by Juno Lamb | Jun 28, 2013 | The Public Humanist
My husband is teaching a class called “Forbidden Fictions” this summer, to a self-selected group of high school almost-seniors. One of his first thoughts: “This might be the only opportunity I ever get to teach Lolita to high school students.”...
by Mark Santow | Jul 8, 2013 | The Public Humanist
A political prisoner changed my life. That man, now free — always free, really — wore number 466 at Robben Island prison in South Africa. Today, he is slowly dying in a hospital bed in Pretoria. I know Nelson Mandela won’t have the opportunity to...
by Mary Beth Meehan | Jul 11, 2013 | The Public Humanist
If you walk along Main Street in Brockton’s downtown, you will see huge photographs, printed on banners and hanging from buildings. They were made by Brockton teens as part of the City of Champions: Youth Vision in Context project. “It’s like an...
by Debra J'Anthony | Jul 18, 2013 | The Public Humanist
Tucked away under the Academy Front of House Manager’s make-shift desk, in a worn cardboard letter box filled with dated documents and letters, slept a story, an Academy of Music story from 1940 that centered around a strong-willed, spirited woman, named Mildred...
by Maggi Smith-Dalton | Jul 29, 2013 | The Public Humanist
As we enter the dimly lit room, adorned with family portraits and photographs, Orthodox icons glowing on walls, a frisson of mixed excitement and sadness engulfs me. Here, at hand, are fragments from a historical saga which has haunted my imagination since childhood....
