by Carolyn Cushing | Aug 6, 2013 | The Public Humanist
I write this in the margin of my packet of readings for the Literature & Medicine session on the theme of memories. The packet includes poems by U.S. veterans and an Iraqi poet, a short story by a Vietnamese writer, and a piece from the Massachusetts Review...
by Christopher Volpe | Aug 7, 2013 | The Public Humanist
“The attempt to see in a large way is the point. Your studies are not of much importance, but you cannot overvalue the mental effort.” “Seeing big” is what Lynn-born painter Charles H. Woodbury drummed into the more than 4,000 students who...
by Peggy Cahill | Aug 28, 2013 | The Public Humanist
Mary, age 95, a former opera singer and world traveler, currently a resident of Golden Living Center in Gloucester, enters the Cape Ann Museum (CAM) on a summer Tuesday morning. Along with Annie, Richie, two staff from Golden Living, and three museum program...
by Maggi Smith-Dalton | Sep 10, 2013 | The Public Humanist
The religious movement known as “Spiritualism” permeated nineteenth-century life, growing so rapidly that, by 1869, Emma Hardinge [Britten](1823–1899), historian of the first two decades of the religion, estimated that there were eleven million...
by Brian Glyn Williams | Oct 3, 2013 | The Public Humanist
I first began traveling to Afghanistan soon after the 2001 liberation of the country from the Taliban and, despite the extreme dangers, poverty, and lack of development, came to love this war torn land and her people. My journeys there gave me tremendous insight into...
