Parenting Adolescents During the Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities Thursday, October 22, 2020 at 7:30PM. Free and open to all! Parents of adolescents always have a lot on their minds. As the pandemic continues, please join Dr. Rachel Kramer for a webinar to discuss helpful strategies and reassuring ideas for parenting adolescents during this challenging time. […]
Registration for CCYH Mosquito program now open: The CCYH Mosquito program is considered our "Hockey 101" program and is geared for Girls and Boys who were born between 1/1/2012 and 12/31/2015. Please visit www.ccyh.org for more details and to register your child. Please note that due to COVID-19 protocols for social distancing, CCYH will not be having the Learn to Skate program this year. If your player […]
In a time of national crisis – political, medical, financial, environmental and moral – storytelling is more important than ever. Novelist Jennifer Haigh talks about what literature has to teach us, and why it is urgently necessary in these troubled times. Jennifer Haigh is a novelist and short story writer. Her sixth book, the novel […]
The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library present Breakfast with the Authors, moderated by Dr. Suzanne Koven. The CFA 2020 Breakfast with the Authors online features celebrated literary authors Adrienne Brodeur (Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover and Me), Caroline Leavitt (With or Without You), and Marjan Kamali (The Stationery Shop). Grab your favorite […]
New Leaf Shop, 74 Commonwealth Avenue in West Concord Fun-filled, open-air fair featuring local crafters and artists. Halloween hats Holiday Crafts Fall Decor Jewelry Maine-made preserves Free admission Candy Corn contest Raffle
The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library present Young Adult Writers Susan Kaplan Carlton, Jennifer De Leon, and Marcella Pixley! Susan Kaplan Carlton teaches writing at Boston University. Her latest novel, In the Neighborhood of True, has been named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, […]
The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library present Children’s Authors Rajani LaRocca and Susan Tan. Rajani LaRocca was born in Bangalore, India and immigrated to the U.S. as a baby. She spent most of her childhood in Louisville, Kentucky. She is the author of middle grade novels and picture books that reflect her experiences […]
The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library present Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond. Join panelists Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar, three award-winning poets and editors as they discuss their seminal W.W. Norton anthology of Asian and Middle Eastern poetry as well as their […]
Join us for this special Halloween event! Take a tour through historic Sleepy Hollow Cemetery with a Concord Museum guide. Learn about the lives and deaths of past Concordians through stories passed down through the generations. This is an in-person event. Tickets include same-day admission to the Concord Museum.
It doesn't get more New England than this! Join us for a fascinating October walking tour through two of Concord's historic cemeteries as we explore death, dying, and burial customs in early America. Don your favorite sweater, gather your friends and family, and get ready to walk your way through a picturesque autumn evening and […]
