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  • From the Archives: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird

    We hope you’ll enjoy an archive program featuring a conversation with journalist Andrew D. Blechman author of “Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World’s Most Revered and Reviled Bird” (Grove Press, 2006). Blechman takes us from pigeon shoots to pigeon races; and from the quarters of Queen Elizabeth’s Royal Pigeon Handler to a radical pro-pigeon […]

  • Becoming a Nun in the Sixties

    What is it like to live in a convent today? What was it like in the turbulent 1960s? Sister Karol Jackowski shocked her friends and family when she decided to enter a convent after high school in 1964. Her experiences within paralleled the changing climate outside the convent’s walls. Sister Karol will join us this […]