I went to an excellent symposium on bluegrass music at Harvard yesterday, organized by the Harvard student American Music Association and the university’s Committee on Degrees in Folklore & Mythology. It made me proud to work at Harvard.
Yesterday morning, in anticipation of that event, I added to this blog some some lyrics that I have written. If you’re looking for a hymn to sing at church this coming season of Lent, check out “Suburban Hymn.”
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An opportunity to bring climate change to the media. Street theater under the theme “Boston Under Water.” 24 October 2009, 3:00pm – 5:30pm. Christopher Columbus Park, Aquarium T Stop.
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Environment, September/October 2009 —“Twitter, the microblogging Web site that enables users to post unlimited messages of 140 characters or less, became the fastest-growing Internet communication tool earlier this year, according to Nielsen Online. It reached 1.2 million unique visitors in May 2008 and 18.2 million this May, a more than fourteenfold increase. As with any general broadcast communication tool, Twitter can provide a helpful service to those with….” (more)
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Environment, June 2007 — Among those who care about the outdoors, few activities arouse such disparate feelings as hunting. For many in the United States, hunting brings to mind time spent in nature, parents teaching their children, and sometimes, given patience and skill, extra meat for the freezer. For others, hunting evokes thoughts of endangered species, the international bushmeat crisis, the risk of injuries from firearms, and ethical issues regarding eating meat. The mention…. (more)
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Environment, May/June 2009. “Sustainability science reaches across many different disciplines, encompassing natural sciences, social sciences, and policy research—but the discipline of geography comes closest to tying it all together. Geography is a core discipline of sustainability science. Five of the 23 eminent scientists and policy analysts who coauthored the seminal 27 April 2001 Science article “Sustainability Science” (see an extended preprint at http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sustsci/ists/docs/2000-33.pdf) are geographers, including….” (more)
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I’m looking forward to this week’s appearance of the Bluegrass Gospel Project in Acton, MA. BGP is an underappreciated gem: international talent, largely New England appearances. 
They’re playing at 7:30 p.m., May 1, 2009 at the South Acton Congregational Church. It’s a lovely, warm, intimate setting. And it will be the place to be in New England on May 1 if you like bluegrass or folk music, whether religious or secular. Here’s a sample, “Get Together,” from their latest album, and a favorite, “All Prayed Up,” from their fourth album. For concert details, see the Facebook listing, the church event listing, or order tickets at MKTix. Accessible by public transportation. Take the Fitchburg Line commuter rail to South Acton Station from North Station, Boston, or Porter Square, Cambridge. Walk five minutes to the concert (map).
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Thanks to a drawing that they had for early adopters, I became a poster child for the new library automobile license plate campaign in Massachusetts. I posed with with Lois Lowry, an author of children’s and young adult literature.
Lois received the Newbury medal in 1990 for Number the Stars, a book set in Denmark under Nazi control, and again in 1994 for The Giver, a book that explores darkness in a seemingly perfect world.
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The documentary film The Hollywood Librarian is now available for sale! This film, a labor of love by librarian and director Annie Seidl, uses films as a hook to examine the joys and challenges of being a librarian in the present day.
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Environment, January/February 2009. “The beginning of a new presidential administration is a good time to explore the tremendous amount of environmental information to be had from the U.S. government, both new and old. At this time, many in the environmental field may be considering ways to become a part of the new administration. Every four years, the U.S. Congress publishes a list of approximately 8,000 jobs that are or may be political appointments. This publication, United States….” (more)
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