PAST EVENT The Essence of Hospitality and a Recipe for Thanksgiving
Food is hot right now. Everybody is talking about food, in kitchens, restaurants, blogs, over the dinner table—especially as Thanksgiving approaches. A recipe’s public life provides GPS-like instructions on how to prepare the food, its secret life provides hospitality–guidelines for nourishing family and friendships; tradition and imagination, culture and community. Thanksgiving, which many consider the […]
PAST EVENT The Lioness of Boston
Join Author Emily Franklin on her new novel The Lioness of Boston By the time Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her Italian palazzo-style home as a museum in 1903 to showcase her collection of old masters, antiques, and objects d’art, she was already well-known for scandalizing Boston’s polite society. But when Isabella first arrived in Boston […]
PAST EVENT The Brad Ellenberg Band
This concert will feature a mix of originals and time – honored jazz classics. Embark on a mesmerizing journey with Portrait In Jazz, a band that effortlessly weaves together the essence of Jazz’s Golden Era with their own unique touch of creative innovation. They are a dynamic, original jazz band with over fifty originals […]
PAST EVENT Winslow Homer, American Passage
Join Author Bill Cross on his new book, Winslow Homer, American Passage Bill Cross tells the stories of American whose works are known, but whose lives are not. On this visit to North Hill he will speak about the subject of his book Winslow Homer: American Passage. The Washington Post called his tale of Homer, […]
PAST EVENTCombating Hate
Racism, Anti-Semitism, Asian hate, Misogyny, Sexism, Homophobia – so many divisions and so many ways to hate, can we ever change? Founded in 1913 following the wrongful lynching of Leo Frank, the Anti-Defamation League’s timeless mission has remained the same, to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment […]
PAST EVENT Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
Join popular presenter Johnny Kinsman for an illustrated reading of Charles Dickens’ beloved novella A Christmas Carol. Richly Illustrated with new slides slides and sound effects, Kinsman’s vivid portrayal of each character, usher in the season “when men and women seem by one consent to open their shuttered hearts freely.”Kinsman designed this abridged reading of […]
PAST EVENT North Hill and Needham Open Studios!
This year, for the first time, North Hill is participating in Needham Open Studios, an art walk featuring the creative works of artits throughout the Town of Needham. On view in our main gallery see the art of Laurie Kaplowitz along with works from North Hill resident artists and team members in our Wellspring Landing […]
PAST EVENT: Tam Tam Gisé with Prof. Robert Bellinger and his colleague, Paul Assegai Baba Onílu
Tuesday, April 11 | 2:00 PM Tam Tam Gisé, which means drums that talk together, is a presentation of the jembe drum orchestra of West Africa by Dr. Robert “Sipho” Bellinger who is joined by veteran jembe drummer Paul Assegai Baba Onilu. The presentation will give members of the audience an opportunity to take part […]
PAST EVENT Sharkey, with author Gary Bohan
Tuesday, May 9 at 2 PM Sharkey was an unusually gifted, trained sea lion who shared the stage with practically every important performer of the first half of the 20th century—from Bob Hope to Ella Fitzgerald, from Broadway to Hollywood and beyond. For decades, Sharkey and his flippered colleagues traveled the world with stops at […]
PAST EVENT Remember the Ladies with Johnny Kinsman
Monday, May 22 at 11 AM Even older than this great nation is the flawed adage that behind every great man is a great woman, but if the origin story of the United States proves anything, it’s that our success has come not from great women behind men, but beside them. While Jefferson declared our […]