The Lincoln Literary Society will meet on Friday, June 9 from 10 a.m. to noon. in the Lincoln Public Library’s couch area outside the Tarbell Room. Organizer Daniela Caride will provide tea and cookies as well as free books from the Swap House. The group meets on the second Friday or every month to talk about books they’ve read (recently or not), recite poems, read a passage, or anything that can start a conversation. The structure is very informal and there are no assigned books.
The Lincoln Literary Society will meet on Friday, Aug. 11 from 10 a.m.–2 p.m. in the home of founder Daniela Caride. People may arrive or leave any time during the four-hour window to enjoy wine, food, and lots of books from the transfer station swap table as well as poems, stories and articles. It’s not a regular book club with required readings or deadlines—members talk about books they’ve read (recently or not), recite poems, read a passage or whatever inspires them to start a conversation. Explore www.LiteraryLincoln.org for the latest book recommendations, poems and upcoming events, and send submissions to Caride for publication on the site. For more information, email her at danielacaride@gmail.com. The group meets on the second Friday of each month.
Come to a short reading, book talk and signing with author Erica Ferenick on Thursday, Oct. 12 at 7 p.m. at the Lincoln Public Library. Ferenick is the author of the thriller novel The River at Night, voted a #1 pick by Oprah.com, and an Entertainment Weekly “Must Read.” Copies will be available for purchase and signing.
A great way to pick up gently used books, DVDs and CDs. Sponsored by the Friends of the Lincoln Library to fund library programs.
A great way to pick up gently used books, DVDs and CDs. Sponsored by the Friends of the Lincoln Library to fund library programs.
A great way to pick up gently used books, DVDs and CDs. Sponsored by the Friends of the Lincoln Library to fund library programs.
Join the national conversation on race, culture and identity with two book discussions hosted by the METCO program at the Lincoln School. On Thursday, Jan. 11 at 6 p.m. the book to be discussed is The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin. Participants will discuss The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri on March 15 at 6 p.m. Both discussions will take place in the Brooks gym and will include dinner and fellowship. Please sign up on the Lincoln School METCO website.
A great way to pick up gently used books, DVDs and CDs. Sponsored by the Friends of the Lincoln Library to fund library programs.
The Lincoln Public Library will host a book talk and signing with Howard Foster, author of Miranda’s War: a Novel of the UpZone, on Monday, Feb. 5 at 1 p.m. The book focuses on the legal and social battles of a determined (fictional) member of the Lincoln Conservation Commission. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
A great way to pick up gently used books, DVDs and CDs. Sponsored by the Friends of the Lincoln Library to fund library programs.
Lincoln’s own Ray Anthony Shepard will speak about his book, Now or Never: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery on Thursday, March 8 at 7 p.m. in the Lincoln Public Library. It’s the story of George Stephens and James Henry Gooding, members of the all-black regiment and the war’s first black correspondents. Stephens and Gooding wrote eyewitness reports exposing the dangers and tragedies they experienced on and off the battlefield, as well as the shocking injustices they endured in their own army, providing an intensely personal perspective on the Civil War.
Shepard is the grandson of a slave and was the first African American editor-in-chief of a major educational publishing house. He has taught at Phillips Academy Andover and Brandeis University. Now or Never was picked by the New York Public Library as a “Best Book For Kids & Teens” and included on Kirkus Reviews’ “Best Books (Teens)” list. Copies will be available for purchase and signing.
A great way to pick up gently used books, DVDs and CDs. Sponsored by the Friends of the Lincoln Library to fund library programs.
The First Parish in Lincoln will host a book discussion and Q&A with Rev. Jim Antal, conference minister and president of the Massachusetts Conference, United Church of Christ and author of Climate Church, Climate World: How People of Faith Must Work for Change, on Sunday, March 11 at noon in the church sanctuary (4 Bedford Rd.). First Parish in Lincoln’s Outreach Committee will also share the activities of its new environmental concerns group. In July 2013 Antal wrote and championed the UCC’s resolution to divest from fossil fuel companies. In 2010 he founded NEREM (New England Regional Environmental Ministries), and continues to write the Ecumenical Lenten Carbon Fast.
The Walden Woods Project and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will host a Stewardship Lecture with Dr. Robert M. Thorson, who will discuss a new guidebook to Walden Pond, on Thursday, March 15 at the Walden Woods Project at 44 Baker Farm Rd. in Lincoln. The reception begins at 7 p.m. and the talk begins at 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. The Guide to Walden Pond: An Exploration of the History, Nature, Landscape and Literature of One of America’s Most Iconic Places is the first guidebook to Henry David Thoreau’s most defining place. Thorson is a professor of geology at the University of Connecticut and is the author of several books on Thoreau and his landscape. For more information, click here or email education@walden.org.
A great way to pick up gently used books, DVDs and CDs. Sponsored by the Friends of the Lincoln Library to fund library programs.
A great way to pick up gently used books, DVDs and CDs. Sponsored by the Friends of the Lincoln Library to fund library programs.