by Sharon Shaloo | Jul 24, 2008 | The Public Humanist
This is the first of what I hope will become regular posts to the Public Humanist. I’m writing from the new offices of the Massachusetts Center for the Book, which will officially open its doors this fall on the campus of Historic Northampton. The office was...
by M. A. Schorr | Jul 28, 2008 | The Public Humanist
The starting point of the Lasting Legacies exhibition at the Lawrence Library opening October 25, 2008, will be two remarkable Williams and their wills: William Wolcott, whose last will and testament bequeathed a collection of impressionist paintings to the people of...
by Larry Hott | Jul 31, 2008 | The Public Humanist
I have some very close friends who annoy me no end with questions such as, "When are you going to make a real movie." "What do you mean," I ask. "Aren’t documentaries real enough for you?" "Well, documentaries are OK, but why...
by Tim Wright | Aug 8, 2008 | The Public Humanist
How do documentary media differ from narrative media? STOP RIGHT THERE, my wife says. You are supposed to be blogging, not writing an essay, and a stiff, academic, atherosclerotic one at that. But, I whine, The Public Humanist is not really about blogging, which needs...
by Pleun Clara Bouricius | Aug 15, 2008 | The Public Humanist
My mother has a new neighbor–again. Since I moved to the United States in 1981, my mother, Attie, and I talk on the phone every Sunday morning at 10 am. In June of 2001, she announced casually that she had a new neighbor.Attie and her husband Chris live in a...
