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"Breaking the Polarization Trap" Discussions from History to Solutions with speakers Danielle Allen and Robert Gross Limited seating Reservations required, scholarships available
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Goodwin Forum Main Library129 Main Street, Concord, MA, 01742 Please join us 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 […] |
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Join us for a lively and luminous evening with celebrated poet, scholar, and memoirist Dr. Barbara Mossberg, as she brings to life her latest work, Clown Cantos: Everything Is Alive In Its Own Way, Singing. Inspired by Radiotopia’s Everything Is Alive, Dolly Parton, Dante, Dickinson, Einstein, Emerson—and always, Thoreau—Mossberg invites us to hear the hidden music of […] |
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Join us for a program and performance with the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers, a group of musicians and artisans from the tribal communities of Mashpee on Cape Cod and Aquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard on Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Participate in the performance of eastern social songs and dances. Free. Participation is limited. Advanced registration is […]
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Concord Festival of Authors Showcases Outstanding Line-up of Books, Speakers and Stories for All in October 2025 The annual Concord Festival of Authors (CFA), managed by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library, celebrates the written and spoken word this fall with two weeks of literary events throughout town from October 18-November 1. The […]
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The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library present the 2025 Breakfast with the Authors panel, which will take place at Concord's Colonial Inn, 48 Monument Square. The event will be moderated by local author and physician, Dr. Suzanne Koven. CFA Breakfast tickets will be sold locally at the Barrow Bookstore as well as online […] |
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The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library Poetry Series presents Jonathan Aaron and Linda Flaherty Haltmaier, two outstanding poets at the height of their powers. Jonathan Aaron reads from his fourth collection, Just About Anything: New and Selected Poems (Carnegie Mellon University Press 2025). A poem uses words to try to get at what […]
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In partnership with the Concord Festival of Authors, Richard Higgins will discuss his new book, "Thoreau’s God", which recovers a central thread in Thoreau’s life and work that has been ignored or dismissed—his personal religiosity and iconoclastic theological vision. Both are woven through Thoreau’s work as a naturalist and his philosophical thought and ethical commitments. […]
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The Robbins House presents Tara Roberts, author of Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home and Belonging. When Tara Roberts first caught sight of a photograph at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History depicting the scuba and underwater archaeology group Diving With a Purpose, it called out to her. Here were […]
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The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library present The Debut Authors Panel 2025 moderated by Steve Edwards, Writer-In-Residence at CFPL. Debut Author Panelists Nicky Gonzalez is a writer from Hialeah, Florida. Her fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, BOMB, The Kenyon Review, Taco Bell Quarterly, and other publications. She has received support from […]
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The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library present CFA Mystery Night 2025, moderated by Kate Flora! This year's event features authors Nicole Asselin, Richard Cass, and Kim Herdman Shapiro. 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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Join National Book Award long-listed author Marcella Pixley to celebrate the launch of her newest middle-grade book, Neshama, with an author talk, reading, and book signing. "Anna sees ghosts. The spirits of her ancestors call to her from the shadows, and no matter where she is, Anna always answers. Kids in her middle school tease […]
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Join author Karen Kirsten in Conversation with Jennifer S. Brown for a discussion of her new book Irena's Gift. A 2025 National Jewish Book Award Finalist that judges described as “reads like a thriller,” and winner of Zibby Awards for Best Family Drama & Best Story of Overcoming, IRENA’S GIFT explores how hidden histories can […]
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Join us as we conclude the 2025 Concord Festival of Authors with celebrated author Cass Sunstein! Mr. Sunstein is author of hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler, 2008), Simpler: The Future of Government (2013), The Ethics of Influence (2015), #Republic (2017), […]
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