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Summer Exhibit in Plymouth Notch
June 4, 2008 — Check out the Summer Exhibit at Plymouth Notch, Vermont!CCPLM has loaned a Northampton ballot box, 3 badges and 1 ticket from the 1924 convention and some reproduction photographs to this…time. This exhibition examines the “Keep Cool-idge” phenomenon and the competition’s efforts to unseat this popular, but enigmatic Yankee politician. May 24 – October 19. Located at the Coolidge Visitor Center Museum, President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site, Plymouth Notch, VT. The exhibition features objects from the site’s permanent collection, as well as rare campaign memorabilia and images from private and public collections including t…
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…
Virtual Hosmer Gallery
Welcome to the Virtual Hosmer Gallery Community Art Exhibition! From April 2020 through March 2024, we invited the community to participate in an online art exhibit. The original inspiration was…a Barrett screw the timing, analog collage by Carson McGrath website slightly bitter, analog collage by Carson McGrath website ode to western mass, analog collage by Carson McGrath website Bryant Park, Photography by Denise M. Riggs website Boca Abstract, Photography by Denise M. Riggs website Portland Museum, Photography by Denise M. Riggs website Texture Painting, acrylic on canvas by Carl Bowlby website Texture Painting No. 2, acrylic on canvas…
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…y are raising funds for a future new library project. They have been actively and creatively fundraising for a new Shutesbury Library since 2012 when efforts to secure matching funds for a Library Construction Grant were unsuccessful. Through multiple efforts including Valley Gives, Spring Spruce-Ups and support from Town Meeting, the Library now has more than $365,000 saved for a future project, about a third of the amount needed to match the pre…
Community Events Seek to Facilitate Conversations about End-of-Life Care, Planning
This program ran in 2016. It is archived here for those who are interested Hampshire & Franklin Counties – More than 25 libraries throughout the region and medical professionals from…Jackson. This program is free. Registration is required; space is limited. www.cooley-dickinson.org/classes or 888-554-4234. Fostering Discussions among Patients, their Doctors, and other Medical Professionals Jeffrey Zesiger, MD, director of Palliative Care at Cooley Dickinson Hospital and an event organizer, says the goal of the initiative is to help community members prepare for the later stages of life, as well as better understand the aging p…
Special Collections Policy
Forbes Library Special Collections Collection Development Policy Forbes Library is the public library for Northampton, Massachusetts. Its Mission Statement applies to all collections and services. Special Collections are also…the original collecting mission; two- and three-dimensional works by locally and nationally known artists. Most works are on display in the building for public viewing. Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States The Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library & Museum at Forbes Library is the largest source of primary material on Calvin and Grace Coolidge. The collection consists of manuscripts, speeches, letters, videos, recordings, microfilm…
Vox Tox
On March 21, 2020, Sandi Toksvig posted a video on a new YouTube, Vox Tox. It opens with the calming sound of a slow piano rag and a view of…ed to find the positive in this enforced separation from the world and the bit I’m finding is how lovely to have the time to dip in and out of some ancient volume I haven’t looked at for ages. I struggled a great deal with loneliness when I was a child and it was always books which kept me company. Vox Tox is “a daily amble through the library of Sandi Toksvig”. It’s also a wonderful amble through the mind of Sandi Toksvig, whose interests are wid…
2021-03-19 Agenda
Agenda Forbes Library Disability Advisory Board 19 March 2021 2:00 PM Delivery Homebound Delivery Service Pandemic Delivery Service Questions / Discussion Online programs Benefits Barriers Questions / Discussion Curbcuts, Sidewalks,…Library Disability Advisory Board 19 March 2021 2:00 PM Delivery Homebound Delivery Service Pandemic Delivery Service Questions / Discussion Online programs Benefits Barriers Questions / Discussion Curbcuts, Sidewalks, Transportation Planned changes on library grounds Problems near the library Picture Main Street project Questions / Discussion Outdoor Furniture New purchases this summer: tables and chairs Feedback to improve accessibility is welco…
Old Jews Telling Jokes
This project started as a website, still going strong at www.oldjewstellingjokes.com. A couple of guys and their dads started rounding up all their “aunts and uncles, wise-cracking attorneys and periodontists,”…stories have been around a long time, but nearly all of them land between amusing and hilarious on the laugh-o-meter. You’ll find ironic, raunchy, and self-deprecating bits as well as some marvelous timing and delivery. The narrator I could do without. Still, it beats therapy….
Exhibit History
2002–present: Hosmer Gallery 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Virtual Exhibits 2021 2022 2023 Up to 2001…992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Hosmer Gallery exhibit by Karl Knapp…
All Hamptons Read 2018
This program ran in 2018. It is archived here for those who are interested Four communities are coming together during October and November in a partnership called All Hamptons Read….ach community. Ebooks and eaudio are also available through Overdrive. Exhibits Concurrent with All Hamptons Read, there will be a series of exhibits in the community focused on the themes of the Underground Railroad and enslaved peoples. From Nov. 2nd-30th, the traveling exhibit Lewis Hayden and the Underground Railroad is coming to Northampton at Forbes Library. An opening reception and talk about Lewis Hayden will be held Monday November 5th fr…
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