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Join our Annual Meeting

Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 6:45 PM at the Coolidge Museum, Forbes Library

Please join us for the Friends of Forbes Annual Meeting on Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 6:45 PM in the Coolidge Museum.

The business meeting will be followed by guest speaker Dylan Gaffney from the Hampshire Room for Local History, Genealogy & Special Collections. He will speak about the digitization of the Judd Manuscript Project and Collection and how it can be used to learn more about the area’s diverse history and people. He will focus on what the collections have revealed about the lives of one Black family living in Northampton in the mid-late 1700s and their ties to other towns and the American Revolution.

We hope you can join us for this special evening.


Artisans Fair

Sunday, October 6, 2024 from 10 am – 3 pm

Located at Forbes Library.

Fundraiser by Friends of Forbes Library, inc. All proceeds go to Forbes Library for books, equipment, and programs.

Artists applying for the 2024 fair can read applications details on our Artisans Fair page.

Apply online

Free Money for Forbes

Are you a Florence Bank customer? You can help the Friends of Forbes win a Customer’s Choice Community Grant from Florence Bank with a simple vote by December 31! Florence Bank is donating $100,000 to local non-profit organizations with their Annual Customers’ Choice Community Grants Program, and you decide who gets the money! Be sure to vote before December 31st to make your vote count. Thank you for your support!


The Friends of Forbes Library is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the interests of the Forbes Library so that its services, activities, and facilities may benefit the public to the greatest extent possible. The Friends provide financial support to programs, projects, events and materials whose costs cannot be met from the library’s annual operating budget.

Friends of Forbes funds its activities through an annual membership drive, a citywide tour of private gardens every June, an artisans fair at library in the fall and other fundraisers. The Friends sponsor children’s and young adult programs, staff computer training, concerts and lecture series, purchase reference materials, support Special Collections preservation, and make annual contributions to the library Book Fund.