Author Archive
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...
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...