Join us on Mondays and Tuesdays for stories and songs! Note: The historic nature of our building limits accessibility. This program is also offered in an accessible location at the Morse Institute Library (click here for dates, times, and more information).
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Stories, bounces, and songs for babies 0-24 months and their grownups! The historic nature of our building limits accessibility. This program is also offered in an accessible location at the Morse Institute Library (click here for dates, times, and more information).
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
The library will be closed today in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Author Sharon Udasin will discuss her new book, Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America. Learn how PFAS -- a set of toxic chemicals most people have never heard of -- poisoned the entire country. Based on original, shoe-leather reporting in four highly contaminated towns and damning documents from the polluters’ own files, Poisoning […]
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