Archive for November, 2013
Sunday
Nov
17
2:00 pm
Susan Gallagher – “Mapping Thoreau Country”
Susan E. Gallagher, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, UMass Lowell and member of the Thoreau Society Board of Directors, will provide a tour of Mapping Thoreau Country: Tracking Henry David Thoreau’s Travels in Massachusetts (MTC), a digital initiative that uses...
Wednesday
Nov
6
7:00 pm
Steve Kurkjian – “Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist”
A Boston native, Stephen A. Kurkjian spent 37 years as an editor and reporter for The Boston Globe before retiring in 2007. During his career, he shared in three Pulitzer Prizes and won more than 20 regional and other national...
Sunday
Nov
3
2:00 pm
Laren Whitley – “The 1970’s Sartorial Revolution”
The end of the 1960s and early 1970s witnessed not only a cultural revolution, but a sartorial revolution, as global challenges to social and political authority expressed themselves in new ideas about clothing. In rejecting the values of prevailing “straight”...
Saturday
Nov
2
2:00 pm
Edward H. Furey – “Glorious Gems of Lowell: Patrick Keely’s Legacy”
Patrick Charles Keely (1816-1896) designed and built an estimated 700 churches and ecclesiastical buildings in the eastern and western United States and Canada from the 1840s when he emigrated from County Tipperary, Ireland, to Brooklyn, New York, until he died...