Entries from March 1, 2007 - March 31, 2007
Spring/summer 2007 special events
Recommended upcoming New England festivals and events
Newport International Film Festival (Newport, RI) June 5-10, 2007 www.newportfilmfestival.com
Nantucket Film Festival (Nantucket, MA) June 13-17, 2007 www.nantucketfilmfestival.org
Art in the Barn (Essex, MA) June 15-17, 2007 www.ecga.org/Events/aib.html
Marblehead Festival of Arts (Marblehead, MA) June 30-July 4, 2007 www.marbleheadfestival.org
Micro & Mini Car Day (Brookline, MA) July 14, 2007 www.mot.org
Spring/summer/early fall 2007 continuing education
Recommended New England Courses about House, Garden, and Related Creative Arts
(Classes and schedules are subject to change so check program websites for updates.)
The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
Adult Education
Located in Jamaica Plain, MA, “The Arnold Arboretum’s adult education program offers one-day and multi-session horticulture, botany, and landscape-related courses for the beginner, avid amateur, and professional,” according to their website. I’ve taken some tree and plant identification courses here and found them affordable and enlightening. This evening offering sounds promising:
Katie Hutchison
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Reading review: The Architecture of Happiness
In the last chapter of his book, when discussing the possibility of evolving tastes, de Botton writes, “It is books, poems and paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.” Certainly this is the achievement of de Botton’s book, to reveal what we may have known but failed to appreciate.
Reading review: Cottage for Sale, Must be Moved
This is a sweet memoir about a small project with a small budget and the rewards of savoring a small opportunity. Kate Whouley invites us into her life among her family, friends, planners, town administrators, movers, contractors and inner musings to share her tale of her simple wish to marry her modest 1950’s Cape to a minimal cottage of the same vintage on her quiet Cape Cod property.
