Lectures tagged "Home & Garden"


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Role of Citizen Action in Solving Global Warming
Ken Ward
January 28, 2010
00:58:55
Graphic designer Ken Ward and community organizer Andree Zaleska discuss how ordinary citizens can contribute to finding solutions to global warming.
Belinda Rathbone: Tea with Miss Rose
Belinda Rathbone
December 17, 2009
00:35:31
Belinda Rathbone, co-author of Tea with Miss Rose, talks about the life and times of Rose Nichols, the Bostonian spinster who gathered a regular crowd at her townhouse on Beacon Hill in the 1950s to discuss art, politics, and world affairs over a cup of Hu-Kwa.
Margaret Atwood: Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood: Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood
October 25, 2009
00:56:56
Margaret Atwood discusses new novel, The Year of the Flood, which focuses on a group that appears in the background of Atwood's 2003 novel, Oryx and Crake: the God's Gardeners, who attempt to reconcile religion, science, and nature.
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Vintage Photographic Portraiture at the Boston Athenaeum
Sally Pierce
April 25, 2009
00:55:45
Sally Pierce discusses the images displayed in the exhibition cases in the Bayard Denry Long Room of the Boston Athenaeum. This collection includes daguerreotypes, cartes de visite, tintypes, and other vintage examples of photographic portraiture.
In Their Own Voice: Native Americans Tell Their History
Gill Solomon
April 1, 2009
01:08:19
Gill Solomon, chief sachem of the Massachuset-Ponkapoag Tribal Council, and Mary Anne Hendricks, sachem of the Natick Nipmuc Indians, talk to park rangers from the Boston Harbor Islands about how they
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Carbon-Free Home
Rebekah Hren
July 26, 2008
00:39:33
Stephen and Rebekah Hren discuss their book, The Carbon-Free Home: 36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit.
Facets of Mount Auburn: Horticulture
Daniel J. Hinkley
April 10, 2007
00:56:41
Daniel J. Hinkley, celebrated horticulturist, plant explorer, and author, looks at the influence of Asian horticulture on Western landscapes such as Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Lives and Landscapes of the French Monarchy
William Beik
March 17, 2007
00:48:57
French historian William Beik of Emory University explores the lives of the monarchs, including Kings Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI, and the transformation of French culture into the pinnacle of art and refinement.