Concord Festival of Authors begins!

Concord, MA, United States

CELEBRATE THE CFA’S 30th ANNIVERSARY! Choose from 39 literary events throughout Concord, MA Registration Opens by October 1 The Concord Festival of Authors a town-wide celebration of the written and spoken word managed by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY - MAIN BRANCH, 129 MAIN STREET, CONCORD, MA For […]

A School. Sugar. A Slave Bell. A Presentation by Concord’s African American History Museum

Concord Main Library Concord, MA, United States

Our 544 square foot historic house in Concord jars visitors' experience by presenting the Black history of America's founding. Our success in spreading these messages has resulted in a local previously all-white elite private boys’ school "bequeathing" a 500 pound sugar plantation 'slave bell' to our historic site. Through sharing our recent brochure publications, we […]

Concord Festival of Authors: The Robbins House presents Ray Shepard, author of A Long Time Coming

Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United States

The Robbins House, Concord’s African American History Museum, presents author Ray Anthony Shepard. Shepard discusses A Long Time Coming, his new biography-in-verse of six impactful Black Americans from different eras, including Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama, chronicling their diverse ways of fighting racism. Shepard […]

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