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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
The BFL, in collaboration with the Tewksbury Public Library, presents this virtual conversation with authors and animal lovers Melanie Kaplan and E.B. Bartels about their new books. In Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research, author Melanie Kaplan investigates the breeding and use of beagles for biomedical research, drug […]
Be prepared to laugh, dance, sing, and jam your way through 30 minutes of non-stop family fun at the Bacon Free Library! This performance is geared toward kids ages 1 - 7, but fun for the whole family. With modern takes on children's classics and classic original tunes, you'll be humming and bopping all the […]
Create a blackout poem by circling some words on a page, and crossing out the rest. Or, cut and collage to make a ransom-note style poem, or create a concrete poem by crafting your words in the shape of an object. Drop-in to do this craft in the library or call ahead for curbside pickup […]
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