Archive for October, 2018
Thursday
Oct
25
7:00 pm
Honorable Michael Ponsor “Justice and the American Character”
A system of law presents at least two faces: a sheltering force protecting citizens’ rights, and a potentially oppressive instrument of control. These two aspects of the law have revealed themselves powerfully during thirty-five years on the bench. Fiction can...
Tuesday
Oct
23
7:00 pm
Peter Aucella, Steve Stowell, and Charles Tonetti “Preserving Lowell’s Architectural Legacy”
Come celebrate the 40th anniversary of Lowell National Historical Park with this slide show of the City’s architectural past, present, and future. Aucella has led the park’s historic preservation and development division for many years and will share “before and...
Sunday
Oct
21
2:00 pm
Eric Jay Dolin “Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates”
Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, this story reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy’s “Golden Age”. Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these outrages pirates in an early display of colonial solidarity...
Tuesday
Oct
16
6:30 pm
Tom Haines “Walking to the Sun” A Journey through America’s Energy Landscapes
On a winter day in 2013, Tom Haines stood in front of his basement furnace and wondered about the source of the natural gas that fueled his insulated life. During the next four years, Haines walked hundreds of miles through...
Saturday
Oct
6
2:00 pm
Dr. Ann Charters “Jack Kerouac’s “Dharma Bums” Sixty Years Later”
This program is part of the 2018 Lowell Celebrates Kerouac festival On this 60th anniversary of the publication of Kerouac’s novel The Dharma Bums, Dr. Ann Charters. Retired Professor of English at the University of Connecticut will present her thoughts...