Robert Unger, editor and associate publisher of The Standard-Times, will give a lecture, “Who Really Cares Anyway? News & Civic Engagement in Our Time” Thursday, Nov. 17 at Saint Gabriel’s Church in Marion. Refreshments will be served at 6:45 p.m. and Unger’s discussion will start at 7:15 p.m.

He will talk about the Chautauqua movement, an adult education movement in the United States popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The event is hosted by the League of Women Voters.

Chautauqua assemblies expanded and spread throughout rural America until the mid-1920s.

“I would like to see this take place in the Greater New Bedford community,” Unger says. “This is where public issues such as the Civil Rights movement and the Women’s Suffrage movement were discussed.”

The League of Women Voters is a non-partisan, grassroots organization in the State of Massachusetts which works towards influencing public policy through education and advocacy.

The League comprises women and men making a difference in the political future of communities, the state and the country.

For more information, contact Nancy Braitmayer at 508-748-0276 or Kris Eastman at 508-758-6051.