Published as part of Northampton’s 350th Anniversary Chapbook Series, Lu Stone’s remarkable history of the house and street she called home is a fascinating portrait of the many interwoven stories…in question, which sits today mere yards from 7-Eleven and Dunkin’ Donuts, around the corner from the generic strip that is present-day King St., stood on the edge between a neighborhood of working class families and the stately homes and towering trees of 19th century King St. The book provides a priceless snapshot of local history, illuminating lives forgotten, reviving cherished memories and in the process helping us to understand the town’s h…
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The Massachusetts Division of Career Services (DCS) offers the Massachusetts Career Information System (MassCIS) free on-line to all Massachusetts residents. MassCIS is designed to provide occupational and educational information to help people make better-informed career and school choices. It includes tools such as assessment tests and resume builder, plus in depth information about careers, salaries, education and training, and job growth outlook.
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The Paris Secret
Fine arts agent Flora Sykes is called from London to Paris on an intriguing assignment: evaluate the contents of an apartment untouched for decades and filled with priceless works of…apartment without noticing the expense, and their solicitors concealed the information for over seventy years. Now that the secret is out, Flora is asked to establish provenance and value for each item in the collection. Her research uncovers more than just the chain of ownership, and draws her into Vermeil family drama. Moving in glamorous social circles and high stakes auctions, Flora negotiates the needs of everyone involved, from her flighty b…
Local History/Local Novelists Reading and Lecture Series
From 2011–2015, Forbes Library presented the Local History/Local Novelists, a reading and lecture series which explored links between local history and contemporary novelists, held the first Wednesday of the month…on said, “This is a particularly varied series. It’s exciting to see poets taking on themes in local history, as well is YA and Middle Grade novelists engaging young people with history through story. As always in this series, we’ll be bringing together the work of writers and thinkers who look at the world in very different ways, to help vary and deepen the experience of reading, thinking and living here now.” Forbes Writer in Residence Susan Sti…
Schedule a Group Tour or Librarian Visit
With advance notice, we can give your group a library tour, or a librarian can make an outreach visit to your local school or organization. Visit from a school group…n your classroom. Group tour of the library Contact: Molly Moss, 587-1017, info@forbeslibrary.org Please let us know the number of people, name of organization or group, and anything you are specifically interested in seeing or learning about. Please give us 2 weeks notice if you can. Visiting librarian presentation to your group/organization Group visit to the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum or Hampshire Room for Local History C…
Gazette Op/Ed: Celebrating the oak trees in front of Forbes Library
September 1, 2017 — by Lilly Lombard https://www.gazettenet.com/Columnist-Lilly-Lombard-celebrates-the-stately-row-of-oak-trees-in-front-of-Forbes-Library-12183381 The iconic row of shade trees lining the front of Forbes Library is grand and stately like the building itself. In 1897, four years after the…iend shaking his head at the sight and saying, “I’ll give those trees five years.” Well, most have lived 10 more years, but their rapid decline is unmistakable. Three dying trees have already been removed, and half of the remaining trees are clearly terminal. They have dropped large limbs over the public sidewalk, lawn and road, creating unsafe conditions. After extensive evaluation, Northampton’s tree warden, Richard Parasiliti, is recommending t…
The Book of Summer
Bess returns to Cliff House, her family summer home for four generations, to extract her mother before it slips off its Nantucket bluff into the north Atlantic, victim to the…ng Bess’s high school love. Told through contemporary narrative interspersed with transcribed entries from The Book of Summer and local news stories, the story of a family and its triumphs, tragedies, and secrets unfolds, drawing the reader into Cliff House from the 1920s through 2013. A sure bet for fans of Elin Hilderbrand, Nantucket, families who brushed shoulders with the Kennedys, and the female side of the story….
Taxes
Forms Available at Forbes Forbes Library generally receives the following tax forms in late January: IRS Forms 1040 and 1040-SR (2023 forms are here!) IRS Instructions for Forms 1040 and…to moderate income. Services start in early February. Access to the different types of taxpayer assistance varies in each locality. Visit the AARP website to find active tax aide sites. Senior Tax Work-Off Program The Senior Citizen Tax Work Off Program is open to senior citizens (60 years of age and older) who own property in and pay real estate taxes to the City of Northampton. Participants must complete 100 hours of service in the program year…
Hamptons + Holyoke Read: Orange is the New Black
February 22, 2017 — For Immediate release. February 22, 2017 – Five communities are coming together during March and April in a new partnership called Hamptons + Holyoke Read. The inspiration for this multi-community…ly 2.2 million people serving time in the United States, which represents a 500% increase over the last 40 years according to the Sentencing Project, a nonprofit research and advocacy group. In Massachusetts alone there are nearly 20,000 people currently serving time. The State Senate will be discussing three important criminal justice related bills this year and nationally prison policy is receiving lots of attention. “The topics raised by this y…
Nilsson Schmilsson
Though RCA records proudly proclaimed, “Harry’s Got a Rock Album” upon the release of 1971’s Nilsson Schmilsson, it’s safe to say Mr. Nilsson had dabbled in rock n’ roll previously….critical acclaim for his work with Tiny Tim, assembled Klaus Voormann, Jim Price, Jim Gordon, Herbie Flowers, Jim Keltner and other notable session musicians for the London Nilsson Schmilsson sessions. The tracks proved to be heavier than what was expected from the Harry of old (see the seven minute “Jump Into the Fire”), but we still have the necessary ingredients for a classic Nilsson recording: his amazing three octave range, sense of humor and…
Forbes Chair Wins Trustee of the Year
October 24, 2022 — Russell Carrier with Lisa Downing, library director; Katy Wight, Vice President of the Forbes Library Board of Trustees; Molly Moss, assistant director Russell Carrier has received the 2022 Library Trustee…ovements he has ushered through during his tenure leaving the historic 129 year old building in the best shape it has been in decades. He was also recognized for his recent initiatives to support equity, diversity, and inclusion at the library including diversifying the library’s permanent art collection to include works by artists identifying as Black, Indigenous and People of Color. His careful stewardship of the library’s endowment and maintain…
Winter’s Bone
Set in the Ozarks in the unforgiving winter. Ree Dolly, a 16-year-old who is the de facto head-of-household, has taken on the responsibility of raising her two younger brothers and caring for her mentally withdrawn mother. A knock on the door informs her that her father has skipped bail, and she will lose the house that has been in her family for generations unless he is found, dead or alive. This book is very atmosopheric, with the winter hangin…
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