March 4, 2025 — Printed in the March 4, 2025 Daily Hampshire Gazette Calvin Coolidge’s initial presidential inauguration will forever be unique in American history. He was vice president and vacationing at his father’s home in Vermont. Upon learning of the sudden death of President Harding, he was sworn in there on Aug. 3, 1923, in the wee hours…
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Coolidge Centennial Giving Day
March 4, 2025 — Tuesday March 4 is Centennial Giving Day March 4, 1925 Supreme Court Justice and former President William Howard Taft administer the oath to President Calvin Coolidge. We have chosen this historic date of the 100th anniversary of President Coolidge’s inauguration to kick off a $400,000 fundraising campaign for a new Museum exhibit and program space. …
Freedom Dreaming: Resistance, Resilience, and Repair in the Age of Trump
February 20, 2025 — Join Dr. Ousmane Power-Greene–scholar, author, and chair of the Northampton Reparations Study Commission–to discuss the history of slavery and Jim Crow in Northampton based on his work with the Documenting Black Lives in the Valley Project, the contemporary reparations movement, and the recent discovery of how slavery and slave-derived finance capital funded key institutions in…
Forbes Librarian Dylan Gaffney on Mass Appeal
February 7, 2025 — Forbes Library local history specialist, Dylan Gaffney appeared on WWLP’s Mass Appeal. In the interview he discussed research uncovered in the library’s Hampshire Room for Local History in support of Historic Northampton’s initiative “Slavery and Freedom in Northampton and in the Colonial North”. You can watch the interview on their website–the video will play automatically…
Winter Exquisite
January 10, 2025 — Zine & Diorama Fest on Saturday, February 8, 2025 11-4pm Forbes Library’s resident Zine Club is hosting a Winter-themed/inspired Zine and Diorama Festival. The event will take place from 11-4pm on Saturday, Feb. 8th, in the Reading Room on the main floor of the library. The event will accommodate 20 artist vendors, 12 dioramas, plus…
Volunteer Advisors Wanted for Racial and Social Justice Advisory Group
November 7, 2024 — Forbes Library Racial and Social Justice Advisory Group We are looking for new volunteer advisors! The RSJ Advisory Group focus You, as a member would bring What you can gain as a member Examples of outreach and inclusion efforts Meetings How to participate We invite you to attend a meeting and see if you would…
Annual Appeal
October 8, 2024 — Dear Forbes Library Supporter, What is your first memory of visiting your local library? Do you recall excitement about the books, videos, and audio that illuminated more possibilities in that world, and even opened up the possibilities of whole new worlds? What about programs like story time or summer reading that entertained and challenged? Perhaps…
Coolidge Museum exhibit design RFP
October 8, 2024 — On behalf of The Trustees of Forbes Library, the Board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library & Museum invites exhibition design firms to submit proposals to work with the Head of the Coolidge Museum, Forbes Library Director and Coolidge Museum Exhibits Committee to re-envision and reimagine the Coolidge Museum space. Request for Proposal We encourage…
Bathroom Improvement Project Starting at Forbes
September 21, 2024 — For Immediate Release Press Contact: Lisa Downing, Forbes Library, director@forbeslibrary.org or 413-587-1016 A long-awaited project to improve the ventilation system and accessibility of Forbes Library’s seven bathrooms will begin on Monday, September 23. The work is anticipated to be completed within three months and is being done by Keiter Corporation. While the library is anticipating…
Hosmer Gallery seeks artist applications for 2025-2026
September 14, 2024 — Forbes Library is excited to invite exhibit proposals for the Hosmer Gallery! We’ll be planning exhibits for June 2025 through April 2026. Applications close: November 7, 2024, 6 PM The schedule will be finalized in December. The Hosmer Art Gallery, which opened in 2002, is designed to provide opportunities for local artists to show their…
Keeping Coolidge cool: Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library & Museum launches public fundraising effort
August 27, 2024 — For more information, contact: Julie Bartlett Nelson, coolidge@forbeslibrary.org or 413-587-1014.Make a Gift As the centennial of the presidency of Calvin Coolidge is being marked, the library and museum which bears the name of the 30th U.S. president has launched the first public fundraising campaign in its history. The campaign comes as plans are underway to upgrade the…
Author Andrew Leland in Conversation with Pagan Kennedy – Recording Available
August 17, 2024 — On August 8th Forbes Library welcomed Andrew Leland— writer, audio producer, editor, teacher, and Northampton resident—for a discussion of his book The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight. Andrew was joined by Pagan Kennedy, award-winning author of 11 books, NY Times columnist, teacher, NEA and MIT Fellow, journalist, and magazine contributor,…
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