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Complete Local History/Local Novelists Reading and Lecture Series Calendar (with past events)
2014-2015 | 2013-2014 | 2012-2013 | 2011-2012 | 2010-2011 logo by Julieta Vasquez Mansilla 2014 – 2015 October 1 Strange Stories of Science! Bugs! Scandal! Fiction! Faith Deering, entomologist, Historic Deerfield Peter Kobel, author, The Strange Case of…erty, editors. Various readers. December 3 Celebration of Local Novelists M.P. Barker, novelist, Mending Horses Suzanne Strempek Shea, novelist, Make a Wish But Not for Money D. Dina Friedman, novelist, Escaping into the Night Karen Shepard, novelist, The Celestials January 7 Engaging Young People with History: An Evening with YA and Middle Grade Novelists Jeannine Atkins, novelist, Becoming Little Women: Louisa May at Fruitlands Burleigh Muten, n…
Keep Me Posted
Stay-at-home mom Cassie and her expat sister Sid make a drunken Christmas pact to reconnect by corresponding only through handwritten mail for a year. Cassie scans their letters for posterity,…heir letters for posterity, saving them to a private blog. Cassie has three-year-old twins, a tiny West Village apartment, and a caring husband. She feels vaguely dissatisfied and uncertain how to cope. Sid has a teenage son, a toddler, and a distant husband. She’s easygoing but has to confront her husband’s infidelity. Their correspondence is intimate and open and safe for them both. When a technical glitch makes the blog public, the sisters beco…
Welcoming Week
August 18, 2021 — Forbes Library is partnering with the Center for New Americans and the International Language Institute (ILI) to recognize “Welcoming Week”, September 10-19, 2021 in Northampton. Welcoming Week is an initiative…. The Center welcomes and serves immigrants, refugees, migrants, and asylum-seekers in Western Massachusetts. They offer free classes in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), career preparation assistance, support services and immigration legal services. ILI’s mission is to promote intercultural understanding and diverse communities by providing high-quality language instruction and teacher training including English language instruction…
Celebrate New Art Works in Forbes Library’s Collection, February 4
January 18, 2023 — Reception Saturday, February 4, 2-3:30 PM The public is invited to a reception spotlighting the new art works by local and regional BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) artists which…rmanent collection. Committee members reached out to the arts community in western Mass., interviewed experts, viewed a wide range of images, and identified 10 pieces to purchase. They include paintings, drawings, photographs, and digital art by Ryan Murray, Mike Curato, Grace Lin, Priya N. Green, Alex Callender, Anthony Melting Tallow, and Julius Lester. We will also be unveiling an original and vibrant watercolor of Sojourner Truth by the great…
Sounds like Titanic
After a childhood spent driving over the mountains of West Virginia to take violin lessons, Jessica is now officially a music student at Columbia University and on track to achieve…hile pretending to play the violin in front of concert halls full of people. This quick-moving memoir is a story of coming to terms with one’s own inescapable mediocrity after a lifetime of being called “gifted.” It’s also a funny and brutal look into the experience of someone who kind of, but not really, got to live out a dream—as well as a peek at the strange and mercurial composer whose fame was primarily based on the fact that his music shamel…
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Burn Notice
This action-packed TV series stars Jeffrey Donovan as agent Michael Westen who receives a burn notice or termination notice. He wakes up in Miami with no money or identification, trapping…es otherwise. While trying to figure out who is responsible for his burn notice, Michael helps people in trouble, using his unique skills gained as a spy. Co-stars include Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead) and Sharon Gless (Cagney & Lacey)….
All Hamptons Read 2024
Five communities are coming together during March and April in a partnership called All Hamptons Read. The inspiration for this multi-community initiative is the book Master Slave Husband Wife: An…th author Ilyon Woo and clothing historian Lynne Zacek Bassett. Author’s Discussion Guide Copies of Master Slave Husband Wife are available to borrow from the participating libraries in each community. Ebooks and E-audio are also available through Libby. Contact Sign up for the mailing list (select “Hamptons Read”) For more information, contact info@forbeslibrary.org Events…
Colonial India
April 23, 2014 — Dark Road to Darjeeling by Deanna Raybourn When Lady Julia Grey and Nicholas Brisbane travel to India to investigate the death of Jane Cavendish’s husband, they uncover secrets and scandals, illicit…e but dangerous relationship with an Indian doctor. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster In a scathing indictment of British imperialism, Forster’s once controversial novel portrays two Englishwomen who experience misunderstanding and cultural conflict after they travel to India. The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru At the age of fifteen, Pran Nath Razdan is thrown out onto the streets when the truth of his parentage is revealed, forcing him to re-inve…
Hosmer Gallery
In Memory of Jean Elizabeth Hosmer (1954-1999) Upcoming Exhibits 2024-25 | Exhibit History | Information for Artists | Información para Artistas | Hours | Mailing List Virtual Hosmer Gallery Community…digital files) to the Special Collections and University Archives of the W.E.B Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts, and to the Forbes Library. Ana Pepaj baking bread, Selce, Albania Bud Warnock, Northampton State Hospital Traveler, Niger River, Mali Marije Paldoci, Gajtan, Albania Online: Community Art Exhibit Visit the online Community Art Exhibit at Virtual Hosmer Gallery During the emergency building closure in 2020, The Hosmer…
In the Dark Places of Wisdom
Kingsley aims primarily to situate properly the spiritual teaching and practice of Parmenides and his successors in ancient Creek wisdom traditions. This fifth-century BCE philosopher is commonly described as the…of dense notes at the end), it is paced like a detective thriller; yet the central aim is to awaken the longing for self-transcendence….
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