Upcoming Lectures

TBA

Past Lectures

2008

• Discovering the Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett biographer, Dr. Richard Layman as keynote address partnership for the City of Franklin's Big Read initiative.

• Roads: How Do We Get There From Here?, by Dave Parker (City of Franklin) and Michael Flatt (Gresham, Smith & Partners) promises to be timely and highly informative, covering roadway funding, design, jurisdiction, Franklin’s “Major Thoroughfare Plan,” road impact fees, and funding for City projects.

2007

• Motivation to Move: Fitting 6,000 Footsteps into Your Frantic Day by Robert Sweetgall is nationally recognized for walking across America seven times, walking 11,208 miles through all 50 states in one year, authoring over 15 books on health and fitness, and helping over 5000 schools, corporations, hospitals, an communities to implement wellness programs. 

• Saved By Development: Preserving Natural Areas, Farmland and Landmarks with Transfer Development Rights by Rick Pruetz, author of Beyond Takings and Givings.

• Mayoral Election Forum--candidates for Franklin Mayor provided statements and answered issue-based questions, televised.

• Aldermanic Election Forum--candidates for Franklin City Aldermen At-Large answered issue-based questions, televised.

2006

• Social Capital: The Value of an Involved Community by Lew Fedstein, co-author of Bowling Alone and Better Together and president of The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. 

• Green Building by Kim Shinn (a registered professional mechanical engineer with TLC Engineering for Architecture, Director of TLC’s Sustainable Design Consultancy, and Chairman of the local Middle Tennessee Chapter of the US Green Building Council--USGBC). 

• The Enormous Demographic Shifts and Behavior Patterns Affecting Williamson Co.: How to Reach and Motivate Today’s Generations, by Judy Randall of Randall Travel Marketing. 

2005

• Protecting Open Space by Greg Byrne (Director of Community Planning and environmental services; Fort Collins, Colorado)

• Battlefield Preservation by Paul Hawke (Director of the American Battlefield Protection Program; National Park Service)

• Smart Growth by Allison Ude (former Special Projects Manager for New Town Advisors; managed the creation of the New Urban Development Project Appraisal System) and Chris Ude (President of the non-profit Hard Bargain Mount Hope Redevelopment organization; Franklin Planning Commission)

• Redevelopment Districts by Jeff Ockerman (Stites & Harbison, PLLC; Councilman for the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County from 1991-1995)

• Workforce Development by Mark Drury (Assistant Commissioner of the Communications and Creative Services Division, Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development)