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  • Environmental Book Club

    Bacon Free Library 58 Eliot Street, Natick, MA, United States
    Adult Events

    Join us for a Zoom discussion of: Arctic dreams: imagination and desire in a northern landscape by Barry Lopez Copies of the book will be available at the Bacon Free Library.  Order your own copy HERE Join environmental enthusiast, Arthur Ensroth, in discussing current, historical and future environmental issues through books! We’re finding ways to […]

  • Art to Go – Crafting with Books – Paper Teacup

    Bacon Free Library 58 Eliot Street, Natick, MA, United States
    Adult Events

    Now you can enjoy Pop up Art School’s projects in your home! Sign up to take home a kit and watch the how-to video any time within a 30-day period in the comfort and convenience of your home. Kits are limited, so please don't sign up unless you will watch the Pop up Art School's […]

  • VIRTUAL: How Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of WWII

    Bacon Free Library 58 Eliot Street, Natick, MA, United States
    Adult Events

      Author Elyse Graham will discuss her new book, Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II, the true untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war to defeat the Nazis. At the start of WWII, […]

  • Cinéphile Mondays

    Adult Events

    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 […]

  • Virtual: Creating a Modern Homestead with Author Victoria Pruett

    Bacon Free Library 58 Eliot Street, Natick, MA, United States
    Adult Events

      We'll be chatting with modern day homesteader, blogger, and author Victoria Pruett about her book Creating a Modern Homestead: Traditional Skills for Real, Everyday Life.  Victoria will walk us through many aspects of homesteading, such as cooking from scratch, food preservation, backyard chickens, gardening, natural pest control, and more.  You'll gain some understanding of […]

  • Virtual: Armchair Tour of the Faroe Islands with Joanne Pearson

    Bacon Free Library 58 Eliot Street, Natick, MA, United States
    Adult Events

    Landscape photographer Joanne Pearson will be our guide through this armchair tour of the Faroe Islands. The rugged and remote Faroe Islands--an archipelago of 18 islands located in the North Atlantic between Iceland, Norway, and the Hebrides--have a long and rich history. Settled by Irish monks around 600 AD, colonized by Vikings in the ninth […]

  • VIRTUAL: Agents of Change: the Women Who Transformed the CIA

    Bacon Free Library 58 Eliot Street, Natick, MA, United States
    Adult Events

      Author Christina Hillsberg will discuss her new bestselling book Agents of Change: the Women Who Transformed the CIA. Explore the pioneering women who changed the insulated world of international espionage — from the barrier-crashing challenges of the 1960s to the present-day reckoning — told through the eyes of a former intelligence operative herself.  This program […]

  • Walnut Hill School for the Arts

    Bacon Free Library 58 Eliot Street, Natick, MA, United States
    All Ages

    Walnut Hill School for the Arts is an independent boarding and day high school offering an immersive and intensive educational experience designed for student artists in Grades 9–12, with a postgraduate gap year also available. In the Visual Art Department, students acquire foundational skills and hone their creative impulses through personal practice, faculty guidance, and […]

  • Nonfiction Book Club

    Bacon Free Library 58 Eliot Street, Natick, MA, United States
    Adult Events

        This month, we will discuss The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers.  From daveeggers.net: Monk of Mokha is the true story of a young Yemeni-American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war. Copies of this book […]