Author Archive
Thursday
Aug
13
11:00 am
Josh and the Jamtones
Josh and the Jamtones is an interactive kids-version musical ska/roots/rock mash-up. The band's albums, "Jump Up" and "Bear Hunt!" are filled to bursting with hooky sing-alongs, feature frenetic dance party jams, massive pop-sensible choruses and hysterical improv-comedy skits all played...
Wednesday
Aug
12
11:00 am
Airborne Comedians
Dan Foley and Joel Harris are The Airborne Comedians. An act that began 20 years ago as a snowball juggling contest in a Laundromat, now escalated to riding six and seven foot high unicycles and flaming lawn chair juggling.
Sunday
Apr
19
2:00 pm
Larry Cultrera “Classic Diners of Massachusetts”
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts was the birthplace of the burgeoning "night lunch wagon" manufacturing industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These horse-drawn food carts eventually evolved into classic American diners. For many years, diner builders like the...
Sunday
Apr
12
2:00 pm
Walter Hickey “Beyond Ladd and Whitney: the Wounded of Baltimore”
The attack on the 6th Regiment is remembered today for the deaths of four men: Luther Ladd & Addison Whitney of Lowell, Sumner Needham of Lawrence, and Charles Taylor, attributed to Lowell. However, an additional forty-five men were wounded, some...
Sunday
Apr
12
2:00 pm
Walter Hickey “Beyond Ladd and Whitney: the Wounded of Baltimore”
The attack on the 6th Regiment is remembered today for the deaths of four men: Luther Ladd & Addison Whitney of Lowell, Sumner Needham of Lawrence, and Charles Taylor, attributed to Lowell. However, an additional forty-five men were wounded, some...
Sunday
Mar
29
2:00 pm
Diana Jaye Coluntino “Who Made our Clothes?”
Improving sustainability in fashion manufacturing, a growing movement aims to increase awareness among consumers and work towards improving manufacturing practices around the globe. Over the years the fashion industry has taken manufacturing out of the USA and into developing countries...
Wednesday
Mar
25
6:30 pm
FILM-Documentary “Finding Vivian Maier”
The acclaimed documentary "Finding Vivian Maier" reveals the story of a mysterious nanny who secretly took 150,000 photographs. In 2007, two years before her death, her riveting images & home movies were discovered in Chicago, instantly transforming Maier into one...
Thursday
Mar
19
7:00 pm
Ted Reinstein “New England Notebook: One Reporter, Six States, Uncommon Stories”
Ted Reinstein is best known around New England as a longtime correspondent for "Chronicle," the equally longtime and celebrated nightly newsmagazine which airs on Boston's ABC affiliate, WCVB-TV Ted joined the show in 1995 as a reporter and producer. In...
Sunday
Mar
8
2:00 pm
CONCERT-“SOUNDS and SILENCES”
Harmonie Transverse, which means flute wind band, is celebrating its thirteenth season. It was formed by flutists who performed with the New England Conservatory’s Metropolitan Flute Orchestra. These include the piccolo, C Flute, G Alto Flute, Bass Flute and Contra...
Sunday
Nov
2
2:00 pm
David M. Phillips “My Fascination with Insects”
Using images taken by Dr. Phillips with microscopes and cameras he will illustrate the intricate architecture of insects, and how the ability of these little creatures to sense and react to their surroundings has enabled them to become the predominate...
Sunday
Oct
26
2:00 pm
Patricia Johnston “Global Trade and Visual Arts in Federal New England”
A highly original collection that explores the impact of Asian and Indian Ocean trade on the art and aesthetic sensibilities of New England port towns in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Examining a wide variety of commodities and...
Sunday
Oct
19
2:00 pm
Hon. Hiller B. Zobel “Justice Holmes’ Civil War”
Barely 20-years old, fresh out of Harvard, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. accepted a commission as first lieutenant in the 20th Massachusetts Regiment. By mid-October, the regiment was fighting in the Battle of Ball’s Bluff, where Holmes sustained a potentially life-threatening...
Saturday
Oct
11
2:00 pm
Steve Dalachinsky ”A Bird In Hand”
Steve Dalachinsky is a widely published New York City poet, lecturer, and educator. He has published 10 volumes of poetry including "And the Beat Goes On" and "The Superintendent's Eye." In a more scholarly vein he has published "Logos and...
