Archive - March 2014

Timeless: Photography of Rowland Scherman Edited by Michael E. Jones and Christine Jones Foreword by Judy Collins “Where’s that kid with the camera?” – 1961 Peace Corps administrator Tom Matthews I wore my Leica under my jacket for some reason. I moved my lapel back to show them and said, “Here I am.” –Excerpt from Rowland Scherman’s Timeless essay on his first assignment with the Peace Corps. Photographs include: Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Arthur Ashe, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, Stephen Stills, John Lennon and the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Barbara Walters, and many more. From the Foreword by Judy Collins “Rowland became a freelance photographer for LIFE magazine in the mid-sixties and the next time we met, I had a big hit with Joni Mitchell’s song, “Both Sides Now,” in 1967 on my album Wildflowers. Irene Nieves, a top editor at LIFE, decided she wanted to do a cover story on my career. . . .

Balancing the Personal and the Political Thursday, March 6, 2014, 7 p.m. Kripalu Center Lenox, Mass Panel Discussion with Carol Ascher, Laurie Lisle and Marnie Mueller Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Route 183, Lenox, 7 p.m.  Seating is limited, pre-registration required.  Please call 866-200-5203 Three feminist writers, each with different rich experiences and long-developed perspectives, will explore the potential challenges and conflicts of simultaneously “writing the self” and “righting the world.” Although the writers on this panel have spent years deeply concerned about environmental dangers to our planet as well as other burning political issues, we are predominantly writers of memoir and fiction. In our everyday lives we have taken strong activist positions, though when we sit down to write, our outrage at the world’s injustices more often than not serves as subtext in our work. The desire to right the world can be hidden in personal obsessions, or . . .

From Books & Books press release Barbara Joe will read from Confessions of Secret Latina: How I Fell Out of Love with Castro & In Love with the Cuban People March 2, Sunday 4 p.m. 265 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, Florida Whatever your ethnic background or personal opinion of Fidel Castro, you will find something new and revealing in this book. It offers a frank firsthand account of one woman’s journey, not only through Cuba, but through a life filled with unique challenges and tragedies. When Castro first rose to power, Barbara Joe, like so many Americans, was entranced by the romantic vision of a scrubby revolutionary defeating the hated dictator Fulgencio Batista. But her years of direct experience with Cubans and within Cuba itself gradually eroded that vision. Then, unexpectedly, she found herself being attacked by a once close friend of Latino heritage, who not only vehemently disagreed with . . .