All Concord libraries will be closed Monday, September 7 for Labor Day.
Are your closets packed with costumes of autumns past? Ours too! This year, skip the cost and the environmental footprint - swap, craft, and glam your get-up at our first ever Sustainable Boo!Tique Tuesday, October 6 from 5-7 PM with Alex Makes Art.
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Are your closets packed with costumes of autumns past? Ours too! This year, skip the cost and the environmental footprint - swap, craft, and glam your get-up at our first ever Sustainable Boo!Tique Tuesday, October 6 from 5-7 PM with Alex Makes Art.
Please join us on Tuesday, September 15, 6:00—7:00 PM, for a talk by Bettina A. Norton on her new book, Pastellist during the American Revolution: Benjamin Blyth.
The Concord Free Public Library is joining communities across the state to read Nothing More of this Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity by Joseph Lee. Pick up a copy at the Fowler Library, discuss it during September book clubs, attend partner events, and join us for a watch party Q&A with the author.
This exhibition, located on the first floor of the Main Library, July 30 - September 10, 2026, features a rare selection of works by Edward Waldo Emerson, son of Ralph Waldo Emerson, including many pieces on loan from private collections on view here for the first time. Also included are several paintings, sketchbooks, and his palette from the Concord Free Public Library’s William Munroe Special Collections, which also holds Edward’s papers.
This summer, visit the Main Library to explore A Celebration of the Declaration: An Exhibition of Rare 1776 Documents, on view through July 26.
This July, the Munroe Gallery at the Main Library welcomes Summer Memories, a solo exhibition by Massachusetts artist Lucinda Hamilton. On view from July 6 through July 30, the exhibition celebrates the landscapes, places, and moments that shape our most cherished memories. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, July 11, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
The Library's Writer-in-Residence (WIR) Program is accepting applications. Apply and learn more here. Deadline is July 15. Residency period is January–June 2027. The WIR Program is intended to continue the Concord’s literary heritage, offering new ways to celebrate diverse voices and share stories through literary arts programming.
A life-size bronze sculpture of 19th-century literary figure and women's rights advocate Margaret Fuller has been donated to the Concord Free Public Library Corporation and will be unveiled to the public on May 23, 2026. The sculpture, created in 1985 by acclaimed American artist Penelope Jencks, reflects her distinguished career in public art, which includes works such as the Eleanor Roosevelt Monument at Riverside Park in New York City, a statue of the historian Samuel Eliot Morison on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, and a statue of Robert Frost at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts.
On Saturday May 16 from 10 AM - 3 PM, Spring into West Concord! Enjoy sidewalk sales, plant sales, art exhibits, crafts, music, and more! Get ready by finding the lovely lanterns that are lighting up the neighborhood -- the Garden DeLIGHTS Treasure Hunt starts May 1!
