Uploaded August 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In his essay “The Crack-Up,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” That bipolarity was fully on display throughout the year 1919, as the world’s peoples celebrated the end of a world war, but found plenty of new reasons to feel divided, including over art. Throughout 2019, historian Ted Widmer has been co-curating a series of essays in the New York Times on all of the ways we still live in the shadow of this transitional year. Ted Widmer and Tim Garrity, head of the MDI Historical Society, discuss 1919: The Year of the Crack-Up.
The annual Champlain Institute hosts thought leaders from around the country and the world to share their expertise on pressing issues of our time. The 2019 topic was Art: Dissent and Diplomacy. All events are held on College of the Atlantic’s waterfront campus and are free and open to the public. To learn more, visit coa.edu.
In his essay “The Crack-Up,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” That bipolarity was fully on display throughout the year 1919, as the world’s peoples celebrated the end of a world war, but found plenty of new reasons to feel divided, including over art. Throughout 2019, historian Ted Widmer has been co-curating a series of essays in the New York Times on all of the ways we still live in the shadow of this transitional year. Ted Widmer and Tim Garrity, head of the MDI Historical Society, discuss 1919: The Year of the Crack-Up.
The annual Champlain Institute hosts thought leaders from around the country and the world to share their expertise on pressing issues of our time. The 2019 topic was Art: Dissent and Diplomacy. All events are held on College of the Atlantic’s waterfront campus and are free and open to the public. To learn more, visit coa.edu.