Thursday
Oct
9
7:00 pm
Greg Flemming “At the Point of a Cutlass”
Greg Flemming will discuss his new book, At the Point of a Cutlass, which tells the incredible true story of a Massachusetts fisherman who was captured by pirates in 1722 and then escaped and lived as a castaway on an...
Tuesday
Oct
7
11:45 am
Susan Wornick “Susan Wornick: A Life in Broadcasting”
One of Boston's most engaging anchors and reporters, Susan Wornick spent 34 years at Boston's number one television station, WCVB-TV. She rose from street reporter, to investigative and consumer reporter winning a cache of awards along the way. Susan's commitment...
Sunday
Oct
5
2:00 pm
Samantha Fields “A Marvel of Modern Inefficiency”
Multimedia artist Samantha Fields discusses her recent work utilizing salvage, handmade afghan yarns. By unraveling the pieces, Samantha explores the nostalgic sense of these works, which have, at times, been considered “garish” in color, but which remain important reflections of...
Monday
Sep
29
11:45 am
Cheryl Bartlett, RN; Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health “Public Health Challenges: Behavior, Environment, & Quality of Care”
Throughout her career in public health and health care, Ms. Bartlett has been a voice for promoting positive change in health outcomes for Massachusetts residents. As Commissioner Ms. Bartlett chairs the newly appointed Prevention and Wellness Advisory Board, which oversees...
Sunday
Sep
21
2:00 pm
Rebecca Siemering “Re-Purposed and Well Suited: The Refined Clothing of the Lottery Project”
Fiber artist Rebecca Siemering discusses how discarded items, particularly lottery tickets, were used to create refined clothing pieces. Struck by the sense of bad luck, lost dreams, and wishes for fortune that the left over tickets reflected, she repurposed them...
Thursday
Sep
18
6:00 pm
Amy Ziffer “Shade Revealed: How to Garden Successfully in Low Light (Really”
Shade plants are not created equal!” Shade Revealed, a talk abundantly illustrated with beautiful photography, focuses on what makes some shade plants belter performers than others. She also presents a clear approach to designing your shade garden for the best...
Sunday
Sep
7
2:00 pm
Adrienne Sloane “Unraveling Political Knitting”
Sculptural knitter and fiber artist Adrienne Sloane traces the historical roots of knitting and politics from American wartime knitting to more recent more recent youth-driven knit revival called "yarn bombing.” The presentation focuses on how sculptural knitters address contemporary issues...
Thursday
Aug
14
11:00 am
Karen K & the Jitterbugs
Join Parents Choice Award Winner Karen K & the Jitterbugs as they perform selections from their new album 'Big Ol' Truck' which won a won a Parents Choice "Fun Stuff" Award in Fall 2013.Magazine'. Karen has been featured on "CBS...
Thursday
Jul
31
11:00 am
The Red Trouser Show
An amazing eye popping brilliant physical performance from the internationally trained duo known as The Red Trouser Show, will leave you in awe! This physical comedy team made up of Tobin Renwick and David Graham will take your breath away!...
Sunday
May
4
2:00 pm
Seth Rockman – “Mill Hands, Field Hands”
Mill hands, field hands, and the intertwined worlds of factory and plantation in antebellum America. Ralph Waldo Emerson famously quipped, “Cotton thread holds the Union together.” This talk will explore the meaning of these connections for the men and women...
Wednesday
Apr
23
7:00 pm
The Projectionist Is No Longer in the House: Cinema in the 21st Century
Explore the timelessness of cinema through the eyes of the movie projectionist, that "magician" in the projection booth who spliced, threaded (and sometimes shredded!) celluloid film. As digital cinema takes over the industry, the death of celluloid & 21st century technology has...
Sunday
Apr
6
2:00 pm
Richard P. Howe Jr. – “Lowell and the Law “
Lowell’s explosive growth as a center of textile manufacturing brought with it a boom in legal business. From its founding up until the present day, judges, lawyers and litigants from Lowell have had a profound effect on the jurisprudence and...
Sunday
Dec
1
2:00 pm
Anthony N. Iarrapino – “Water Worries in a Warming World”
Strategies for Securing the Natural Resource We Cannot Live Without. In a warming world with a growing population, our happiness and our safety depend on our ability to keep our water clean, full of life and widely accessible to all...
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...