The Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s production of “The Tempest” was set to be performed on the Common this summer, but instead became one of the cultural casualties of the pandemic. Nonetheless, the CSC has forged ahead and will present a script-in-hand virtual performance on Thursday,...
The Library of Congress began collecting motion pictures in 1893, amassing an archive that now numbers nearly 9,000. From early work by Thomas Edison and D. W. Griffth to newsreels for Black Americans in the 1940s, from interviews with famous authors and musicians to...
Our new reservation system makes getting your holds even easier. In the email telling you your hold has come in, you’ll see at the bottom, beneath our address: To schedule pickup click here. Follow the link, log in with your library card barcode number...
One of the pleasures that library users are missing most acutely right now is that of wandering through the collection, panning for library gold. Until we can offer that experience again, we have Wowbrary, a weekly email that lists all the hot new items...
We’ll just let their home page say it all: “We’re a collective of independent, high-powered, story-driven podcasts. Our center of gravity is in Boston, the hub of the audio solar system, and we count members in spoke locations around the nation. We believe that...
Jon Batiste, Rihannon Giddens, Natalia Lafourcade, Lara Downes, and lots of other great musicians you may never have heard of have squeezed behind the desk of NPR music critic Bob Boilen for a set of some of the best music you’ll ever hear. The...
Even though the Library’s been closed since March 15, our two 3D printers have been very busy printing parts for face shields and N95 masks for our first responders. This effort is a collaboration between Town management and the Library Trustees. Special thanks to...
