Harvard2 Cambridge, Boston, and beyond 12B Extracurriculars Events on and off campus in September and October 12D Day of the Dead Celebrate lost loved ones at the Peabody Museum 12H Hull’s Lifesaving Legacy Casting lifelines 12J Animating a New Species Dutch Strandbeests 12F An Ipswich Idyll Restorations revive the grand spirit of a North Shore estate. 12N Diverse Caribbean Flavors The Cambridge Carnival NELL PORTER BROWN Harvard Magazine 12a Re ond sid nd Resid HARVARD SQUARED Re m en o e nd sid t m n o m e i t m a n a m i t l a a m H i a a l l H H YEARS 00 YEARS YEARS 1 0033 1 9 00 1 8 0 1 33 1 - 2 R 98 11 ond esid 33 1 1 0 - 2 m en 9 11 t 81 - 20 m i a a l H YEARS 00 33 1 9 1 81 - 201 LLERY, LLERY, A G N OSE R A DRE N RCHIVE A OURTESY A Extracurriculars FILM C Harvard Film Archive RD FILM A USEUM; RV Events on and off campus during September and October M www.hcl.harvard.edu/hfa T Cambridge Ha West Medford...Stately brick Colonial in Brooks ...Gorgeous views of the Charles River Cambridge...Gorgeous, thoughtfully renovated 19th- A retrospective of the vintage-style films of R Estate with 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2½ bathrooms, from this meticulously, newly renovated fth- century gambrel residence on very desirable CKERT; CKERT; 2-car garage. 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Choir Boy, starring Courtney Love, follows visitors, perhaps revealing the changeable The Harvard-Smith- ones—is an annual spiritual celebration in Mexico and parts lovers who are unexpectedly separated by nature of mental reflections and corporeal sonian Center for As- of Latin America. The concept originated with the Aztecs DANCE fate. (October 1-10) perceptions. (October 1-25; check the cen- trophysics (CfA) plans and now combines aspects of Mesoamerican beliefs and ritu- Charles River Museum of ter’s website for show times) to open late on Sep- als with Catholic traditions, especially those enacted on All Industry & Innovation LECTURES tember 27 for a “Lu- Saints’ Day. The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnol- www.charlesrivermuseum.org Mahindra Humanities Center Schlesinger Library nar Eclipse Party”— ogy highlights the holiday on November 1 with its own Día Of Looms and Lilies, by local www.mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu www.radcliffe.harvard.edu because “It’s an astronomical party for ng Y de los Muertos family event featuring Mexican folk dances, Masks, mariachi G choreographer Jody Weber, examines the The Hauser Forum for the Arts presents Letters, diary excerpts, photographs, and us,” quips public-affairs specialist Christine OLO SE STERLI N live mariachi music, sugar-skull decorating, and traditional music, and sugar effects of the Industrial Revolution’s mate- “An Evening with David Grossman,” the other artifacts on display in The Women of Pulliam. (Any real lunatic celebrants must N TH skulls at Harvard’s E LPHO A snacks like pan de muerto (bread of the dead). Y & rial wealth on the human spirit within the Israeli author of Falling Out of Time and To the Blackwell Family: Resilience and leave their drinks and dancing outside G Peabody Museum C/ Traditionally, the holi- context of climate change. (October 2) the End of the Land. (October 6) Change highlight Elizabeth Blackwell, the the observatory.) A total eclipse occurs F /MS EOLO A A day is marked by visits to cemeteries to decorate first woman in the United States to earn a when the sun, earth, and full moon align S na ARCH graves and sometimes to sing, play music, and F The Institute of Contemporary Art EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS medical degree, and her industrious rela- and block the sun’s rays from being re- dance. In homes, families adorn altars with pho- www.icaboston.org Harvard Art Museums tives. (Opens October 5) flected off the moon. Rarely—but very USEUM O tographs of the deceased as well as with the ob- M In Faye Driscoll’s Thank You for Coming: www.harvardartmuseums.org dramatically—the moon turns blood-red. jects and foods they loved, flowers, incense and BODY Attendance, five dancers embody the rig- Corita Kent and the Language of Pop Worcester Art Museum (The next one isn’t until January 31, 2018.) A E candles, and religious imagery. The Peabody has P orous and often funny complexities of explores the artist’s 1960s screenprints and www.worcesterart.org On September 27 visitors will go straight THE its own permanent altar that holds items from the F group dynamics. (October 8-10) films, along with her 1971 mural on the Na- Poignant portraits of children are among up to the telescopes on the roof; totality Melvin collection of Mexican folk art; visitors on tional Grid gas tank in Boston; learn more more than 40 works by the home-grown starts at 10:11 P.M. 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