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Concord Festival of Authors: Mystery Night 2024

Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United States

The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library present CFA Mystery Night 2024, moderated by Kate Flora! This year's event features authors Gary Braver, Joanna Schaffhausen, and James W. Ziskin. Kate Flora's fascination with people's criminal tendencies began in the Maine attorney general's office. Deadbeat dads, child abusers, and employment discrimination aroused her curiosity about […]

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Concord Festival of Authors: An illustrated talk on Chasing Beauty, by Author Natalie Dykstra

Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United States

Join us for an illustrated talk on Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner by Author Natalie Dykstra. Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, […]

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Concord Festival of Authors: “The scrolls of the past burn my fingers”: Reviving Margaret Fuller

Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United States

Please join us for this year's Joel Myerson Annual Lecture: "The scrolls of the past burn my fingers": Reviving Margaret Fuller in the Library of America and Edinburgh Editions, presented by Professors Brigitte Bailey (University of New Hampshire), Leslie Eckel (Suffolk University), and Megan Marshall (Emerson College). Two prize-winning biographies and a recent documentary film […]

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Write On! Time Management for Writers: NaNoWriMo Edition

Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United States

Do you cringe when you hear the word time-management? Or do you visualize having to lock yourself away into a dungy room to get your 50,000 words done within the month? You can breathe a sigh of relief because this time management seminar is for everyday people who have jobs and families in addition to […]

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Write On! Time Management for Writers with Dora Farkas

Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United States

Do you cringe when you hear the word time-management? Or do you visualize having to lock yourself away into a dungy room to get your 50,000 words done within the month? You can breathe a sigh of relief because this time management seminar is for everyday people who have jobs and families in addition to […]

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CFPL: Crowdsourcing the American Revolution

Concord and surrounding communities are very good about celebrating April 19th; however, there was more to the American Revolution than that critical date. The war lasted for eight years. Join historian Beth van Duzer as she speaks about her research, including finding individuals who fought for Concord during the eight years of the war, who […]

Virtual Genealogy Class: On the Trail of Your English Ancestors by Linda MacIver

ZOOM

Join Linda MacIver as we prepare to cross the pond to your ancestral roots with techniques to guide you through census decades and the years of civil registration, to the years back from 1837 into the wonderful world, but more difficult period, of parish registers. Subscription and free databases are essential, as is your knowledge […]

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Plate to Mind: Food and Its Effect on Mood and Brain Chemistry

Concord Main Library Concord, MA, United States

Join Naturopathic Physician Dr. Maura Scanlan for a multidisciplinary presentation that explores food's impact on the brains and minds of our youth and ourselves. Our understanding of how food impacts mental health is growing. Naturopathic physicians have long studied these connections, and now mainstream medicine is joining the dialogue! UCLA has researched the gut-brain link […]

Human Rights Tea

Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United States

Join Concord public historian Richard Smith as he tells the story of Thoreau's civil disobedience and the Reform movements of the 19th Century that made Concord a hotbed for human rights activism. Are Thoreau's words and actions more powerful and influential now than they were in 1849? What is Concord's legacy of protest? And can […]

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Monumental (Re)Make Building Session

Concord Main Library Concord, MA, United States

Concord 250: Monumental (Re)Make Celebrate the 250th birthday of the battles of Concord and Lexington by helping us recreate Daniel Chester French’s iconic statue The Minute Man through collaborative 3D printing! What is this? The Workshop is collaborating with local artist and author Dr. Linda Booth Sweeney to reimagine and reproduce a scale model of Daniel Chester French's iconic statue […]