I don’t know how we arrived at a place where we thought everyone would support democracy because it was an intellectually superior form of government. All of human history contradicts that notion.
After Keillor was dismissed, a subsequent MPR news investigation revealed "a years-long pattern of behavior that left several women who worked for Keillor feeling mistreated, sexualized or belittled."
Armchair travelers have quite a trip in store for them this week, as our audiobooks are set in France, San Francisco, the islands of the Pacific and Botswana.
Simon Winchester's 'The Perfectionists' traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.
“I wanted to create a sense of community in a town that has no downtown or sense of cohesion given that it’s spread out over 53 square miles. And I believe the paper has done that to a certain degree.”
-- Simon Winchester, founding editor of The Sandisfield Times
“I try to make paintings that are beautiful, frightening, and funny all at once, similar to the Theater of the Absurd, which assumes things are so bad that you can only laugh.” --artist Morgan Bulkeley
'Challenging Stigma' will touch on topics such as why society stigmatizes certain individuals, groups and conditions; and how stigma is used to marginalize and silence difference and dissent.
For nearly 50 years, Bill Morgan has acted as the archivist and bibliographer for writers including Ginsberg, Arthur Miller, Oliver Sacks, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Timothy Leary, Susan Sontag and Abbie Hoffman.
Perhaps by exposing these places of ‘fear’ we can finally exorcise the shame and guilt, and move forward rather than blame the victim or shame the oppressors. In other words, I hope we will always remember and try to forgive.
-- Setsuko Winchester, creator of Freedom From Fear/Yellow Bowl Project
The Mount has announced the recipients of the 2017 Edith Wharton Writers-in-Residence: Christene Barberich, global editor-in-chief and co-founder of the lifestyle media company Refinery29; author and screenwriter Donna M. Lucey; and award-winning novelist Vanessa Manko.
The Bizalions have seen an outpouring of support from the community and, given the relief no one was hurt, there have been plenty of jokes on social media and at the store, just to make this retail setback somewhat bearable.
The Hoosac Tunnel, which opened for rail traffic in 1875, took over 25 years to build, cost millions of dollars to construct, and claimed more than 100 lives.
The geological history of the Pacific Ocean has long transformed us but, from a Western perspective, its human history is quite young, beginning with Magellan’s 16th-century circumnavigation.
--- Author Simon Winchester, on his new book about the Pacific Ocean
At the Berkshire Botanical Garden presentation audience members will learn about A.A. Milne’s childhood in the natural world, how he and illustrator E.H. Shepard became the Lennon and McCartney of children’s literature.
