Why the Civil War?

Several members of Five College Learning in Retirement have been spending the last several months organizing 5CLIR Sesquicentennial Symposium: Civil War Causes and Consequences, a Mass Humanities’ funded project that respond’s to the foundation’s...

What's in a Photograph?

I visited Mary Beth Meehan’s City of Champions, a display of large-scale images of Brockton residents on the walls of buildings in downtown Brockton. Meehan photographs people she gets to know and comes across in Brockton, a town that is struggling with economic...

Paris Wasn't the Only Destination

I recently watched an interview with David McCullough on Book-TV, a marvelous weekend program on C-Span2 that I heartily recommend. The principal subject of the interview was McCullough’s admirable new book, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, which, as its...

Mentoring

Those Dummies books can be really useful when you just need to know enough to keepa conversation going, have questions you’re embarrassed to ask, or when arudimentary level of knowledge is adequate. Building a Website for Dummies, HomeMaintenance for Dummies,...