by Michael Millner | Apr 14, 2011 | The Public Humanist
“In my opinion Lowell, Massachusetts is now the most interesting city in the United States of America,” Jack Kerouac enthusiastically proclaimed on a local Lowell radio show in 1962. He told the interviewers that he was back in his boyhood city for a...
by Natasha Haverty and Adam M. Bright | Apr 18, 2011 | The Public Humanist
In 1933, a few of the inmates at the new prison in Norfolk, MA decided to form a debate club. Their first coach was a woman named Cerise Jack, a regular visitor to the prison. For the first few years the men held practice matches amongst themselves, arguing the...
by Adam Mazo | Apr 21, 2011 | The Public Humanist
On March 7th I woke up to this unexpected email from Nigeria: “I am pleased to inform you that your DOCUMENTARY, COEXIST, is nominated in the BEST DOCUMENTARY category of the Africa movie Academy Awards 2011 edition holding in Bayelsa State on the 27TH MARCH...
by Bob Meagher | Apr 26, 2011 | The Public Humanist
These few words were written to introduce Jon Peede and Andrew Carroll, the creators and guiding spirits of Operation Homecoming, at a recent public meeting of the Pioneer Valley Veterans Writers Project, sponsored by the Veterans Education Project. Operation...
by Norah Dooley | May 4, 2011 | The Public Humanist
There is a bell or a buzzer and then–an explosion of noise! It’s the change of classes. Whether in Everett or Newburyport, we were carried on waves of energy and words from the quiet end of one class to the subdued beginning of the next. Yes! Here was the...
