Current Exhibitions
Main Library Art Gallery
Bill Anderson’s Concord: A Photographic Legacy Exhibition
September 4 – October 30, 2018
The exhibit is curated by Kristin Anderson Emerson from a family archive of her father’s photographic work.
Opening Reception: Friday, September 21, 2018, 6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Remarks by Kristin Anderson Emerson, reception to follow.
R.S.V.P. to ConEvents@minlib.net by September 18.
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Special Collections Display Cases
Mid-Century Modern: Carl Koch’s Conantum
The exhibit looks at Concord’s Conantum community and Carl Koch, the innovative architect who designed it. Every Concordian knows something about the Conantum story, but discovering the foundational ideas that launched it, and understanding the history of mid-twentieth century domestic architecture that inspired it, expand the story.
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In the Main Street Entrance Foyer Exhibit Case
The Spanish Influenza Pandemic in Concord (September-November 1918)
The 1918 influenza pandemic, hastened by the dynamics of a world war, swept around the globe at alarming speed, leaving illness and death in its wake. Concord, in all its peaceful, small town charm, was not spared. Sporadic cases began to appear in late September; in October it had become a full blown health crisis, closing the schools for the entire month, and by mid-November was gone. The exhibit tells the story primarily through contemporaneous newspaper articles.
Dorothy Edna Pickard
Concord Enterprise
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Fowler Branch Meeting Room Exhibit
To be announced
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Fowler Branch Display Case
A History of the Damon Mill
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