Soccer fever has reached the remote corners of the globe. Follow the adventures of a family of Mongolian nomads, a camel caravan of Tuareg in the Sahara, and a group…Soccer fever has reached the remote corners of the globe. Follow the adventures of a family of Mongolian nomads, a camel caravan of Tuareg in the Sahara, and a group of Indios in the Amazon as they stop at nothing to watch the World Cup on television. I was laughing hysterically through the whole movie. In Kazajo dialect (Mongolia), Tamashek (Niger) and Tupi (Brazil), with optional English subtitles….
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Black & African American Fiction
April 23, 2014 — Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston An American classic, this book is a luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern black woman in the 1930s…Crawford, a Southern black woman in the 1930s whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to seventy years. The Color Purple by Alice Walker “The Color Purple” is foremost the story of Celie, a poor, barely literate Southern black woman who struggles to escape the brutality and degradation of her treatment by men. The tale is told primarily through her own letters, wh…
Library Cards
A library card is required to borrow most library materials and to place holds for those materials. When you get a library card you also get a library account you…can also apply with a parent or legal guardian who has proof of address. Eligibility Most Massachusetts residents, including students, may get a free library card1. If you do not have a residence in Massachusetts you may buy a card for an annual fee of $35. Educators who work in Northampton may also be eligible for a Teacher Card. Library cards from other libraries Forbes Library accepts cards from any CW MARS member library. A Forbes Library card…
Vice President Charles Dawes-Part 2
June 30, 2014 — Coolidge left the selection of his vice presidential candidate to the 1924 convention delegates since that was how he had gotten the nomination in 1920. The Republican convention first nominated…efore being sworn in, he baffled Coolidge by saying he would not attend cabinet meetings. Coolidge was the first vice president to attend these meetings at the invitation of Harding and felt it was important. Coolidge does not mention Dawes in his autobiography, but says this about the vice presidency, “If the Vice-President is a man of discretion and character…he should be in the Cabinet because he might become President and ought to be informed…
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Details on our use of controlled vocabulary, reparative language efforts, descriptive terms, and content warnings in Special Collections Records in our online special collections were migrated from an older system…This also included adding maiden names or married names for greater findability by researchers. Forbes Library is grateful to Abbie Benfield, Smith College class of 2023, for leading this research. In 2021 in anticipation of migrating our database to a new system, Forbes Library staff began a review of subject words, search terms and descriptions for use of racist, sexist, oppressive, offensive language. Forbes Library is committed to continually…
Directors Series Vol. 2: 26 Great Woody Allen Films
December 5, 2014 — <no preview available>
Directors Series Vol. 1: 25 Great Alfred Hitchcock Films
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Directors Series Vol. 3: Classic Ingmar Bergman
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Directors Series Vol. 4: The Amazing Akira Kurosawa
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Cover Story. Volume Two
Our friends at Wax Poetics Magazine have released a book which compiles the craziest album covers one can possibly imagine. After the introductory pages by David Hollander, we say goodbye…books where one can flip through endlessly. Some of the images are truly original, inspired works of art, whereas others are just plain and unbridled insanity. Colorful and psychedelic explosions sit along side grinning, mustachioed men on roller skates and “Music For Your Plants”… Better yet, the artwork for the record “Music To Massage Your Mate By” could leave just about anyone in stitches. Thanks has to go to all of the contributors who collec…
Calvin Coolige At Home in Northampton
June 2, 2009 — Calvin Coolidge At Home in Northampton, a new book by local historian and volunteer Susan Well, is now available. Using original material from the collections at the Calvin Coolidge Presidential…ook by local historian and volunteer Susan Well, is now available. Using original material from the collections at the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum, Well presents the daily life and residences of Calvin Coolidge in Northampton, Massachusetts. Well uses new sources to document the unique and interesting personal life stories of Coolidge’s landlords and neighbors. Most of the Museum’s visitors ask where the former President lived,…
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