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Messages from the Library Director
Concord Reads: Making a Difference
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The banner is up! Our annual On the Same Page: Concord Reads program has officially begun. During the month of March, the Library will lead the entire Concord community in exploring the theme of Making a Difference.
This year's theme is inspired by the book Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen. The book is an account of one man's campaign to build girls' schools in the most dangerous and remote areas in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The Library will host a variety of events that include book discussions, films, a care fair, story times, guest lectures, a tea party and many craft workshops. All events are free and open to everyone. Click here for a complete program listing.
Our librarians have also prepared reading lists for adults, teens and children.
This program is a collaboration with the Friends of the Concord Free Pubic Library, Concord Public Schools and local organizations - together, we are making a difference.
---- Kerry Cronin
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Sunday Poetry Reading
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 The Poetry Reading series will feature June Beisch and Ellen Steinbaum on Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. in the Main Library.
A poet and journalist, Ellen Steinbaum writes a literacy column for the Boston Globe and is the author of Afterwords: Poems and Container Gardening: Poems .
Concord's own June Beisch is the winner of the 2004 Cape Cod Literary Press Poetry Prize for Fatherless Woman and a former journalist and reviewer for WGBH.
Funded by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library, this event is free and open to the public.
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Rule and Invention: Author Talk with John Tittmann and Jacob Albert
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 This promises to be another fascinating author visit! Our Thursday Evening Author Talk series will present architects John Tittmann and Jacob Albert, principals of Albert, Righter and Tittmann (ART) on March 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Main Library's Periodical Room.
ART's works are featured in a recently published book New Classic American Houses : the Architecture of Albert, Righter & Tittmann by Dan Cooper.
Named one of the best architecture firms of 2008 by Boston Magazine, ART Architects are known for creating finely crafted houses that pay homage to classic American house styles yet are adapted with skill and mastery to suit contemporary American life.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library, this lecture is free and open to the public. Book signing will follow. |
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The Friday Flicks at Fowler series will bring another two international films to your doorsteps.
 March 12, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Together (China-South Korea) 2002
A devoted father's efforts to support his son's musical talent uproot the pair from their small village and take them to Beijing, where surprising lessons await. Outstanding musical score. Rate PG.
 March 26, 2010 7:00 p.m.
After Life (Japan) 1998
This compelling film is based on responses of 500 people, who described the most memorable moment of their lives. Fiction and footage from the interviews were blended to create this story of a way-station, where the newly deceased have three days to chose one memory to take with them into eternity. That memory is re-created for them on film. Beautifully done. 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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Book Discussions Continue
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 The Library's adult book discussions will continue monthly at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesdays in the Main Library's Trustees Room. Forthcoming discussion books are as follows: - April 27, 2010 - Blindness
(by Jose Saramago)
Copies of both books will be available at the Main Library's Circulation Desk. All are welcome to attend. Preregistration is not required. |
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Anderson Market Story Is Online |
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 The Anderson Market Building page has been added to the Library's Concord Historic Buildings web pages.
The 29 web pages of the Anderson Market Story explore the history of one of Concord's oldest structures, located at 42-44 Main Street. Built by the Concord Mill Dam Company, ca. 1828, it has been used as a hatter's shop, a watch repair business, a lawyer's office, and over most of its history as a grocery store. Today it is Main Street's Café, operated by David and Karen Anderson, the fourth generation of the family to run a business in the gracious brick building, one that has been home to Mill Dam businesses for nearly two hundred years.
In the months to come, look for the sixth and final Concord Historic Buildings page: the Thoreau-Alcott House.
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