Cinephilia is an academic word literally meaning “love of cinema,” but it also contains hints of nostalgia and passion for a film art that was undoubtedly the defining media experience of the twentieth century. As such, cinema has a variegated and fascinating history which extends well beyond the Hollywood we are all familiar with. Meant […]
We are happy to welcome author, journalist, and professor Dick Lehr back to the BFL to talk about his latest book, White Hot Hate. This book details the gripping true story of an averted domestic terrorist attack against a Kansas farming town’s immigrant Somali community. Crucial to this story is the FBI informant who exposed […]
Join us for a virtual Zoom discussion of The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey. Copies available at the library, or borrow as an ebook on Libby or digital audiobook on Hoopla. Please email cstirling@minlib.net to register and receive the Zoom link.
Fantastical Folktales of Flowers with Oracle award winning storyteller Diane Edgecomb and Celtic harper Margot Chamberlain will be HELD IN THE LEBOWITZ ROOM OF THE MORSE INSTITUTE LIBRARY From the dramatic to the sublime to the wildly humorous, world stories of flowers and their origins are deeply entertaining. Retold in a dramatic storytelling by award-winning storyteller and […]
Join us for a virtual discussion of: The Island of sea women / by Lisa See. Copies of the book will be available at the Bacon Free Library. Call 508-653-6730 to arrange pick up. Order your own copy HERE Available on Overdrive HERE For details on how to attend this virtual meeting via Zoom, please […]
The class is open to adults who want to learn more about floral design. The class will include, ideas on basic floral designs, sustainable mechanics, and floral conditioning. We will provide a vase, and you will be able to select and share flowers from the flower table for greens/ filler flowers/focal flowers/and branches. You will […]
For our last meeting before the summer we will meet in person on Saturday June 17 at the Bacon free library. Join us for a discussion of The End of Nature (2006 edition) by Bill McKibben Copies of the book will be available at the Bacon Free Library. Order your own copy HERE Join environmental […]
How to Steal a Masterpiece Join us for another great talk with art historian and educator, Mallory Mortillaro. Enter the underworld of stolen art as we examine the little known stories of some of history’s greatest art heists. This lecture will review some of the most significant art theft in the last century and a […]
This month, we will discuss West with the Night by Beryl Markham. Although born in England, Markham & her father moved to Africa, where she would spend most of the rest of her life as an adventurer, a racehorse trainer, and an aviatrix. She became the first person to fly nonstop from Europe […]
Cinephilia is an academic word literally meaning “love of cinema,” but it also contains hints of nostalgia and passion for a film art that was undoubtedly the defining media experience of the twentieth century. As such, cinema has a variegated and fascinating history which extends well beyond the Hollywood we are all familiar with. Meant […]
This month, we will read and discuss The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill. We meet in hybrid format. Join us live at the library or on Zoom for the discussion. Copies of the book are available at the library. Order your own copy HERE. Available in Large Print and Spoken CD EBOOK Available on OVERDRIVE Digital […]
Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with her new book The House of Lincoln, a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who arrives in Lincoln's home of Springfield […]
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