Maureen Cavanagh is the author of “If You Love Me: A Mother’s Journey through Her Daughter’s Addiction and Recovery,” published by Henry Holt, a national public speaker on the opioid crisis and its’ impact on the family, co-host of the podcast, “Collateral Damage, and the founder of Magnolia New Beginnings, a national nonprofit peer-support group […]
Venezuelan violist, conductor, and pedagogue Aleksandre Roderick-Lorenz hails from Caracas where his musical foundation began under the auspices of the famed "El Sistema" organisation. His musical journey later continued in Miami under the tutelage of María Antonieta Salas. A versatile musician, Roderick-Lorenz enjoys a dynamic career as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. He performs a wide range of musical genres […]
Maureen Stanton is the author of Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019), which was a People Magazine “Best New Books” pick, and Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: An Insider’s Look at the World of Flea Markets, Antiques, and Collecting (Penguin 2012), winner of a Massachusetts Book Award. Her […]
Tom Briere is a Massachusetts-based photographer who has been passionate about photography for over 40 years. His subject interests include discovering the artistic forms and simplicity in found objects under natural light. He was trained as a classical portrait and wedding photographer but in recent years has been focused on landscape, architecture and, most recently, […]
Cindy Loranger is known for always thinking outside of the box, creator of new ideas, motivator, inspirer and is full of passion about what she believes in. As an abstract artist, Cindy has evolved from realism to abstract expressionism, primarily inspired by music - mostly jazz and street music. The infusion of two contradictory styles […]
Bruce Robert Coffin is the bestselling author of the Detective Byron mystery series. A former detective sergeant with more than twenty-seven years in law enforcement, he supervised all homicide and violent crime investigations for Maine's largest city. Following the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Bruce spent four years investigating counter-terrorism cases for the FBI, earning […]
Lucilda Dassardo-Cooper paints, designs and exhibits her art in the United States, the Caribbean, India, and places that traverse the cultural and geographic boundaries of her origin and ancestry. Her layered style of painting reflects her own background as an immigrant whose consciousness retains images of her birthplace alongside those of her adopted country. This […]
"The lotus flower is a natural symbol of a beautiful creature that grows strong and pure even though it grows in mud. I wanted to give this idea a sound, and here we are!" - Paola Munda (founder and director of The Lotus Sound) The Lotus Sound is an experimental circle singing group based in […]
As a young child, Sara Schechner learned painting and needlework from her grandmother. By day, the two traipsed around the Jersey shore with sketchbook and paints, setting up their easels side-by-side in marinas, on beaches, and by historic buildings. At night, she joined her in embroidery, needlepoint, and other needle arts. Sewing with a machine […]
Dan Szczesny is a long-time journalist, author, and speaker living in New Hampshire. He’s written several books of travel memoir (The Adventures of Buffalo and Tough Cookie, Mosquito Rain), fiction (Sing and Other Stories) and poetry (Invincible One, Poems). His book, The Nepal Chronicles, about a month-long trek to Everest Base Camp and marriage in […]
