Archive for October, 2017
Sunday
Oct
29
2:00 pm
Tony Connors – “Paul Moodys Lowell Accomplishments”
Co-Sponsored by The Lowell Historical Society. This lecture traces Paul Moody’s career from his early life in Newbury and Amesbury to his years of remarkable inventiveness at the Boston Manufacturing Company at Waltham, and finally his vital role in the...
Thursday
Oct
26
7:00 pm
Stephen Collins – “Butterfly”
Butterfly is about James McNeil Whistler (1834-1903), the volatile American artist who battled (mostly in Victorian England) for personal expression in the arts; Butterfly presents Whistler at two phases in his life: as a bankrupt artist in his 40’s on...
Tuesday
Oct
24
7:00 pm
J.W. OCKER – “Odd Things I’ve Seen…in Massachusetts”
Massachusetts is a state full of oddity, from witch markers and pirate caves to medieval castles and ghost towns to macabre medical museums and books bound in human skin, all of it worth a visit if you’ve got a tank...
Thursday
Oct
19
7:00 pm
John Gfroerer – “Television: The Art and Ethics of Manipulation”
John Gfroerer explores the power of television as a communication medium and the ethical implications of manipulating the viewer by means of the choices made behind the camera through the final editing process. By examining the artistic techniques used to...
Saturday
Oct
7
2:00 pm
John Leland – “Why Kerouac Matters”
Part of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Festival. Legions of youthful Americans have taken On the Road as a manifesto for rebellion and an inspiration to hit the road. But there is much more to the book than that. In Why Kerouac...