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In this issue: Concord Festival of Authors - Breakfast with the Authors - Leslie Riedel Award Lecture - Chasing Beauty Book Talk - Mystery Night - Joel Myerson Lecture Series - Adult Programs - Gallery Talk - Makerspace Programs - Virtual Films at Fowler - Teen Programs - Children's Programs
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Concord Festival of Authors | |
Breakfast with the Authors at the Colonial Inn | |
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Concord Festival of Authors Presents Breakfast with the Authors
Saturday, October 26, 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Concord's Colonial Inn, 48 Monument Square, Concord, MA
The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library present the 2024 Breakfast with the Authors panel, which will take place at Concord's Colonial Inn. The event will be moderated by local author and physician, Dr. Suzanne Koven. Featured authors include Steve Almond (Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow), Crystal King (In the Garden of Monsters) and Margot Livesey (The Road from Belhaven).
Tickets are $30 in advance or $35 at the door, as available and are sold locally at the Barrow Bookstore as well as online. This event includes a full buffet breakfast at Concord’s Colonial Inn.
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Leslie Riedel Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature: Lincoln Peirce | |
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The 2024 Leslie Riedel Award for Excellence in Children's Literature Presents Lincoln Peirce
Sunday, October 27, 3:00 p.m.
Goodwin Forum, Main Library
The 2024 Leslie Riedel Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature will honor and present cartoonist and animator Lincoln Peirce. The lecture series was created in memory of Leslie Riedel by her family and friends so that young people could meet some of their favorite authors.
Past speakers of the series include children's authors/illustrators David Macaulay, Chris Van Allsburg, Jerry Pinkney, Lois Lowry, Tomie dePaola, Grace Lin, Katherine Paterson, Kate DiCamillo, Robert Sabuda, Rajani LaRocca and Chris Van Dusen.
The Concord Free Public Library Corporation generously sponsors the Leslie Riedel Award series.
This event is part of the Concord Festival of Authors.
[Register for the Leslie Riedel Award event]
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Concord Festival of Authors Presents Mystery Night | |
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Mystery Night
Monday, October 28, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Goodwin Forum, Main Library
The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library present the Concord Festival of Authors 2024 Mystery Night, moderated by our Concord's renowned Mystery writer Kate Flora.
This year's event features authors Gary Braver, Joanna Schaffhausen and James W. Ziskin.
Gary Braver, pen name of Gary Goshgarian, is the internationally best-selling and award-winning author of 10 critically acclaimed mysteries and medical thrillers including Elixir, Gray Matter, Choose Me (co-written with Tess Gerritsen), and Flashback, the first thriller to have won a prestigious Massachusetts Book Award.
Joanna Schaffhausen wields a mean scalpel, skills she developed in her years studying neuroscience. She has a doctorate in psychology, which reflects her long-standing interest in the brain―how it develops and the many ways it can go wrong.
James W. Ziskin is the author of the Ellie Stone Mysteries, which have won the Anthony, Barry, and two Macavity awards.
[Register for Mystery Night]
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Concord Festival of Authors: Chasing Beauty | |
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Chasing Beauty: An Illustrated Author Talk
Tuesday, October 29, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Goodwin Forum, Main Library
Join us for an illustrated author talk Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner by Natalie Dykstra.
From author's website - Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture. An extraordinary achievement of storytelling and scholarship, Chasing Beauty illuminates the fascinating ways the museum and its holdings can be seen as a kind of memoir, dazzling and haunting, created with objects instead of words and displayed per Isabella’s wishes in the exact placements she initially curated.
From award-winning author Natalie Dykstra, Chasing Beauty is the story of the complex and singular woman behind one of the most fascinating museums in the nation and the world—a tale of beauty and loss, grit and American self-invention.
[Register for Chasing Beauty Author Talk]
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The 2024 Joel Myerson Annual Lecture Series | |
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The 2024 Joel Myerson Annual Lecture: "The scrolls of the past burn my fingers": Reviving Margaret Fuller in the Library of America and Edinburgh Editions: A Hybrid Event
Wednesday, October 30, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Goodwin Forum, Main Library & Live Streaming
[Register for In-Person]
[Register for Live Stream]
This year's lecture will be presented by Professors Brigitte Bailey (University of New Hampshire), Leslie Eckel (Suffolk University) and Megan Marshall (Emerson College).
Two prize-winning biographies and a recent documentary film have revived Margaret Fuller as an inspiring foremother in feminism and early American activism. Given Fuller's leadership in the Transcendentalist movement and the range of her achievements in translation, editorial work, journalism, and foreign correspondence, scholars like Brigitte Bailey, Leslie Eckel, Megan Marshall, and their colleagues have committed themselves to creating fresh and comprehensive editions of her work for the Library of America and Edinburgh University Press. Join us to learn more about their goals, challenges and epiphanies in these new editions as we celebrate Fuller's vision of women's potential in our twenty-first-century world.
An exhibition accompanying the talk will be on view before and after the presentation. A reception will follow the event in the Rotunda. The Concord Free Public Library Corporation generously sponsors the Myerson Lecture series.
This event is part of the Concord Festival of Authors.
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Virtual Group Meditation with Be Well Be Here
Thursday, October 31, 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
Zoom
Join Lara Wilson for a 30-minute morning meditation practice with the Concord Free Public Library and start your day with a moment of ease. Discover mindful tools that center the body, settle the mind and open the door to wellbeing. [Register for Zoom Link]
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Write On! Time Management for Writers: NaNoWriMo Edition
Wednesday, November 6, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Goodwin Forum, Main Library
Join us this November for our Write On! writing seminar series. This time management seminar with Dora Farkas is for everyday people who have jobs and families in addition to their desire to write. If you have a desire to share your story with the world, this seminar is for you, even if you have not published before or do not have much time to write. You will walk away with a personalized plan that will help you create a regular writing routine that works with your busy life. Please bring a notebook and something to write with. Sponsored by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library. [Register for Write On!]
