The Trustees of Forbes Library cordially invite you to the Gertrude P. Smith Trustees Award Ceremony to honor Richard Szlosek for his dedication and volunteer service to Forbes Library on Wednesday, April 2, at 6:30 PM in the Coolidge Museum at the Forbes Library
 
The event will begin with a brief business meeting of the Friends of Forbes Library followed by a presentation by Trustee Award winner, Richard Szlosek, who will read excerpts from his two recently printed anthologies, Essays on Coolidge and Some Thoughts from Rich’s Corner and share tales of Northampton history.
 
Richard is a lifelong Northampton resident and an alum of Amherst College and Western New England Law. He worked in the Szlosek family owned Imperial Bakery before becoming a family law attorney. He began writing after taking a Learning in Retirement course and wrote a column “slice of life” in the Daily Hampshire Gazette and is a frequent contributor to the Gazette and the Conz Street Chronicle. He has volunteered in the Coolidge Museum since 2010 as a tour guide, researcher, writer and board member.
 
We hope you can join us for this special evening.
 
I suppose you could call me a “rememberist” as I often seemed to write nostalgic essays, mostly because I have always been proud of my hometown. ~ Richard Szlosek in the introduction to Some Thoughts From Rich’s Corner