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| Winter Greetings from the Library Director Cultivating a Love for Literature
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 The Youth Department has all of the elements to develop a lifelong love of reading in your child. The Main Library's golden walls, which are adorned with original artwork from award-winning picture book authors and illustrators, create an enchanting space for the early library experiences of our youngest Concordians.
This vibrant center of activity hosts puppet shows, story hours, and concerts where participants can learn the pre-reading skills related to rhythm and rhyme. Bins of board books, rows of colorful picture books, and a vast array of classic and contemporary fiction titles abound. Our knowledgeable and enthusiastic librarians are eager to recommend new titles and to help guide your child's information quest.
Please be sure to check out our forthcoming Did You Know... article in the Concord Journal, which features the childhood favorite books of library staff and other Town leaders. In the meantime, treat yourself and the young people in your life to a visit to our children's room today.
---Kerry Cronin
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Library Winter Book Discussion
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 Tuesday Morning Book Group will discuss The Known World by Edward P. Jones on February 9, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. The Known World weaves together the lives of freed and enslaved blacks, whites, and Indians -- and allows all of us a deeper understanding of the enduring multidimensional world created by the institution of slavery. Please visit our Black History Book Displays in the Main Lobby and Fowler.
February 16: Ship Fever: Stories (Andrea Barrett)
February 23: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Steven Millhauser)
Copies of the books are available at the Library.
For more information, please email us at reference@concordlibrary.org.
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Chinese New Year Events
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 Happy Year of the Tiger! 虎年吉祥!
The Concord-Carlisle Chinese Association and the Concord Free Public Library will present A Fun Afternoon with Chinese Arts, Crafts and Food Tasting in the Main Library on Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 1:30 p.m - 4:30 p.m. Free and open to all ages. [View Details]
Join us for A Chinese Music Night! The Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Association Music Ensemble will return to Concord and perform Chinese traditional music in the Main Library Lobby on Saturday, February 13, 2010, 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. Generously sponsored by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library and the Concord-Carlisle Chinese Association. [View Poster] [View Program]
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Risk-Wise Investor : An Author Talk with Michael Carpenter
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 Our Thursday Evening Author Talk series invites you back for a financial investment lecture on February 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the Main Library's Periodical Room.
In his new book The Risk-Wise Investor : How to Better Understand and Manage Risk, Michael Carpenter introduces his "risk-wise" investment strategy with an examination of everyday risk. His book seeks to prepare the average individual to make smart decisions in bull or bear markets and to minimize personal risk. Carpenter has spent 35 years in the investment world.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library, this event is free and open to the public. |
| Poetry Reading with John Hodgen |
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 The Friends' Poetry Reading series continues with John Hodgen on Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. in the Main Library.
Hodgen, author of Grace, In My Father's House, and Bread Without Sorrow, has won numerous poetry prizes, among them the 2005 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry and the 2008 Chad Walsh Prize in Poetry from Beloit Poetry Review. The reading will be followed by a Q&A session and book signing.
Funded by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library, this event is free and open to the public.
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| Friday Flicks at Fowler |
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| The Friends' popular Friday Flicks at Fowler series continues this month with two below films.
 February 19, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Les Compères (France) 1984
Many adventures result when two men set off on a wild chase through the French countryside after a runaway son each believes is his own. Nominated for Best Writing and Best Actor (Depardieu), this film is a light-hearted treat. Rated PG.
February 26, 2010, 7:00 pm 
One of the few films to come out of Uruguay, this Cannes award-winner's minimalist style highlights a story of transformation. A sock factory owner disrupts a dreary existence by asking an employee to pose as his wife, with unexpected results. Not Rated.
Friday Flicks are free and sponsored by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library.
All films will be shown at Fowler Library.
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"A More Interior Revolution" : An Exhibit |
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 The Massachusetts Historical Society and the Concord Free Public Library will again present a collaborative exhibit this spring.
The Library's Special Collections Curator Leslie Wilson has been working with Megan Marshall, author of The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, to select materials from the Library's Special Collections to be used in the upcoming collaborative exhibit, "A More Interior Revolution" : Elizabeth Peabody, Margaret Fuller, and the Women of the American Renaissance. This exhibit will be mounted by the Massachusetts Historical Society.
In celebration of the bicentennial of Margaret Fuller's birth (1810-1850), the exhibit focuses on her life and work, as well as the contributions of an astounding cohort of female writers, poets, and artists working in the Boston area at this time.
Among the selected materials are a copy of Gunderode translated by Margaret Fuller and published by Elizabeth Peabody, a letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Charles King Newcomb that links Fuller, Peabody, and Caroline Sturgis in plans for an issue of the Dial, and a volume of Wadsworth's poems, a gift from Sophia Peabody to Nathaniel Hawthorne that includes her dedication to him and a sprig of pressed flowers.
Programming for the exhibit will include a gallery talk by Leslie Wilson, "No Worthless Books": Elizabeth Peabody's Foreign Library and Bookstore, 1840-1852 on Friday, April 23, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. and a lecture by Charles Capper on Friday, May 21st, 2010 (time TBA).
Dr. Capper is a professor at Boston University and the author of several recent books on Margaret Fuller. The lecture is a collaboration between the Concord Free Public Library and the First Parish Church and will be held in the Library Lobby. It is free and open to the public.
For more information on gallery talks and related programs, please
visit the Massachusetts Historical Society's website.
The exhibit runs from March 22 to June 30, 2010.
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