 2008 | 70 MIN
1776 – PART I 1972 | 83 MIN
1776 – PART II 1972 | 83 MIN
Becky Rowden is a retired attorney whose avocation is film and cinema studies. She is a longtime class member at TLC and has facilitated a number of TLC’s cinema course offerings.
Roger Smith is the founding director of The Learning Center of SCI. He taught American literature in the high school classroom before becoming director of education at the Georgia Historical Society. He joined the staff of Senior Citizens, Inc. in 2006.