Events Tagged with 'concord library'

Join author John Kucich, president of the Thoreau Society, as he talks about his new book, Unsettling Thoreau. John will explore Thoreau’s complex engagement with Native American culture, which reflected his deep respect for Indigenous knowledge alongside his complicity in the settler colonial structures of his time.

Join local actor Stephen Collins for " A Lovely Light," a lecture/performance about the life and poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Born in 1892 in Rockland, Maine, she spent her last years at Steepletop, her farm in Austerlitz, N.Y. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, when she was thirty-one years old.

Stephen Collins grew up in Cambridge and received a BA in Literature from UMass Boston. After twenty-plus years in a sales career, he is back doing what he truly loves—performing and teaching.

Join Randall Warniers for a talk about Twenty Classic Feature Animations and Why They Are Good for You! Short animated films—cartoons—have entertained audiences for over a century. In 1937 Walt Disney elevated the genre when his studio released the first feature-length animation—Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs— to widespread acclaim and box-office success.

Join local author Ruth Madison to celebrate her newest novel, Waiting to Break. This deeply emotional contemporary romance explores themes of community, grief, family expectations, the dignity of choice, and what it means to be truly seen. Ruth will read from her novel, answer audience questions, and sign books. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.  Click on the link for more information about the book.

Joint the Concord Free Public Library Corporation for the annual Joel Myerson Lecture: "Stepping Out of Time: Thoreau, Lopez, and the Question of Transcendentalism Today," presented by Prof. Laura Dassow Walls. "Is this who we are?" It's the question of the day, but generations ago the Transcendentalists asked it as well, as they confronted an America founded on the promise of freedom but mired in the economics of slavery. Their legacy to us is paradoxical: they offer a vision transcending worldly affairs, even as they demand we attend to the burning world.

Wit & Word is a literary event in the dead of New England winter, designed to warm post-holiday hearts sans shopping or screens. Featuring five area writers sharing sharp satire, candid confessions, and true stories that explore mysteries of middle age and realities of modern adulting, the night offers humor with heart, insight, and perhaps a little cringe. You’ll leave laughing, thoughtfully entertained, and hopefully, slightly more fortified to make it to spring. 

Join us on March 5th for a book club discussion of topics from Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane. Learn more about environmental legal personhood with Yenny Vega Cardenas, President of the International Observatory on the Rights of Nature, member of the IUCN Legal Committee, and the United Nations "Harmony with Nature" expert network, and champion for the Rights of Nature. This event is co-sponsored by OARS, Thoreau Alliance (formerly Thoreau Society), and the Concord Free Public Library.

Author Jay Vogt will share stories from his book, A Walking Life: A Memoir in Seventeen Walks, covering local walks, the Camino, and alpine trails. He will explore the European tradition of "walking holidays" and how to bring that spirit home. Then it’s your turn: bring a walking story to join the conversation. Jay will close with The Walking Life Challenge, encouraging you to walk with a friend and trade stories. Register at concordlibrary.org