Lessons from the Local Group: A Conference in Honour of David Block and Bruce Elmegreen

From the Contents: Lessons from the Milky Way.- Milky Way Halo and First Stars.- Milky Way Bulge.- Milky Way Thick Disk.- Milky Way Bar.- Milky Way Thin Disk and Spiral Structure.- Gould's Belt.- Gas in the Milky Way.- Interstellar Gas Dynamics.- Interstellar Turbulence.- The Local Group through the Eyes of the Spitzer Space Telescope.- Dust in the Local Group.- Milky Way Metallicities and Fossil Cosmology.- The Interconnected Lives of Reynolds and Hubble.- History of the Discovery of Galaxies.- Stellar Migration in Galaxy Disks.- Cloud and Star Formation in Spiral Arms.- M31 Metallicities.- M31 Gas and Star Formation.- M31 and M33 Outer Disk and Halo.- M33 Gas and Star Formation.- Formation of Galaxy Groups.- Dynamics of the Local Group.- Morphological Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Group.- Formation and Early Evolution of Globular Clusters.- MW Globular Clusters.- Globular Clusters in the Local Group.- History of the Magellanic Clouds.- LMC Stars.- LMC Gas and Star Formation.- SMC Stars.- SMC Gas and Star Formation.- LMC, SMC Orbits.- The Sgr Dwarf Galaxy.- Origin of Dwarf Galaxies.- Dwarf Satellites of the MW.- Vast Polar Structure of MW Dwarfs.- HVC and Intergalactic Clouds in the Local Group.- MW, M31, M33 Galaxy Centers: Gas and Star Formation.- MW Galactic Center Black Hole.- Galaxy Accretion and Cold Flows.- DM in Dwarf Galaxies and Mini Halos.- Planetary Nebulae.- Galaxy Morphology: Classical.- Galaxy Morphology: Quantitative Measures.- Galaxy Morphology: High Redshift.- The Earliest Galaxies.- Cosmic Evolution of Gas Content and Accretion.- High-z Galaxies: Gas and Star Formation.- Formation of Stars and Clusters over Cosmological Time.- Conference Summary.