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Virtual Cookbook Club

We invite all home chefs and budding culinarians to join us for a virtual cookbook club meeting! This month’s featured book is Ripe Figs: Recipes and Stories from Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus by Yasmin Kahn. Here’s how virtual cookbook club works: Each of us will prepare a recipe from this month’s cookbook. Copies are available…

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Online Poetry Series: The Refuge of Witnessing featuring Angela Dribben

Angie Dribben’s debut collection, Everygirl, a finalist for the 2020 Dogfish Head Prize, is out with Main Street Rag in May 2021. She is Contributing Review Editor at Cider Press Review and Director of Internal Affairs at Southern Collective Experience. Her poetry, essays, mixed media, and reviews can be found or are forthcoming in Cave Wall, EcoTheo, Deep South, San Pedro River…

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Virtual Book Club

Join us for our monthly book club to discuss this month’s selection Klara and The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. The book is available at the library.  Stop by or call the Library at 413.298.5501 to place a hold on a copy. The book club generally meets on the second Thursday of the month.  We will…

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Speaker Series featuring Linda Greenhouse – Postponed

This program has been postponed until further notice.  Please check back for updates. Joins us as we welcome Linda Greenhouse, author of  "Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court".  Her new book will be published in November 2021.…

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Online Poetry Series: The Refuge of Witnessing featuring Kathryn Petrucelli

Kathryn Petruccelli is a bi-coastal performer and writer with an M.A. in teaching English language learners. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in New Ohio Review, Rattle, River Teeth’s Beautiful Things, december, SWWIM, Literary Mama, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and others. Kathryn is a past winner of San Francisco’s Litquake essay contest and a finalist for the 2019 Omnidawn Broadside…

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Speaker Series Featuring Scholar Eugene Fidell – Postponed

This program has been postponed until further notice.  Please check back for updates. Join us for an engaging presentation on current issues facing the military justice system with Eugene Fidell. Mr. Fidell will discuss legislative proposals concerning prosecution decisions and other timely issues such as: Has the military justice system become too complicated? Is its…

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Online Poetry Series: The Refuge of Witnessing featuring Tres Abuelas y Una Mamá.

For two years, once a week, three abuelas and one mamá conversed around a table, sipping hibiscus tea, sharing stories, and writing, writing, writing. The tres abuelas are Maureen Seaton, Queen of Collaboration, Holly Iglesias, Mistress of Prose Poems, and Carolina Hospital, Guru of Juxtaposition; the mamá is Nicole Hospital-Medina, Alchemist of Vibes. The poems…

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Virtual Cookbook Club

We invite all home chefs and budding culinarians to join us for a virtual cookbook club meeting! This month’s featured book is Curry & Kimchi: Flavor Secrets for Creating 70 Asian-Inspired Recipes at Home by Unmi Abkin & Roger Taylor Here’s how virtual cookbook club works: Each of us will prepare a recipe from this month’s…

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Virtual Book Club

Join us for our monthly book club to discuss this month’s selection The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green. The book is available at the library.  Stop by or call the Library at 413.298.5501 to place a hold on a copy. The book club generally meets on the second Thursday of the month.  We will be…

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Author & Artist Betsy Dovydenas in Conversation- Postponed

POSTPONED.  Please check back for updated information. Join us as we welcome author and artist Betsy Dovydenas to discuss her book If You Want To Know How I Got Brainwashed.   Betsy Dovydenas is an artist who painted and wrote her story about joining a bogus church run by a bogus pastor.  In more than 200…

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Online Poetry Series: The Refuge of Witnessing featuring Owen Lewis

  Owen Lewis, author of three collections of poetry, most recently Field Light (Distinguished Favorite, 2020 NYCBigBookAward), and two chapbooks including best man (recipient of the 2016 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize, New England Poetry Club.) Prizes include Finalist, 2017 Pablo Neruda Award, and first prize, the 2016 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry. His poetry has…

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