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October 2023
Your Year of Friendship: Free Discover Girl Scouts Event
Girl Scouts invite kindergarten families in Concord and Carlisle to see for yourselves how your child will have more fun learning, doing, and growing as a Girl Scout on Saturday, October 7th, at 3 PM in the meeting room at Fowler Library. Siblings are welcome. Let us know you're interested at http://gsema.org/eventrsvp2.
Find out more »Family Nature Walk
Join Peter Alden as he guides us on a Family Nature Walk of the Egg Rock and Nashawtuc Hill Circuit! (This event was rescheduled from 9/23 due to the weather). Park on the right along Frenchman's Meadow just after the Sudbury River bridge on Nashawtuc Road. We assemble at the start of Squaw Sachem Trail. First destination is Egg Rock where the rivers join. Next the famous hemlock grove along the Assabet River. We skirt by fields and woodlands on…
Find out more »After-Hours @ the Library
Celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Concord Free Public Library with an evening of food & drink & merriment for patrons 21+. The Main Library will come alive after-hours with a mix of music, art, puppetry, theater, and storytelling. Groove to tunes by local singer/songwriters Sawyer Lawson and Britt Connors and the Lori Zuroff Jazz Trio. Expect the unexpected from the Concord Players and puppet master Harry LaCoste. Get creative with Art for All and appreciate real-life stories told live…
Find out more »Concord Festival of Authors: Keynote Speaker Jennifer De Leon, author of Borderless
Author Jennifer De Leon will kick off the 2023 Concord Festival of Authors with a discussion of her new book Borderless! Jennifer De Leon is the award-winning author of the YA novels, Borderless, featured on the TODAY show, and Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From. She is also the author of White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing. She is an active speaker, presenter, and educator who loves to connect with readers of all ages. Jenn lives outside the…
Find out more »Concord Festival of Authors: Ruth Ratner Miller Memorial Award for Excellence in American History
Miller Memorial address and award presentation to Robert A. Gross A specialist in the social and cultural history of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War, Robert A. Gross focuses particularly on New England. His first book, The Minutemen and Their World received the Bancroft Prize in American History. His latest book, The Transcendentalists and Their World, was chosen by the Wall Street Journal as one of the ten best books of 2021. Book Signing and Reception…
Find out more »Concord Festival of Authors : The Leslie Riedel Memorial Lecture for Young People
Author/Illustrator Chris Van Dusen will be honored with the 11th Leslie Riedel Memorial Award 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 22 at 4 pm. The Riedel Lecture Series was created in memory of Leslie Riedel by her family and friends so that young people could meet some of their favorite authors. Past…
Find out more »Concord Festival of Authors – The Stories of Us: LIVE STORYTELLING at CFPL
Like listening to in-person live storytelling on platforms like The Moth? Curious about the stories you have not yet heard in our community? Join us in the CFPL Goodwin Forum on Wednesday, October 25 for THE STORIES OF US, a collaborative Inclusive Storytelling project that provides a platform to share and interpret unforgettable personal narratives. Radio Host Harry Harding will introduce presenters with AMAZING stories to share, guide compassionate conversation with the audience and invite us to consider the power…
Find out more »Concord Festival of Authors : The CFPL Corporation Presents Elizabeth Graver, author of Kantika
Join the Concord Free Public Library Corporation for an evening with author Elizabeth Graver, in celebration of the library's 150th anniversary. Elizabeth Graver’s fifth novel, Kantika, was inspired by her grandmother, Rebecca née Cohen Baruch Levy, who was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Istanbul, and whose tumultuous and shape-shifting life journey took her to Spain, Cuba and New York. Elizabeth’s fourth novel, The End of the Point, was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award in Fiction and…
Find out more »Concord Festival of Authors: Poetry Panel
Accounting the Migration Experience and America’s Inequities: Oliver de la Paz and Jill McDonough Oliver de la Paz, recipient of multiple prizes and grants, a founding member of Kundiman, and author of six collections, including The Boy in the Labyrinth, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award, reads from The Diaspora Sonnets (Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2023) along with Jill McDonough, recipient of three Pushcart prizes and half-a-dozen fellowships that supported the work of her sixth collection from which she reads,…
Find out more »Concord Festival of Authors: Mystery Night 2023
The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library present CFA Mystery Night 2023, moderated by Kate Flora! This year's event features authors Gledé Browne Kabongo, John Nardizzi, and Sharon Healy Yang. 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 human behavior. The author of twenty-four books spanning genres including crime fiction, true crime, memoir, nonfiction, and short stories, Flora's been a finalist for…
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