Cartoonist Lincoln Peirce will be honored with the 12th annual Leslie Riedel Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature for his impressive body of literary work for young people. The in person program will take place in the Forum of the Concord Free Public Library, 129 Main Street, Concord MA on Sunday, October 27 at 3 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]