Taste of the Taft
This annual series of luncheon lectures returns with a lineup of local luminaries giving presentations on history, culture, and society under the tent on the terrace. Box lunch is included.

Upcoming Programs

Reservations are required.
$22 for each lecture / Full series tickets (members only): $65 / Group rate for 8 or more: $17. Call (513) 684-4515 or register online.
 
Living Literature: The Written Word Comes to Life
Friday, May 29, 12 p.m.
Actor Giles Davies, known in Cincinnati from his many years on stage with Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, comes back to town to perform excerpts from poetry and prose. A veritable one-man band, he will enact multiple entertaining characters and scenes from famous and not-so-famous works of literature.
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The Banks of the Ohio
Friday, June 12, 12 p.m.
Economic downturn . . . banking crisis--newspaper headlines from the 1820s could easily be today's. John Reusing, development director of the Public Libary of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, duscusses the first bank in Cincinnati, found by Martin Baum; shares trivia about paper money and local banking history; and promises to pass some cash around.
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Remember the Ladies
Friday, July 10, 12 p.m.
As we get to know a new First Lady in the White House, History Alive presenter Joyce Baer returns with a look at some of America's First Ladies, including those with ties to Ohio, such as Helen Herron Taft whose family lived in a townhouse just across the street from the home that is now the Taft Museum of Art.
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The Boudoir: A Study of Fashion and Beauty, 1890s-1960s
Friday, August 7, 12 p.m.
Bette Sherman, Cincinnati's "Queen of Stuff," is a passionate collector of historic women's fashion and vintage beauty accessories. She takes us inside the ladies' bedroom, with help from models sporting vintage loungewear, and shows some of her examples of lingerie, jewelry, hosiery, fans, celluloid boxes, and other items for the boudoir.
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Sponsor:
Stanley and Frances D. Cohen Lecture Series

Fine Arts Fund Partner:
Western & Southern Financial Group