PAST EVENT Themes and Variations with artists Jodi Colella and Ingrid Scheibler
PAST EVENT Theme and Variations with artists Jodi Colella and Ingrid Scheibler April through June in the Art Gallery Two artists who work with similar shapes and colors, one in fabric and one in paint, with very different sensibilities. Jodi’s wall of fabric poppies, last seen at the Fuller Museum, is a hand-stitched memorial […]
PAST EVENT From Page to Stage
PAST EVENT From Stage to Page with award-winning stage director Bryn Boice Thursday, MARCH 24, 4 PM Live theatre begins when a playwright has an idea for a plot. But when the script is completed, a director, actors and a team of technicians set out to bring the story to life.How does a director stay […]
PAST EVENT Author’s Talk, Rebels at Sea with Eric Jay Dolin
PAST EVENT Author’s Talk, Rebels At Sea with best-selling author/historian Eric Jay Dolin Thursday, MAY 26 | 4:00 PM The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet missing from most maritime histories of America’s first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels that truly […]
PAST EVENT —– Black Heroes of the American Revolution
Black Heroes of the American Revolution with Lecturer and Presenter Johnny Kinsman THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 11 AM While 18th Century American land owners, merchants and businessmen began to grumble about perceived economic and sovereign oppression by the British empire, many men and women struggling on the American continent had arrived there as captives from their […]
PAST EVENT Lifeline: My Year in Quarantine with Hildegard Von Bingen, with Soprano Ann Moss
Lifeline: My Year in Quarantine with Hildegard Von Bingen, with Opera Soprano Ann Moss TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 4 PM A modern-day interpretation of the music of Hildegard Von Bingen (the first documented Woman Composer!) distilled through the lens of Ms. Moss’ experiences in quarantine. For Lifeline, she has partnered with musicians around the country to […]
PAST EVENT —– Women and Children First
Women and Children First: The Remarkable Life of Dr. Susan Dimmock TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2021 , 11 AM A PowerPoint lecture by Susan Wilson, from her biography-in-progress To her contemporaries in Boston of the 1870s, Susan Dimmock was well known as a strong, selfless innovator in American medicine — one of the first group of […]
PAST EVENT A Furious Sky, The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes with Eric Jay Dolin, PhD
A Furious Sky with author Eric Jay Dolin. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 4 PM From the moment European colonists laid violent claim to this land, hurricanes have had a profound and visceral impact on American history— yet, no one has attempted to write the definitive account of America’s entanglement with these meteorological behemoths. Now, bestselling historian […]
PAST EVENT The Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act with North Hill Resident Tom Chin TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 10 am. Have you ever wondered why there were so few working class Chinese, yet so many laundries and restaurants during the 1900s through the 1950s? Come to this lecture and find out. Around the time The California Gold Rush began (1849), […]
PAST EVENT Miscarriages of Justice, Why do they Happen?
Miscarriages of Justice, Why do they Happen? with North Hill Resident and Professor Emeritus of Law, Boston University, Stanley Z. Fisher FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2021, AT 4 PM In the twenty-plus years since courts began accepting DNA test results into evidence, many wrongfully convicted prisoners have been exonerated. North Hill Resident Stanley Z. Fisher, Professor […]
PAST EVENT Mutation, Vaccination, Immunization, and What-in-Tarnation?
Thursday, February 18, 11 AM with North Hill Resident, Anne Weaver, M.D. For a year we have been locking down, isolating, and feeling fearful as the novel Coronavirus swept across the world. Now there is finally hope of taming this virus with vaccination. In this presentation, North Hill resident Anne Weaver, M.D. will help us […]