For the past twenty years, four Manhattanites have met weekly to discuss career changes, cocktails, classes, and connections. Now in their forties, Lucy is a former model and dilettante writer married to a famous artist; Billy is her childhood friend, a currently unemployed food and wine expert; Lotta is a Swedish art gallery employee and party girl; and Sarah is a socialite aspiring to social media and reality show fame. Over the course of one s…
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Memorial Day Quote
May 22, 2008 — From “Calvin Coolidge Says” May 29, 1931 Decoration Day is our best solemn national holiday which ought to be observed with impressive ceremony. No lapse or diminution should be permitted…ith impressive ceremony. No lapse or diminution should be permitted in the yearly devotion which the people pay to the memory of those who have served in our armed forces. As the ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic who established Memorial Day fade away, there is danger that its observance will be obscured in other more recent events. The principle involved must not be obscured. The day is sacred to the memory of all the dead who wore our unif…
Friends of Forbes Winter Newsletter
December 10, 2014 — The Friends produce four electronic newsletters and two printed newsletters each year. Here’s the winter newsletter, both in a short electronic version and available as a longer more complete print…The Friends produce four electronic newsletters and two printed newsletters each year. Here’s the winter newsletter, both in a short electronic version and available as a longer more complete print edition….
All Hamptons Read Announces Kick-Off of the Big Read in the ‘Hamptons
February 5, 2015 — Northampton, MA – February 5, 2015 – All Hamptons Read will launch its Big Read program in celebration of The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett with a program about American…astime,” said Lisa Downing, Assistant Director at the Forbes Library. This year the committee received a “Big Read” grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support their endeavor with additional support by Florence Bank, Easthampton Savings Bank and the friends groups of each of the participating libraries. The Maltese Falcon was chosen from the list of possible books offered by the NEA for several reasons including the popularity of mys…
Molly Moss is appointed new Assistant Director/Patron Services Librarian
February 17, 2017 — Please welcome our new Assistant Director, Molly Moss! Molly Moss, Assistant Director Head of Reference at Forbes Library since 2010, Molly is excited to take on this new role at…es. Molly has worked as a Reference Librarian since 1997, spending several years as an academic science librarian before making the move to public libraries in 2003. Since starting at Forbes, she has led an LSTA grant for Readers Advisory services, remodeled the Doland Reference Room, and co-founded the Readers Advisory Round Table for Western Massachusetts. Molly has also served as a library trustee, both in Illinois and currently in Shutesbury,…
The poet of Tolstoy Park
In 1925, given only a year to live by his doctor, Henry Stuart leaves his home and grown sons in Idaho to move to the woods on the eastern shore…In 1925, given only a year to live by his doctor, Henry Stuart leaves his home and grown sons in Idaho to move to the woods on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, Alabama, where he builds a round house and lives for more than two decades, while visitors make a pilgrimage to visit him on the property he names after Leo Tolstoy. Very quirky, yet lovable character….
Operating Instructions
As an expecting first time parent, this book was recommended to me and it is just superb. Lamott, in her honest and insightful way, journals the first year of life…As an expecting first time parent, this book was recommended to me and it is just superb. Lamott, in her honest and insightful way, journals the first year of life with her son. She writes about all the fears and frustrations of raising a baby (in her case as a single parent) that most people are afraid to talk about. It is very encouraging and funny….
South Pole Station
Cooper Gosling has passed the rigorous physical and psychological tests required to spend a year in Antarctica in the National Science Foundation’s Artists and Writers program. A talented painter who,…cience Foundation’s Artists and Writers program. A talented painter who, at 30, has not yet realized her potential, Cooper is recovering from a family tragedy and looking for escape. She finds herself integrating with a community that includes scientists, artists, builders, and support staff with wildly different personalities, all seeking or fleeing something. Drawn to Sal, a physicist intent on disproving the big bang theory, and assisting a cli…
Director Interviews
September 29, 2016 — Update October 25, 2016: The Trustees have now finished all 4 director interviews. They will meet on Thursday, Nov. 10, at 3:15, in the Coolidge Museum to select their choice…rview for Forbes Library director post” by Chris Lindahl. Friday, September 30, 2016.] Four candidates have been invited to interview for the position of Forbes Library Director. They are: Lynn Piotrowicz, Director of the Tucker Free Library in Henniker, New Hampshire, who will interview on Oct. 7 Matthew DeLaney, Administrative Director of the Onondaga County Public Library in Syracuse, New York, who will interview on Oct. 13. Adam Novitt, Direct…
The Man Who Lived Underground
In 1940, Richard Wright had a best seller with his first published novel Native Son. Soon after he began work on another novel, The Man Who Lived Underground, of which he…a much abbreviated version was published as a short story in 1942—but this year, in cooperation with Wright’s estate, Library of America has published the novel in its entirety, and it is well worth reading. The novel is published together with an essay by the author, “Memories of My Grandmother”, in which he explains his writing process, inspiration, and intent in the novel. It’s fascinating and completely changed how I perceived the text. There’…
The Tsarina’s Daughter
Alpsten’s follow up to Tsarina (2020) focuses on the life of Elizabeth (Lizenka), daughter of Peter the Great and his second wife Catherine I, from her royal childhood through a…ells Lizenka her future, and Lizenka returns to the Leshy’s words over the years as each prediction comes true. In addition to foretelling Lizenka’s difficulties, the Leshy also tells of greatness, which comes to fruition just as the volume ends. Students of Russian history will enjoy the attention to detail (see the author’s note for details) and fans of historical fiction based on real people will devour this rich repast, and be left eager for t…
If you liked The Glass Castle…
January 13, 2014 — Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller The author describes her childhood in Africa during the Rhodesian civil war of 1971 to 1979, relating her life on…rom a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman A daughter of a schizophrenic mother recounts how she and her sister were held hostage for four years while their mother gave way to psychosis….
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