In 2001, Elaine and Werner Gossels and Nancy and Peter Gossels donated funds to the Trustees of the Wayland Free Public Library to establish the Gossels Fund for Human Dignity endowment fund in honor of Charlotte Lewy Gossels, Hilde Lewy, Lina Lewy and all other innocent victims of persecution.
This fund supports Library programming “to foster and augment programs and activities that will encourage people to respect, treasure, and protect the rights of all human beings to live in dignity, freedom, and peace.”
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September 2020 – Tell Me the Truth: Exploring the Heart of Cross-Racial Conversations with Shay Stewart-Bouley and Debby Irving |
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November 2017 – Chris Edwards: Then and Now – video |
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March 2017 – Egyptian Music Performance by Karim Nagi |
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February 2016 – Singing our Story with Leonard Brown |
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February 2013 – Raising Global IQ with Carl Hobert |
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Spring 2011 – Wayland Reads: Zeitoun by Dave Eggers |
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November 2009 – Sasha Chanoff, Executive Director of Mapendo International |
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2008 – Reflections on the Obama Candidacy with Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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2007 – The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot & the Case for Reparations with Charles Ogletree, Jr. |
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October 2007 – Ellen Craft: Self Emancipated Woman with Marcia Estabrook |
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January 2006 – Soul at Work with Margaret Benefiel, Ph.D. |
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2005 – The Trial of Anthony Burns by Theatre Espresso |
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2004 – Film Series presented by John Michalczyk |
| 2003 – Storytelling by Laura Simms – Peace and Healing | |
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2002 – The Confession of Ann Putnam with Laura Simms |