Lectures For Lifelong Learners!

Learn how the Yellow Fruit came to our shores and conquered a hemisphere. Behold the sprawling saga of the not-so-humble Gros Michel, as it was called, and the strange cast of characters– like Sam the Banana Man and United Fruit — whose edgy exploits spawned the strange phenomenon known as the Banana Republics, shaping our hemisphere’s politics and economies for decades, to this very day.