Daily Archives: March 27, 2016


Saturday, May 7 – Sunday, June 5 – Junior League of Boston’s 45th Annual Show House

Celebrating the 45th Anniversary of Show House, the Junior League of Boston will host the 2016 Decorators’ Show House at the 1854 Nathaniel Allen House in Newton, Massachusetts. This premier design event will be held May 7, 2016 through June 5, 2016 and will feature the creative talents of the Boston area’s finest designers.

Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, the Nathaniel Allen House was the site of the earliest co-educational school in the country and was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Owned by the Newton Cultural Alliance (NCA) since 2012, the property will support small and medium sized performances and cultural events. The proceeds from Show House will support the mission of the JL Boston, and the NCA will be the benefactors of the designers’ wonderful work. For general inquiries or questions, please contact the 2016 JL Boston Show House Chairs, Pamela Berutti and Susan Moussalli, at showhouse@jlboston.org. Tickets are now on sale at https://www.jlboston.org/system/ticket_list/?fundraiser_id=8


Tuesday, April 12, 7:30 pm – From Individuals, to Populations, to Communities, to Extinction: When Does Personality Matter?

The next meeting of the Cambridge Entomological Club will be held on Tuesday April 12 at 07:30 PM in in room 101 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 26 Oxford Street in Cambridge. Dr. Jonathan Pruitt, Assistant Professor at UC/Santa Barbara will expand our horizons outside of Insecta and into Arachnida, as he presents a talk entitled From Individuals, to Populations, to Communities, to Extinction: When Does Personality Matter?.

All are welcome to join us at 5:45 at the West Side Lounge for an informal pre-meeting dinner.

Consistent individual differences in behavior (aka ‘animal personality’) have received considerable attention in recent years because of their apparent ability to explain maladaptive behavior and to predict individual fitness in a variety of circumstances. In this talk Dr. Pruitt will explore how behavioral variation influences higher level ecological processes, including population demographics, species interactions and multilevel selection. He will use social spiders to address these topics.

The meeting is free and open to the public. Parking permits are available.  See www.entclub.org for details.