Unlikely Friendships with Dr. Ken Peters
Mondays 1:00 p.m.—2:00 p.m.
Georgetown Public Library Hewett Room
In-person only
At a time when differences of opinion seem so important, and so many relationships are adversarial, it might be encouraging to see how friendships which could not have been predicted have developed between notable individuals. Conversely, people who might have been friends were not, but why? Why, for example, did Simon and Garfunkel not get on well at all while Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover did? Newton and Leibniz might have been friends — they weren’t, but Galileo and Kepler were. Allowing for the failures, our time together will emphasize our finer capacity for setting aside differences and being friends. I look forward to a first meeting among friends in January.
Ken Peters grew up near Georgetown, in Copperas Cove, Texas, and received his B.A. degree from Southwestern University. He did graduate work at the University of Texas, obtaining the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, and later teaching American history at Texas A&M. In 1980 he began his second career in the Presbyterian ministry, earning the M.Div. degree from Austin Presbyterian Seminary and retiring from New Braunfels Presbyterian Church.
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