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Happy Birthday, New Yorker! You Look Marvelous at 100 Years Old!

  • The Learning Center 3025 Bull Street Savannah, GA, 31405 United States (map)

THE LEARNING CENTER of Senior Citizens, Inc. is Savannah’s center for lifelong learning. TLC welcomes members to the Center for Successful Aging in midtown Savannah and to their satellite campus at Skidaway Island for in-person programs. Programs on a vast variety of topics are offered seasonally both to TLC members and the public, and most are also available online and on-demand. Learn more HERE about upcoming fall talks, classes, and membership benefits. *Ample FREE PARKING on Jasper Street beside the easily accessible entrance to TLC’s event facility.

MORE ABOUT THE NEW YORKER If you have enjoyed the humor, fiction, “Talk of The Town” pieces, the art, book, film, and theater criticism, long-form journalism and profiles, poetry, food articles and much more that The New Yorker has been publishing over the years, then you will have just as much fun as we will reminiscing about the storied history of this American magazine. If it’s all new to you, then start HERE with Francoise Mouly’s recap, “Rea Irvin’s ‘Eustace Tilley’ at One Hundred: The Magazine Celebrates Its Centenary”. Mouly begins, “A hundred years ago, The New Yorker emerged from the Jazz Age dreams of two young journalists, Jane Grant and Harold Ross. Fresh from their time in Paris during the First World War—where Ross had edited Stars and Stripes, and met Grant, one of the first female journalists for the New York Times—they envisioned creating a sophisticated humor weekly inspired by European magazines…”