Archive for November, 2012
Thursday
Nov
29
7:00 pm
Steve Edington “Bring Your Own God: The Spirituality of Woody Guthrie”
The year 2012 is the Woody Guthrie Centennial. He was born in Okemah, Oklahoma in 1912. While primarily known for his involvement in the American labor movement in the pre-World War II years, and as the author/composer of This Land...
Wednesday
Nov
28
7:00 pm
“ROLL ON COLUMBIA” – A Woody Guthrie Film & Music Tribute
In 1941 Woody Guthrie packed up his wife and kids to take a job with the U.S. department of the Interior. They needed a folksinger to promote the benefits of building dams in order to produce cheap electricity on the...
Monday
Nov
19
12:00 pm
Michael Klare “The Global Scramble for Resources”
Michael T. Klare teaches at Hampshire College, and is a Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies. Klare is a defense correspondent of The Nation magazine, and author of Resource Wars and Blood and Oil: The Dangers and...
Thursday
Nov
15
7:00 pm
“Remembering Peter Stamas: A Celebration of Community and Service”
An evening remembering Lowell educator and community leader Peter Stamas. Throughout his life, Peter S. Stamas was known as a man with many hats. Through his many varied roles as an educator and community leader, the former LHS headmaster and...
Sunday
Nov
4
2:00 pm
Ernest Hebert “How the Great Gatsby Demeans Working People”
Ernest Hebert’s most recent novel, NEVER BACK DOWN, tells the story of the life and loves of Jack Landry, a New England Franco-American working man. Hebert wrote his book as an answer to The GREAT GATSBY and DELIVERANCE, novels that...