11:00 am ~ Yertle the Turtle: Exploring our Roles in Equality
This interactive, multigenerational service will examine the important lessons in Theodore Giesel’s (aka Dr. Seuss) Yertle the Turtle. Through story-telling, video, personal reflection, movement, and sharing, we will explore how we have benefited and suffered from economic and political inequalities and what we can do to encourage change in our world. This service is designed to engage all ages from children to adults.
Presented by Wendy Sapp, a UUCC member.
9:30 Forum (downstairs) ~ The American Civil War: Causes and Results
With the hardships endured in establishing this great nation, politics and social division caused dire consequences, resulting in a war between the states. A lesson to be learned — as pertinent today as it has ever been, as we review the political divide between Republicans, Democrats, the President and the role of the courts.
Presented by Shelby Kaplan, a Chattanooga native, a Rivermont Presbyterian church member, who served in the US Air Force as a Captain and the 819th Medical Service Corps in Texas. He obtained a BS and MBA at UTC in 1968. Shelby administers retirement benefits for a local logistics firm; he is married with 2 children and 6 grandchildren, and spends a lot of time exploring historical sites in the Tennessee Valley and beyond.