Category: Author

Weds, Sept 25, 7:30 pm – The demonization, internment, and deportation of celebrated Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Dr. Karl Muck, finally told, and placed in the context of World War I anti-German sentiment in the United States. One of the cherished narratives of American...

Thursday, Sept 19, 7:30pm – Author Jane Healey will read from her novel, The Beantown Girls! Books will be available for purchase. In this historically accurate and poignant account, set in 1944 against the backdrop of World War II, a young woman is forced...

Monday, Sept 16, 7pm – Barbara Berenson, author of Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement: Revolutionary Reformers, tells the story of the national suffrage movement and gives this state’s suffragists the attention they deserve. Long before the Civil War, Lucy Stone and other abolitionists...

Watch a video of this program. Weds, April 3, 7pm – Celebrate Wayland Author Juliette Fay’s latest novel in the Rotunda! Copies of the novel will be available for sale. It’s July 1921, “flickers” are all the rage, and Irene Van Beck has just declared...

Monday, Jan 14, 7:30pm – What do modern multiverse theories and spiritualist séances have in common? Not much, it would seem. One is an elaborate scientific theory developed by the world’s most talented physicists. The other is a spiritual practice widely thought of as...

Monday, Dec 10, 7:30pm – This is the first guidebook to Henry David Thoreau’s most defining place, visited by half a million people each year and widely known as the fountainhead of America’s environmental consciousness. Using this guide, both armchair readers and trail-walkers alike...

Tues, Oct 23, 7:30pm – Bestselling author Jenna Blum will give a talk on her latest novel The Lost Family, an immersive, emotionally riveting family saga about the reverberations of World War II across generations: In 1965 Manhattan, patrons flock to Masha’s to savor its...