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Highlights from Special Collections: Gallery Talk and New Exhibition | |
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Gallery Talk - Alicia Keyes: New Pathways to Beauty Exhibition
Saturday, November 9, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Munroe Gallery, Main Library
Join Special Collections for a gallery talk on November 9 at 2:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.
The William Munroe Special Collections is delighted to introduce its newest exhibition, "Alicia Keyes: New Pathways to Beauty." The exhibition features Concord artist Alicia Keyes' paintings, sketches from Special Collections and pieces on loan from the Emerson and Keyes families and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association. The exhibition is on display in the Munroe Gallery from October 26 to December 30, 2024.
Known by her family as Lily or Lillie, Alicia Mulliken Keyes (1855-1924) was the daughter of John Shepard and Martha Lawrence Prescott Keyes. Alicia grew up with her siblings, Annie, Florence, and Prescott, in the "Bullet Hole House" on Monument Street in Concord. She spent her life surrounded by art, creating and teaching it to others. Her passion for art would take her on a multi-year tour of Europe and then to a career teaching art and art history at Wellesley and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, as well as a role in the founding of the Concord Art Association. Primarily teaching women, she gave them a glimpse of art from her unique perspective. As Daniel Chester French described her upon her death, "That removes one of the most characteristic of all Concord's people, and I don't like to think of the town without her."
A highlight of the exhibition is a group of her sketchbooks, most of which have never been on view. Alicia traveled to Europe in 1884 and spent most of the next two years abroad, studying and sketching in England, Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, and Italy. While the original sketchbooks are on display in the exhibition cases, numerous images from the sketchbooks have been enlarged and printed to highlight her work.
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Makerspace Workshop Programs | |
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Learn to Crochet
Saturday, October 26, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
The Workshop, Main Library
Learn the absolute fundamentals of crocheting in this beginner-friendly class with local textile artist Rosa Croughwell. Zero experience required. Recommended for makers ages 13 to 113.
This workshop will also be offered on November 7 - please register for only one session. If you are wait-listed, you are welcome to join multiple session waitlists in case of cancellations. Additionally, both wait-listed patrons and walk-ins are welcome to visit the Library at the listed date and time for this event. Should any registered attendees cancel less than 24 hours in advance or fail to arrive 10 minutes past the listed start time, spots may be granted to those waiting in the order they arrive.
For more Workshop programs, visit here.
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The Bookworms (Grades 4-8)
Wednesday, November 6, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Meeting Room, Fowler Library
Do you love to read? Would you like to meet new friends and discuss interesting books? Come join The Bookworms. Each month, we will discuss two books - one fiction and one graphic novel. Each month, at least one of our selected books will be from the Massachusetts Children's Book Awards 2024-25 list. For our November meeting, we will discuss Stowaway by John David Anderson and Brooms by Jasmine Walls. Pick up print copies of both books at Fowler or find them on Libby or Hoopla. We will meet on the first Wednesday of each month at 2:00 p.m. Chips and lemonade will be provided. [Register for The Bookworms]
For more Teen programs, visit here.
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Main Library Children's Programs | |
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Fall Storytime Schedule
All Storytimes are drop-in unless otherwise noted.
Musical Monday, Mondays, 10:30 a.m.
Crafty Tuesday, Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m.
Todler Storytime, Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. & Baby Snugglebugs Storytime, Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m.
Storytime at Main, Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.
Alphabet Storytime, Fridays, 10:30 a.m.
Yoga & Movement Storytime, Saturdays, 10:30 a.m.
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Musical Monday: Alan Goodrich
Monday, October 28, 10:30 - 11:15 a.m.
Goodwin Forum, Main Library
Alan is a guitarist and singer-songwriter/solo performer who presents live music concerts "for kids of all ages" including classic and current children's songs and original songs. This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library. No registration required.
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Pumpkin Decorating Contest (All Ages)
Monday, October 28, 4:15 - 5:15 p.m.
Children's Activity Room, Main Library
Drop in for a festive evening decorating pumpkins - We will provide the pumpkins and decorations, you provide the creativity. Then, enter your pumpkin in our Pumpkin Decorating Contest (beginning at 5:00 p.m.) for a chance to win special prizes. Space is limited, please register only those who plan to decorate pumpkins (caregivers welcome). [Register for Pumpkin Decorating Contest]
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Make-it! Club
Wednesday, October 30, 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
The Workshop, Main Library
Join us every Wednesday afternoon for an awesome craft, art project, or engineering puzzle! Recommended for kids ages 5-10 and their caregivers. If your child is ages 5-9, please be prepared to stay with your child for the duration of the event. No registration required.
For more Children's programs at the Main Library, visit here.
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Fowler Branch Children's Programs | |
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Read to a Dog at Fowler
Monday, October 28, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Meeting Room, Fowler Branch
Join Samantha, a young golden retriever, for a 10-15 minute reading session. No advance registration required. This program is designed for developing readers of all ages.
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Family Diwali Gala at Fowler (All Ages)
Saturday, November 2, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Meeting Room, Fowler Branch
Let's celebrate Diwali - Join us to make rangolis, get henna designs, craft garlands and learn about the Indian Festival of Lights. Feel free to bring in snacks to share. This event is generously sponsored by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library. [Register for Family Diwali Gala]
For more Children's programs at the Fowler Branch, visit here.
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