Lectures tagged "New England"

Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy
Paula Butturini
March 2, 2010
00:59:57
Journalist Paula Butturini talks about her new memoir Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy. Paula and John met in Italy, fell in love, and four years later, married in Rome. But less than a month after the wedding, tragedy struck.
Robert S. Lyons: A Life of Bert Bell
Robert S. Lyons
January 30, 2010
00:41:39
Editor and sports writer Robert S. Lyons discusses his new biography, On Any Given Sunday: A Life of Bert Bell, joined by Bell's son Upton, himself a former football executive and currently a radio commentator.
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Mr. and Mrs. Prince: Out of Slavery and Into Legend
Gretchen Gerzina Holbrook
June 12, 2008
00:54:01
Gretchen Gerzina Holbrook, author of Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend, tells the remarkable true story of a pre-Civil War African-American family in New England. Mr. and Mrs.
Christmas in New England
Amy Whorf McGuiggan
December 7, 2006
00:55:14
Author Amy Whorf McGuiggan traces New England holiday traditions and discusses America's vision of a New England Christmas. Christmas, as we celebrate it today, is a relatively recent invention.
Shell Disease in American Lobsters
Michael Tlusty
April 3, 2006
00:59:38
Michael Tlusty discusses how shell disease is impacting lobster fishery, about state of the art research on shell disease, and what the future holds for New England's most valuable fishery.
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Women of Peace: 2005 Nobel Peace Prize Winners
Kip Tiernan
October 24, 2005
01:16:59
Kip Tiernan and Betty Burkes, two Nobel Peace Prize-nominated women from New England, talk about women worldwide engaged in the cause of peace and human dignity. This year 1,000 women from more than 150 countries around the world were jointly nominated for the famous Nobel Peace Prize.
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Slavery and the Law in New England
Philip D. Morgan
April 22, 2004
01:55:00
A panel discusses the recent compilation of data related to the slave trade in New England that makes this an auspicious time to examine the region's role in the trade.
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Native American Slave Trade in New England
Thomas Doughton
April 22, 2004
01:57:25
Panelists from around the country converge to discuss how the history of the Native American slave trade taints New England's past.