The Concord Free Public Library will be closed Sunday to Monday, January 18-19 in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Students in grades 4 - 8 are invited to sign up for a time slot for a Harry Potter inspired Escape Room at our Fowler Branch Library on Thursday, December 6, 2018 from 2:00 - 6:00 p.m. Advance registration by phone is required and begins on November 1. Call 978-318-3350.
Join Steve Verrill, Joan Verrill and Jennifer Verrill Faddoul for a book signing and discussion of their newly published cookbook A Farm Grows in Concord: 100 Years of Verrill Farm - Verrill Farm Kitchen Favorites with a Dash of History on Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. at the Main Library. The event is free and open to the public.
2018 Holiday Book Sale will take place on November 30, December 1 & 2 in the Main Library Lobby, featuring thousands of like-new books for all ages, including cookbooks, travel books, coffee table volumes, novels, nonfiction, poetry and a room dedicated to children’s books. Sponsored by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library. Open to all. [View Hours]
November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). The goal of NaNoWriMo is for budding novelists to write 50,000 words by November 30. Drop by the Fowler Branch at 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. on November 3 & 10 or the Main Library at 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.on November 17 & 24 to write the next chapter of your book. Open to all.
This year's Concord Festival of Authors will take place from October 1 - 31, a month of readings, workshops and discussions celebrating the written and spoken word. [View Event Schedule]
On Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. three mystery writers will discuss and read from their work in the Main Library Periodical Room. They are Hallie Ephron, Richard Cass, and Sheila Connolly, moderated by Kate Flora. The event is free and open to all.
Curated by Kristin Anderson Emerson from a family archive of her father’s photographic work, the exhibition will be on display in the Art Gallery from September 4 - October 30, 2018.
All are invited to An Afternoon with Award-winning Lyric Poets Gail Mazur and Matt Miller on Sunday, October 28 at 3:00 p.m. in the Main Library’s Periodical Room. This free event kicks off the 27th Season of the Poetry at the Library Series sponsored by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library.
Pulitzer Prize winner Professor John T. Matteson will speak at the Main Library on Friday, October 26, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. about the enduring nature of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. This event is in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the publication of the book. Free and open to all.
The 2018 Ruth Ratner Miller Award for Excellence in American History will be presented to Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize Winner and Professor of History at Harvard Law School and Harvard University on Saturday, October 20 at 7:00 p.m. in the Main Library Rotunda. Tickets are available at the Main Library and the Concord Bookshop. Adults $15, Students $5. Sponsored by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library.
