February Book: The Bookbinder by Pip Williams
The Main Library Book Discussion meets on the first Tuesday of each month. Books chosen are generally literary fiction or narrative nonfiction. Participants take turns leading the discussion. This discussion currently meets online via Zoom. Register here: https://bit.ly/fpl-adultbookdiscussion
Guest speaker: Anna Tucker, Executive Director, Framingham History Center
Revisit Colonel Henry Knox’s route, transporting nearly 60 tons of captured artillery from Fort Ticonderoga to the Continental Army outside Boston. This journey passed directly through Framingham, where Knox paused for reasons that historians debate. Understand how local landscapes like Framingham shaped this larger campaign. Explore the human and environmental challenges of the journey, the significance of the “Noble Train of Artillery” in the final push to force the British from Boston, and the ways this story has been remembered over generations.
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Guest speaker: Dr. Joseph M. Adelman, Professor of History, Framingham State University
Since the ratification of the First Amendment in 1791, the Constitution has promised to safeguard “freedom of the press.” The meaning of the phrase has changed significantly as news media has grown and expanded from the weekly newspapers of the 18th century to the international corporations that own television and internet today. Explore the origins of the “free press” in the American Revolution and how those principles can protect the press today.
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The Main Library Book Discussion meets on the first Tuesday of each month. Books chosen are generally literary fiction or narrative nonfiction. Participants take turns leading the discussion. This discussion currently meets online via Zoom. Register here: https://bit.ly/fpl-adultbookdiscussion.
March 3: The Wedding People by Alison Espach
"A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew."
April 7: Unfinished Love Story by Doris Kearns Goodwin
"An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon in the last years of his life."
Guest speaker: Dr. Jon Huibregtse, Professor Emeritus, History, Framingham State University
In January 1919, a molasses storage tank in Boston North End collapsed, flooding the neighborhood with approximately 2 million gallons of molasses. The 25-foot high tidal wave of molasses destroyed buildings, almost knocked over the elevated railroad track, and killed 21 people. Learn the reasons for the tank’s collapse and its aftermath which led to greater regulation of construction and a huge (for the period) civil judgment against the tank’s owner.
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