The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet begins when Ashby Santoso, the captain of a tunnelling ship, hires a young woman from Mars to be the ships first clerk….contract which requires them to travel the long way around to a distant planet near the galactic core. The galaxy portrayed in The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is full of diverse and intelligent life. It’s a vision of the future much like that portrayed in Star Trek–there’s still plenty of misbehavior and conflict, but overall most folks have found ways to get along. We meet diverse intelligent species, from the lizard-like Aandrisk to the cla…
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Naila Moreira
Naila Moreira, photo by Jeep Wheat Naila Moreira, Writer-In-Residence Emeritus, served from 2015-2018. Naila is an essayist, poet, and science journalist. Her work frequently focuses on themes of science and…for adults. Web page: http://www.nailamoreira.com Twitter: @nailamoreira Facebook: naila.moreira Radio Interview with Writers’ Voice: http://www.writersvoice.net/2013/06/andrew-fisk-naila-moreira/…
The Right to Vote: Past, Present, Future
A series of virtual public presentations and discussions about voting in America Getting the vote: Forbes Library kicks off suffrage series this month with look at 19th Amendment, article by…ur understanding of this moment. Events Video links to past events June 23, 2020: Women’s Suffrage July 15, 2020: The Civil Rights Movement September 21, 2020: Current Barriers to Voting October 27, 2020: The Youth Vote September 30, 2020: Barbara Berenson, author of Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement, addresses the annual meeting of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum On September 1, we screened Borderland, a documentary…
The Right To Vote: Past, Present, Future — Mass Humanities grant
March 5, 2020 — A series of public presentations and discussions about voting in America Events On this 100th anniversary of the year U.S. women gained the right to vote, Forbes Library is presenting…one that warrants thoughtful reflection on how to commemorate it. The year 2020 arrives at another pivotal period in our nation’s electoral history. Some states are considering extending the franchise to felons and younger teens, while others have increased the hurdles to voting. As voting rights, voter fraud, and electoral security are being debated across the country, the humanities offer essential resources for deepening our understanding of t…
Online Day of Giving Established to Support Local Libraries
March 26, 2019 — ONLINE DAY OF GIVING ESTABLISHED TO SUPPORT LOCAL LIBRARIES Three local libraries are raising funds through an inaugural Library Giving Day campaign. This one-day online fundraising event will occur on…n. This one-day online fundraising event will occur on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 and will encourage patrons and Library lovers to make a gift to participating local libraries. This is the time of year that we usually start to hear the buzz about Valley Gives Day, an online giving event organized by the Community Foundation of Western Mass. The CFWM, however, has redirected their energies and is no longer running the one-day donation marathon. Our…
Judd Manuscript Collection
Judd Manuscript Collection Digitized materials from the Judd Manuscript Collection available on archive.org The Judd Manuscript Collection consists of 70 bound volumes of handwritten accounts and transcriptions of documents, letters,…istory Collections. The library has been an active participant in the Internet Archive’s Community Webs program since 2017, and this grant was intended to digitize and provide access to a diverse range of local history archives that contain materials that represent the experiences of immigrant, indigenous, and African American communities throughout the United States. Judd’s extraordinary volumes cover a wide variety of local history subjects, inc…
Northampton’s Forbes Library turns page on first 125 years
February 25, 2019 — Springfield Republican/MassLive, February 24, 2019; reproduced by permission https://www.masslive.com/living/index.ssf/2019/02/northamptons_forbes_library_turns_page_on_first_125_years.html By Cori Urban Special to The Republican The Forbes Library in Northampton is turning the page on its first 125 years…system,” Downing explains. “We think of it as one of the many things that makes Forbes unique.” A complete interior renovation of the library was finished in 2001, accentuating many of the library’s unique features likes the glass mezzanine floors, expansive spaces and Guastavino arches that support the second floor. “Forbes Library is one of our community’s collectively held resources that enriches individual lives as well as the community at la…
Moving Memories Lab Grant Awarded
October 18, 2019 — We have great news! Forbes Library was awarded the Accelerating Promising Practices for Small and Rural Libraries grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to develop the Moving…ork already being done by our teen podcasting workshop and Bay State Hotel oral history projects. Our project, informed by the earlier work of the District of Columbia Public Library and Queens Public Library, will make us the only public library using the memory lab model in New England. In the first year of the grant funding, we will focus on staff training, building technical expertise and institutional capacity for the library and our communit…
Out of the Silent Planet
In this early work of science fiction (Out of the Silent Planet was first published in 1938) C.S. Lewis tells the story of a philology professor, much reminiscent of Lewis’s…in the English countryside, is kidnapped and brought to the mysterious planet of Malacandra aboard a strange space–going vehicle. The professor escapes his captors soon after they land, and he finds himself terrified in an unfamiliar world. His curiosity overcomes his fear, however, when he discovers that many of the native creatures possess the ability to speak and share a common tongue. During his time on Malacandra the professor learns much ab…
Food Assistance
Information on free meals and food subsidies in the Northampton area. Information as listed on organization websites and subject to change. Free meals in Northampton Manna Soup Kitchen Manna Soup…eetinghouse, 121 North Pleasant St. at the corner of Kellogg Ave. https://www.craigsdoors.org/ http://www.uusocietyamherst.org/action/community-breakfast/ Food Pantries and Survival Centers Northampton Survival Center Food Distribution Hours: Monday 2pm-6pm Wednesdays 12pm-3pm Fridays 12pm-3pm Outdoors at the Northampton Survival Center at 265 Prospect St. https://www.northamptonsurvival.org/ Amherst Survival Center Open Monday, Tuesday, Thursda…
Law/Legal Resources for the Northampton Area
Massachusetts Access to Justice The Massachusetts Access to Justice initiative works to provide equal access to the court system for the public, including self-represented litigants, those with limited or no…) 586-8729 Lawyer Referral Service – Massachusetts Bar Association https://www.masslawhelp.com/ (866) 627-7577 Massachusetts Court Service Centers https://www.mass.gov/service-details/learn-about-court-service-centersCourt Service Centers help people navigate the Massachusetts court system. Centers are available to all court users without attorneys and there are no income or immigration status requirements. All of the services in the Court Service…
MassHire Franklin Hampshire Career Center Update
March 18, 2020 — MassHire Franklin Hampshire Career Centers are temporarily closed to the public for in-person services in an effort to protect our customers and staff from potential exposure to Coronavirus (Covid-19). Forbes…re detail will be provided when available. Apply for Unemployment benefits online at: (This is the quickest option at this time) https://www.mass.gov/how-to/apply-for-unemployment-benefits or at the TeleClaim Call Center phone 877-626-6800 Monday-Friday 8:30 am – 4:30pm. Please note the Department of Unemployment Assistance is creating a virtual call center which is expected to be up and running on Monday, March 23 – until then the Call Center is…
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