Author Archive
Tuesday
Oct
29
11:45 am
Nicco Mele – “The End of Big”
Nicco Mele, entrepreneur and consultant to Fortune 1000 companies, is one of America's leading forecasters of business, politics, and culture in our fast-moving digital age. Nicco's first book, The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath, was published...
Sunday
Oct
27
2:00 pm
Michael Tougias – “Survival Lessons: From those who have survived against all odds.”
Award winning author and lecturer Michael Tougias shares the lessons learned about goal attainment and decision-making under pressure from researching his five national best-sellers, Ten Hours until Dawn, the Finest Hours, Overboard!, Fatal Forecast, A Storm Too Soon as well...
Monday
Oct
21
11:45 am
Mayor Thomas Menino – “A Conversation with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino”
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino is the current mayor of Boston, Massachusetts.. A native of Boston, Menino served on the city council for several years before becoming mayor. On March 28, 2013 Mayor Menino announced that he is not running for...
Sunday
Oct
20
2:00 pm
William Hosley – “Our History Matters! Rekindling Awe, Aspiration & Civic Attachment”
Today’s students are entering adult responsibilities and citizenship with the lowest level of historical literacy ever measured in this country. When "No Child Left Behind" doubled down on preparation and testing for reading and math it marginalized history and civics...
Thursday
Oct
17
7:00 pm
Stephen Collins – “Unlaunched Voices, an Evening with Walt Whitman”
Since the 1990’s, Stephen’s performances have captured the attention of the press. It is not just the stunning resemblance to Walt Whitman himself, but the portrayal of the character and the essence that he brings within arm’s reach to the...
Saturday
Oct
12
2:00 pm
Jim Sampas – “Celebrating Kerouac in Film and World”
Lowell native Jim Sampas is the founder of Reimagine Studios. Among his numerous film and recording projects are several that relate to the life and work of Jack Kerouac. They include the audio CD set of Doctor Sax and the...
Sunday
Oct
6
2:00 pm
Susan Ward – “Marimekko’s in America”
Join independent curator and textiles, fashion, and design history researcher Susan Ward, for an exploration of the history of Marimekko in the United States, and its influence on Mid-Century modernism in America. Susan might also share a few favorite vintage...
Thursday
Oct
3
6:00 pm
Dr. John Parrish – “Autopsy of War; a Personal History”
On the outside, John Parrish is a highly successful doctor, having risen to the top of his field as department head at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. nside; however, he was so tortured by the memories of his...
Monday
Sep
30
11:45 am
Stuart Altman – “Health Care Reform”
Stuart Altman, the Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy in Brandeis’ Heller School for Social Policy and Management, has been appointed by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to chair the agency charged with monitoring the reform of Massachusetts health...
Thursday
Sep
26
7:00 pm
Stephen Ericson – “Boon Island: A True Story of Mutiny, shipwreck and cannibalism”
The wreck of the Nottingham Galley, December 11, 1710, is one of the most important episodes in our local maritime history for a number of reasons. No shipwreck castaways were ever less prepared for the subfreezing temperature they were forced...
Tuesday
Sep
17
6:00 pm
Elinor Lipman – “An Author Comes Home”
Author Elinor Lipman will talk with characteristic good humor about the journey from writer-hopeful (starting at Lowell High School) to award-winning novelist, and other brushes with the imps of fate. Elinor Lipman was inducted into the Lowell High Distinguished Alumni...
Thursday
Aug
15
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.
Thursday
Apr
25
7:00 pm
Deborah Greenslit “Lessons Learned the Hard Way”
After winning over $750,000 on a slot machine, Deborah Greenslit thought she had it made. Today she will tell you differently.” When casinos come to Massachusetts, Greenslit sees her story as a warning to others. Greenslit is a therapist and...
Sunday
Apr
21
2:00 pm
Richard A. Hesse “The Founding Fathers: What Were They Thinking”
Mythology about the Founding Fathers and their work at the Convention has obscured both fact and legitimate analysis of the events leading to the agreement called the Constitution. This program explores the cast of characters called “founders,” the problems they...
Sunday
Apr
7
2:00 pm
Dana Benner “Native People and the Whaling Industry”
The late 1700s to to the mid-1800s were the golden age of whaling, with New England being the hub for the whaling fleet. These sailing ships needed crews and who better to serve than the Native people of New England....
Thursday
Mar
14
7:00 pm
Sally Matson “Margaret Bourke-White, Courageous Photographer”
“To do all the things that women never do”. In this presentation you will hear about her adventures climbing on skyscrapers, leaning out of airplanes, going into war zones. She photographed Stalin, Churchill, Patton and Gandhi. She had an indomitable...
