Mason County District Library and Abondia Center continue the new public lecture series, Shifting Landscapes, on Monday, October 18, with Strangers: Who Are We? at 7-8:30 pm at the Ludington Area Center for the Arts, and on Zoom, featuring MSU philosopher ethicist Stephen Esquith. Stephen Esquith will explore the most expansive experience of community yet in the series, our relation to strangers. "I am interested,” Esquith commented, “how our responsibilities to strangers might have shifted as a result of Covid-19. How have our lives in cyberspace (e.g., on Zoom, social media) affected our responsibilities to others? Have we created new connections with others who were not visible to us before?” Esquith also notes, “We’ll also consider such questions as, “Have our responsibilities to those previously close to us been weakened by this shift from physical to virtual presence? What does it mean to think of others as 'distant strangers,’ or does this term make less sense now that we are more virally as well as virtually connected?” This event is free to you and to your patrons. I can forward you additional resources related to the event, including articles written by Esquith that he has given us permission to share. -- Thomas Trahey Mason County District Library Head of Circulation 231-843-8465