Events for: Lowell Community Health Center

The author of “Banned in Boston: The Watch and Ward Society’s Crusade Against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil” will talk about the group that banned books, closed down theaters and burlesque houses, and extended Massachusetts’s puritan heritage into the 1940’s and 50’s.

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 in 2005 and profiled in this year’s Salute to Women by the Lowell Sun. In 2001 she earned the New England Book Award. Lipman’s 1990 novel Then She Found Me was made into a movie in 2007 starring Bette Midler, Colin Firth and Helen Hunt.

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 tour of duty as a marine battlefield doctor in Vietnam that he was unable to live a normal life. The author delivers an unflinching narrative chronicling his four-decade battle with the unseen enemy in his own mind as he struggled with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

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 Bass Flute, which provide a six octave range nearly covering the full range of a piano and an orchestra. Harmonie Transverse is under the umbrella of the Wachusett Regional High School’s Artist in Residence program: TEMPO (To Encourage Musical Performance Opportunities).

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 long hike, Wendy decided to share what she learned. Living and walking on a long trail for months where so much of the external stimuli is eliminated, allows for time and space to receive lessons. The story she tells is personal, spiritual, and ultimately about reclaiming one’s life.

Twelve Strategies for Personal Health and a Culture of Wellness. No one is immune to poor health. Burnout, for example, which affects a third of the U.S. population, is present in over 50% of health professionals. Dr Pipas, a family physician with over 25 years of experience, shares lessons gleaned from patients, students and colleagues along her own journey toward personal wellness and her quest to promote self-care in others. Dr. Pipas is a professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.