Thursday
Nov
29
7:00 pm
Steve Edington “Bring Your Own God: The Spirituality of Woody Guthrie”
The year 2012 is the Woody Guthrie Centennial. He was born in Okemah, Oklahoma in 1912. While primarily known for his involvement in the American labor movement in the pre-World War II years, and as the author/composer of This Land...
Wednesday
Nov
28
7:00 pm
“ROLL ON COLUMBIA” – A Woody Guthrie Film & Music Tribute
In 1941 Woody Guthrie packed up his wife and kids to take a job with the U.S. department of the Interior. They needed a folksinger to promote the benefits of building dams in order to produce cheap electricity on the...
Monday
Nov
19
12:00 pm
Michael Klare “The Global Scramble for Resources”
Michael T. Klare teaches at Hampshire College, and is a Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies. Klare is a defense correspondent of The Nation magazine, and author of Resource Wars and Blood and Oil: The Dangers and...
Thursday
Nov
15
7:00 pm
“Remembering Peter Stamas: A Celebration of Community and Service”
An evening remembering Lowell educator and community leader Peter Stamas. Throughout his life, Peter S. Stamas was known as a man with many hats. Through his many varied roles as an educator and community leader, the former LHS headmaster and...
Sunday
Nov
4
2:00 pm
Ernest Hebert “How the Great Gatsby Demeans Working People”
Ernest Hebert’s most recent novel, NEVER BACK DOWN, tells the story of the life and loves of Jack Landry, a New England Franco-American working man. Hebert wrote his book as an answer to The GREAT GATSBY and DELIVERANCE, novels that...
Sunday
Oct
28
2:00 pm
Hardy Green “The Company Town”
Let’s take a tour into forgotten corners of American company towns, with special attention to Lowell, emphasizing their many similarities and unique aspects. Hardy Green outlines the the central question of American capitalism: Does the company exist for the workers...
Thursday
Oct
25
7:00 pm
Christopher Daley “Haunted History of New England”
This presentation melds historical fact together with legend and myth to produce an interesting and fascinating new look at events that really happened and the stories of haunting that followed them. The topics addressed in the lecture will be Mercy...
Monday
Oct
22
12:00 pm
“Picking the President: Panel Discussion”
Coordinated by the UMass Lowell Center for Public Opinion, a panel of experts headed by Paul Jorgensen, Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University and Assistant Professor, will discuss and debate issues from the upcoming presidential election. This...
Sunday
Oct
21
2:00 pm
James Redfearn “The Rising at Roxbury Crossing”
America is seeking its lost identity as radical revolutionaries, high unemployment, and labor unrest challenge the nation’s democratic institutions. Former Massachusetts State Trooper and author James Redfearn, will discuss his compelling story about conflict and change, during a critical period...
Saturday
Oct
13
2:00 pm
George Wallace “Visionary Voices: “Visionary Voices–A Celebration of the Connections of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, John Steinbeck, and Walt Whitman.”
The Parker Lecture speaker for the 2012 Jack Kerouac Literary Festival is George Wallace of Huntington, New york where he is the Writer in Residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace and Center. Mr. Wallace teaches literature at New York's Pace...
Thursday
Sep
27
7:00 pm
Michael Charney “Chasing Glenn Beck”
Michael Charney a local publisher and author located in Bedford, New Hampshire has recently published a book of narrative non-fiction that chronicles an attempt to uncover why political conversation suffers such polarization and, in particular, why the loudest voices--regardless of...
Monday
Sep
24
12:00 pm
Catherine Tumber “Small, Gritty, and Green”
Author Catherine Tumber of “Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World (Urban and Industrial Environments). America's once-vibrant small-to-midsize cities--Syracuse, Worcester, Akron, Flint, Rockford, and others--increasingly resemble urban wastelands. These cities would seem...
Thursday
Sep
20
7:00 pm
Tom Toohey “Irish Genealogy 101”
Come along for an animated explanation of the classic six steps to find your ancestral Irish home. Tom Toohey’s parents were great storytellers. When they passed away he published their stories in a two-volume book entitled Images of Other Lives....
Thursday
Aug
9
11:00 am
“Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem”
All of roots music is a stage for Daisy Mayhem, and this four-piece string band loves nothing more than choreographing a jubilant mix of traditional, original, and contemporary sounds. "This quartet has a rare gift for fashioning hip, sleek sounds...