In her presentation, Dr. Jennifer Michaels will describe the disease of addiction; explain how people become addicted to substances, with a focus on heroin and prescription pills; and discuss how treatments and recovery work.
Musician, singer-songwriter and slam poet Dom Flemons is a founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an African-American string band that won a Grammy Award in 2010.
As the chair of entomology and wildlife ecology at the University of Delaware, Douglas Tallamy studies how invasive species can disrupt local ecosystems and lead to the disappearance of both large and small animals.
“Eighty years after Edith Wharton’s death, we continue to live in a time where “society is imposing restrictions and conventions on women.”
-- Edith Wharton Writer-in-Residence Christene Barberich
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.
A number of emerging public policy issues at the state and federal level will have an immediate impact on Massachusetts nonprofits and span across subsector, budget size and region.
Around 2 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 23, Boston University students, organized by the campus group Divest BU, walked out of classes and met for a rally at the George Sherman Union plaza on campus.
Cousins Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth were born eight months and 20 blocks apart in New York City and spent much of their childhoods together, but their politics and personalities were very distinct.
Most recently Finn Wittrock, who grew up in Shakespeare & Company, was seen in the Oscar-nominated film “The Big Short” opposite Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale and Steve Carell.
Hailed as America’s premier summer music festival, Tanglewood has been the summer home of the BSO since its creation in 1937, providing high-quality musical performances amidst the pastoral beauty of the Berkshires.
While she built the Mount in Lenox, Edith Wharton was still an occasional houseguest in Newport, a familiar stomping ground that formed the backdrop for one or more of her novels.
