Author Archive
Sunday
Nov
6
2:00 pm
Jack Curtis – “Civil War Monuments of Augustus Saint-Gaudens”
The greatest sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) secured his place in the pantheon of American artists with his dynamic portrayals of Civil War heroes. This survey of the life and work of the influential sculptor, from his...
Sunday
Oct
30
2:00 pm
The Tamburitzans
The Duquesne University Tamburitzans are the longest-running multicultural song and dance company in the United States. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the company's members are full-time Duquesne University students who receive scholarships for their activities. The Tamburitzans mission is twofold: first,...
Thursday
Oct
27
7:00 pm
Ted Reinstein – “Wicked Pissed: New England’s Most Famous Feuds”
From sports to politics, food to finance, to bitter disputes over simple boundaries themselves, New England’s feuds have peppered the region’s life for centuries. Ted Reinstein has been a reporter for “Chronicle,” WCVB-TV/Boston’s award winning nightly news magazine since 1997....
Sunday
Oct
23
2:00 pm
Kevin Gallagher – “The Last Lord of the Loom”
Gallagher, will read and discuss his new book, Loom. Loom traces how the men who built the backbone of American capitalism—the power loom that enabled cotton manufacturing—fueled slavery and the removal of Native Americans from the eastern United States. After decades of defending...
Thursday
Oct
20
6:00 pm
Wendy Johnston – “The Healing Power of Nature”
In 2013, Wendy Johnston decided to take a hike, more accurately a 2,700 mile journey of a life time. Wendy hiked the Pacific Crest Trail, the same trail Cheryl Strayed wrote about in her book “Wild”. After her 5 month...
Thursday
Oct
13
11:45 am
Michael Rezendes – “Spotlight”
Mike Rezendes is an award-winning investigative reporter with the Boston Globe Spotlight Team. In 2003, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for revealing the cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and is played by Mark Ruffalo in the Academy...
Saturday
Oct
8
2:00 pm
Jay Atkinson – “Jack Kerouac: Speed Demon”
Part of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Festival. Jack Kerouac was remarkable athlete, by any standard. He was a champion sprinter and hurdler, a speedy baseball outfielder, and a gridiron phenom. In this talk, writer Jay Atkinson sheds light on Kerouac’s athletic...
Wednesday
Oct
5
11:45 am
David Ropeik – “RISK-A practical guide for deciding what is really SAFE”
Author, award-winning television reporter, teacher, consultant and public speaker, David Ropeik will explain why most of us worry too much about some things, and not enough about others. This will serve as a guide to understanding why our fears don’t...
Thursday
Sep
29
7:00 pm
Mitchel Zuckoff – “Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II”
Frozen in Time is a true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II. A B-17 assigned to the search and rescue mission became lost in a blinding storm and also crashed. Miraculously,...
Wednesday
Sep
21
10:00 am
Susan Mollohan – “A Parkinson’s Disease Journey”
As a Fox Trial Finder Ambassador, Susan Mollohan of Derry NH helps to spread the word about the importance of participating in clinical trials, using a data base tool developed by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson Research. A former educator, she now...
Thursday
Sep
8
7:00 pm
Steven Hancoff – “From Tragedy to Transcendence The Six Suites for Cello Solo By J. Sebastian Bach”
Steven Hancoff will take you on a journey to see how Johann Sebastian Bach, a poor, unappreciated and tormented orphan transformed himself into the greatest virtuoso of his time. Half of the presentation is devoted to the historic story of...
Thursday
Aug
11
11:00 am
The Red Trouser Show
An amazing eye popping brilliant physical performance from the internationally trained and toured duo known as The Red Trouser Show will leave you in awe! Do not miss this show!
Wednesday
Aug
10
11:00 am
Ben Rudnick and Friends
Sophisticated melodies, precise instrumentation and witty lyrics that will delight the whole family!
Sunday
Apr
10
2:00 pm
Jill Carey – “Orson Lowell: Fashion and Satire”
Lasell Professor, Jill Carey will discuss how during the opening years of the 20th century, illustrative commentary filled magazine pages as a means of conveying humanity within a societal context. Humorist Orson Lowell, a noted illustrator from this period, created...
Sunday
Mar
20
2:00 pm
Richard P. Howe Jr. “The Solon Perkins Flag”
Solon Perkins was born in Lancaster, New Hampshire in 1836. He moved to Lowell with his family in 1840 and was still living here when the Civil War began. Benjamin Butler recruited a full regiment of infantry and three independent...
Tuesday
Mar
15
7:00 pm
Sven Beckert – “Empire of Cotton”
Sven Beckert’s newest book points out how globalization is nothing new especially when it comes to the cotton industry. By the end of the 1850s the United States provided as much as 90% of the cotton consumed by Europe’s manufacturers....
