Lectures to Celebrate New Library Opening, Spring, 2006
Anita Diamant, author of the bestselling Biblical epic, The Red Tent, will read from her latest novel, The Last Days of Dogtown, in the first of a series of celebrated authors’ readings at the newly renovated and expanded Needham Free Public Library:
- Sunday, March 19, 2:00 p.m.: Anita Diamant, reading from The Last Days of Dogtown. Cosponspored by the Friends and the Library Trustees.
- Sunday, April 23, 2:00 p.m.: Barbara Delinsky, bestselling author and lifelong New Englander, to present “An Author’s Roots: From One Small Library to the World”. Cosponspored by the Friends and the Library Trustees.
- Sunday, May 7, 2:00 p.m.: Timothy Kenslea, historian and Needham resident, reading from The Sedgwicks in Love: Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage in the Early Republic. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
- Thursday, June 1, 7:30 p.m.: Peter Vanderwarker, photographer, author of The Big Dig:Reshaping and American City and Boston Globe columnist, to present “Civic Architecture and Cultural Aspirations”. Cosponspored by the Friends and the Library Trustees.
Each program is free and open to the public, and seating is first-come, first-served. All will be held in the Community Room of the new library, which is scheduled to reopen to the public March 17 at 1139 Highland Avenue, Needham, MA. Refreshments will be served.
“We are delighted to present Anita Diamant as the inaugural speaker at the new library. This series, featuring local authors with national reputations, celebrates our regional literary talent, and we invite the community to the library’s beautiful new Community Room for these exciting events,” said Catherine Marenghi, president of Friends of the Needham Public Library.
For more information about the authors’ lectures, please contact Catherine Marenghi, Friends of the Needham Public Library, (***) ***-****, ***@****.***. Contact information for the Neeham Free Public Library is here.
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