Jo Ann Citron
Jo Ann Citron has had dual careers in English and in law but has always preferred novels to statutes. She did her undergraduate work at Vassar, her Ph.D. at Boston University, and her J.D. at Northeastern University. She taught English literature at BU and Bates, and law and public policy at Wellesley College. Her family law practice in Massachusetts and New York concentrated in high-conflict child custody litigation with the NY practice emphasizing impact litigation. Until she moved from Cambridge to Truro full-time during the pandemic, she led study groups in 19th c. novels at the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement (HILR) in Cambridge. In 2023 she started A Taste for Trollope at the Truro Public Library where she leads discussions on Anthony Trollope and his contemporaries. This is her first course at the Prez Hall Open University.
Steve Reynolds
Steve Reynolds has taught classes at OUW on Carson McCullers, Eugene O’Neill and Brian Friel and on Gilbert and Sullivan and Arthur Miller for Lifetime Learning in Orleans. Directing projects on Cape Cod include Dancing at Lughnasa and A Little Night Music for Eventide Theatre Company and Stones in His Pockets and The Member of the Wedding for Cape Rep. Prior to moving to the Cape, Steve was…
Ken Shulman
Lynn C. Miller
Lewis Shepard
Janis Bergman-Carton
Janis Bergman-Carton is a retired art history professor from Southern Methodist University where she taught modern European art and published books and articles about French urban modernity and cultural memory in Postwar Europe. Presently, she resides in Austin, Texas, dividing her time between a research-focused studio practice and teaching for Free Minds…
Betsy Bray
Betsy Bray is a self described Frank Lloyd Wright enthusiast. She is a member and a volunteer for the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, based in Chicago. In pursuit of that interest, she has volunteered for the Cape Modern House Trust. Betsy was a student at Yestermorrow in Waitsfield, Vermont, a building and design school, where she designed two homes and learned to build them…
Barbara Brennessel
Barbara Brennessel, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita of Biology at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. She taught Biochemistry, Microbiology and other courses at Wheaton for 33 years. She currently lives on Cape Cod in Wellfleet. Her recent research is focused on the Diamondback Terrapin…
Bill Burke
A wash-ashore from Western Massachusetts, Bill Burke is a National Park Service employee who serves as the Historian for the National Seashore. He has worked there in a number of roles over the past 20 years. He assists researchers and educators…
Dwight Estey
Dwight Estey is currently the president of the Wellfleet Historical Society and Museum. Prior to being on the board of directors he could be found giving historical walking tours of Wellfleet or helping museum visitors with research. Mr. Estey graduated in 1974 from the University of Connecticut …
Nathalie Ferrier
Nathalie Ferrier is a sculptor who was born in France and arrived in the USA when she was 29. She has lived on the Cape for the past twenty years.She teaches French language and leads several conversational groups on the Cape. Besides French language, she and her students explore …
Rhoda Flaxman
Rhoda Flaxman taught British and American Literature, first at the high school level, and then at Brown University(1987-2007), where she also directed Brown’s writing-across-the curriculum program and published on Victorian literature. She presently serves…
Deborah Forman
Deborah Forman is the author of four books, all published by Schiffer Publishing: Perspectives on the Provincetown Art Colony, a two-volume history (2011); Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: Images of Land and Sea (2013); Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: People & Places (2014); Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: On Abstraction (2015)…
Ed Golden
Ed Golden, Professor Emeritus of performance, American and Irish theater at UMass/Amherst, has won many awards, most notably for outstanding teaching. He has directed more than one hundred professional and university productions, including The Playboy of the Western World in 1991, which won …
Elissa Greenwald
Elissa Greenwald was a member of the fourth class of undergraduate women at Yale, where she received her B.A. in 1976 and her Ph.D. in English Literature in 1981. She taught American Literature at Rutgers University for seven years and Advanced Placement English Literature…
Megan Hinton
Megan Hinton is a visual artist based in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Hinton assembles materials in painting, printmaking, sculpture, and photography to reassemble personal and public narratives. Megan recently received her MFA from Mills College in Interdisciplinary…
Grace Hopkins
Grace Hopkins is a Wellfleet artist, parent, and educator. She is also the steward of the estates of artist Budd Hopkins and art historian April Kingsley: her parents. She earned a BFA in photography from the School of the Fine Arts at Tufts University and has guided the art world for two decades with positions in museums…
Tracey Barry Hunt
Tracey received her BA in Drama and History from Vassar College in 1994. She then spent a decade based in New York City working with Partisan Pictures as a documentary television writer, producer and director for National Geographic, PBS and the History Channel…
Alice Iacuessa
Alice Iacuessa spent thirty years as a social studies teacher, 21 years at the American School in London including 10 years as Social Studies Department Chair. Since her retirement she has been active in local …
Claude Kerven
Kerven's career began with the debut of his short film "Candy Store," which won an Academy Award for Best Dramatic Student Film. In 1982, he directed a series of Afterschool Specials for ABC-TV, including the Emmy Award winning "Starstruck" and the Director's Guild…