July 16, 2024 - The Million Year Picnic at 50, the Lowell Folk Festival, and Sea Monsters

The Million Year Picnic is the oldest comic book store in New England and since the 1970’s it’s been a fixture in Harvard Square. This summer it marks its 50th anniversary. Tony Davis, the owner,  joins  The Culture Show to talk about its legacy and how they are marking this moment.Then we’re off  to Lowell by way of their annual folk festival, which features  a mariachi band, parades, a yo-yo-world champion, Creole music, bluegrass, honky tonk and more. The director,  Lee Viliesis, joins The Culture Show for a preview.Finally we plumb the depths of the human imagination by plunging into the depths of the ocean  with a look at Sea monsters, the subject of a new exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Peter Girguis, guest curator and Harvard professor of organic and evolutionary biology joins us to talk about it.