by Drew Adamek | Mar 10, 2012 | The Public Humanist
Susan Stinson is a novelist, historical tour guide, writing coach, speaker and the writer-in-residence for the Forbes Library in Northampton. She has published three novels, and recently completed a fourth, “Spider in a Tree”, a historical novel about the...
by Aaron F. Miller | Mar 12, 2012 | The Public Humanist
On a recent weekend I attended a fascinating one-day symposium, Exploring the 1704 Raid, sponsored by Historic Deerfield Inc., that focused on the French and Native American attack on the frontier settlement of Deerfield. This event, in part funded by Mass Humanities,...
by Janeann Dill | Mar 19, 2012 | The Public Humanist
A dictionary begins when it no longer gives the meaning of words, but their tasks. — Georges Bataille It is most often the case when I refer to my work as experimental animation that I am met with the question, what is experimental animation? I am instantly...
by Carolyn Shadid Lewis | Mar 26, 2012 | The Public Humanist
I remember my grandmother sharing stories of her days growing up in Oklahoma, after her family emigrated from Lebanon. She described her family’s small house situated on the expansive Oklahoma plains during the dust bowl that swept the state. Each time she told...
by Allison Carter | Mar 29, 2012 | The Public Humanist
When Americans today think of slavery, many think of the antebellum South. Slavery, however, is part of New England history as well. Over the course of centuries, Americans living in the North have divorced themselves from the history of slavery in their communities....