Thursday
Mar
10
7:00 pm
Ty Burr – “The 50 Movie Starter Kit”
Boston Globe movie critic, Ty Burr, will tell you what you need to know if you want to know what you’re talking about when it come to movies. This is for beginning film lovers as well as those who want...
Thursday
Nov
19
7:00 pm
Carlo Rotella – “Music, Memory, and the City: A Journey Back to the Old Neighborhood”
Music has profound power to shape and cue memory, returning us to vivid images and mental states normally left far behind us in the past. This talk explores the ways in which the popular songs of an era can serve...
Sunday
Nov
15
2:00 pm
M. William Phelps – “Historic Female Serial Killers: Arsenic and Old Lace-The True Story”
A night with crime and serial killer expert and New York Times bestselling author M. William Phelps with a discussion of his series, Dark Minds. This talk will be based on his book THE DEVIL’S ROOMING HOUSE, which tells the...
Sunday
Nov
8
2:00 pm
Madelyn Shaw – “A Downton Abbey Fashion Primer, 1912-1925”
Fashion has a social role. What we wear tells people a lot about who we are, or who we want others to think we are. The time span of the BBC costume drama Downton Abbey encompasses some of the most...
Sunday
Nov
1
2:00 pm
Andrew E. Smith & David W. Moore – “The First Primary”
A concise history and its impact on presidential politics: Smith and Moore offer an analysis of its media coverage along with a discussion of how New Hampshire’s electorate reflects or diverges from national opinions. Why does New Hampshire deserve such...
Sunday
Oct
25
2:00 pm
Willem Lange – “A Yankee Notebook”
Willem Lange has worked as a ranch hand, Adirondack guide, preacher, construction laborer, cab driver, bookkeeper, and bartender. After graduating from the College of Wooster in Ohio in 1962, he taught high school English in northern New York, filling in...
Thursday
Oct
22
7:00 pm
Russell Powell – “Discover the Apples of New England”
Author Russell Steven Powell will read from his book Apples of New England about our region’s rich tradition of apple growing, and the “fathers” of American apples, Massachusetts natives John Chapman (“Johnny Appleseed”) and Henry David Thoreau. Powell will also...
Sunday
Oct
18
2:00 pm
Dylan Craig – “The Return of the Hessians”
The figure of the Hessian soldier is a staple of the Revolutionary War mythos, and distancing the inhabitants of the "land of the free" from Britain's "hirelings and slaves" was a cornerstone of early American efforts at establishing a political identity. Globally,...
Thursday
Oct
15
7:00 pm
Haley Sweetland Edwards – “Dancing on the Heads of Snakes”
What does Yemen's collapse mean for Americans, al-Qaeda, and stability in the Middle East? Drawing on years of on-the-ground reporting, the talk will be about the current political, economic, and cultural realities in Yemen. I hope to flesh out recent...
Wednesday
Oct
14
11:45 am
Daniel Korschun – “WE ARE MARKET BASKET”
“WE ARE MARKET BASKET: The Story of the Unlikely Grassroots Movement that Saved a Beloved Business,” by Daniel Korschun & Grant Welker explores arresting firsthand accounts from the streets and executive suites, We Are Market Basket is as inspiring as...
Saturday
Oct
10
2:00 pm
Tim Z. Hernandez – “Searching for the Real Mexican Girl”
In 2010, author Tim Z. Hernandez located the real woman behind Jack Kerouac’s “Terry” from On the Road. At age 92, Bea Franco was living in relative obscurity, in Fresno, California. In this presentation, Hernandez will share his journey from...
Sunday
Oct
4
2:00 pm
Meg Noonan – “The Coat Route: Craft, Luxury & Obsession on the Trail of a $50,000 Coat”
When journalist Meg Lukens Noonan learned of an unthinkably expensive, entirely handcrafted overcoat that a fourth-generation tailor had made for one of his longtime clients, she set off on an adventure to understand its provenance, and from that impulse unspooled...
Thursday
Sep
24
7:00 pm
Thatcher Freund – “Why Your Story Matters”
Thatcher Freund, a journalist and memoir writer, will talk about the importance of stories in our lives both to ourselves and to the culture we live in, and why it matters so much that we preserve them. Thatcher is a...
Monday
Sep
21
11:45 am
Howard Bauchner – “US Health Care: Important Emerging Policy Issues”
Howard Bauchner, MD, is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the JAMA Network, the latter consisting of ten additional leading medical journals ranging from JAMA Oncology to JAMA Psychiatry. The Network also includes JAMAevidence, which...