Forbes Library is celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2019. The library building was completed in 1893 and then took a full year to open while the newly hired director, Charles…ection in time for its opening in October of 1894. During this anniversary year Forbes Library will be holding special events and presenting exhibits both online and in the gallery about the library’s history. We will also publish histories about prominent people and events connected to Forbes Library, along with great photos and personal stories. The theme for our anniversary year is “Working for the Common Good” and it is inspired by the book, “…
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Home Movie Day at Forbes Library
October 6, 2017 — October 21st, 2017 12-3 PM Do you have old 8mm, Super 8mm or 16mm home movies you haven’t seen in years? Bring them in to the Forbes Library Arts &…r more info contact Dylan at dgaffney@forbeslibrary.org or call us at 413-587-1013. For more info on the national Home Movie Day event, now in its 15th year, visit www.centerforhomemovies.org/hmd/ We’d love to see your treasures!…
Here’s To Us
In Hilderbrand’s latest outing, three wives (two former, one current) and their children gather to mourn and celebrate the life of the man they all loved at the island home…y. Nearly thirty years later, each of them changed by their relationship with him, his wives (high school sweetheart, award-winning actress, former nanny) address their rivalries while their children (travel writer and heroin addict, brilliant young chef, nine-year-old princess) grieve. Deacon’s best friend, manager, and executor has learned that the money is gone and the house is in arrears. No one wants to lose it, and only one of them has the r…
Summer Longing
Brenner returns to Provincetown, setting of The Forever Summer (2017), with new central characters and a familiar supporting cast of residents and locations. Ruth Cooperman rents Shell House from Elise…ders to relate to. Seemingly impossible situations resolve themselves by the end of the summer in the tidiest ways, allowing some to change their lives for the better and others to continue living golden-tinged existences in a charming and artistic community. Fans of Elin Hilderbrand, beaches, summer, and family are sure to enjoy this perfect-for-your-vacation read….
Forbes Library Disability Advisory Board – Minutes for March 3, 2021
Minutes Forbes Library Disability Advisory Board 19 March 2021 2:00 PM – 3:20 PM This meeting was held over Zoom Present Benjamin Kalish, Reference Library Molly Moss, Assistant Director Brian…oom for folks with walkers or wheelchairs. Safer Technology Dorothy Baker told the board about a local group, Northampton for Safe Technology, that is focused on safety with respect to Electromagnetic Fields emitted by electronic devices, and her own concerns about their effects on people with electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Issues discussed include: Concerns about the effect of the library’s recently strengthened Wi-Fi network. The possibility…
Franklin Hampshire Career Center Partners with Forbes Library for Satellite Services
August 21, 2017 — The Franklin Hampshire Career Center and Forbes Library announce a partnership to provide Career Center satellite services at the Library. The Career Center will out-station staff on a weekly basis…e at the Greenfield Career Center. Information about how to take advantage of Career Center services offered at Forbes Library can be found on the Franklin Hampshire Career Center website at: https://www.masshirefhcareers.org or by calling the Career Center at 413-774-4361. Event information will be posted on the Forbes Library website at: https://forbeslibrary.org/events…
Scholarships for Northampton Area Students
This list includes scholarships which target students from Western Massachusetts and Massachusetts generally. High school students in Northampton should also check out the Northampton High School’s scholarship page which includes many small…nt address in Western Massachusetts, and must be enrolled in the sophomore year or higher in a two- or four-year credited college or University. Undergraduates scholarships awarded to students of Polish heritage in their second year or higher of an accredited college, university or diploma nursing school. Students must have a permanent address in Western Massachusetts and have never before received a scholarship from the Polish Junior League of Ma…
Forbes Library Expanding Access to Art with grant from LSTA/MBLC
September 21, 2022 — Progressions 1, oil on canvas by Springfield artist Priya Nadkarni Green. Purchased by Forbes Library in 2022 Forbes Library was recently awarded a federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA)…e of Museum and Library Services and in the Commonwealth by the MBLC. More information about LSTA can be found on the Board’s website at www.mass.gov/mblc. IMLS is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s approximately 123,000 libraries and 35,000 museums. Their mission is to inspire libraries and museums to advance innovation, lifelong learning, and cultural and civic engagement. IMLS’ grant making, policy development, and research…
If you liked The Inn at Lake Devine…
January 13, 2014 — Other Romantic Comedies by Elinor Lipman Into Love and Out Again: Stories Lipman’s short stories are filled with sweet, complex people in unusual relationships: gentle Tim, for instance, falls madly…ed The untimely death of her mother brings Sunny back to small-town King George, New Hampshire, the scene of her unhappy adolescence, where she discovers old family secrets and a possible half-brother she never knew she had. The Pursuit of Alice Thrift Workaholic wallflower Alice Thrift, a socially inept surgical intern at a Boston hospital, is pursued romantically by Ray Russo, a social-climbing, somewhat shady purveyor of carnival fudge, until h…
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,” as the web site says. Each clip is a couple of minutes of one person telling a joke. These are not professional comedians, they are ordinary people from the culture that created the Marx Brothers, the Catskill circuit, and Mel Brooks. Some…
The Angel of Hadley
The Painting The Angel of Hadley, or The Perils of Our Forefathers, by Frederic A. Chapman The “Angel of Hadley,” also known as “The Perils of our Forefathers,” hangs in…n sent as an angel of God to save them, supposedly the real story came out years later as the pastor of Hadley, John Russell, lay on his death bed. It was only then that he admitted to harboring the English regicides, William Goffe and Edward Whalley, both with prices upon their heads for being the ruling judges in the decision to execute King Charles I. Allegedly they were hidden in a secret room in Russell’s home, where they both eventually died…
For Those Who Are Lost
In the chaos of evacuating children from Guernsey to England in 1940, Lily Carre switches places with her sister Helen, undertaking the care of a pair of children–Henry and Catherine…main on Guernsey with their aging parents. Once in England, Lily puts nine-year-old Henry on a train bound for Manchester, where he starts out in a dormitory of evacuees and is eventually sent to a Yorkshire farm for the rest of the war. Lily takes four-year-old Catherine with her to Cornwall, which she arbitrarily chose based on its proximity to the sea and distance from the continent. They find refuge with the assistance of local vicar Peter Ash…
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