Events

Author Jabari Asim will be in conversation with Bethany van Delft about his recent novel, Yonder (2022), a spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved…

Author and former East Boston resident, Edward Alessi, will talk about his book, Papa. Papa tells the story of the trials and tribulations of an immigrant family growing up in East Boston during the forties and fifties. 

Local poet Cheryl Clark Vermeulen reads from her latest collection of poetry They Can Take It Out, a story of illness, healing, and turning regeneration into joy. 

Cheryl Clark Vermeulen, author of the chapbooks Dead Eye Spring and…

Come celebrate local author Neema Avashia at the Connolly Branch. Neema will read from her memoir, Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place. Following the Author Talk, there will be a Q&A and light refreshments…

Is the American shopping mall dead? The dystopian husk of an abandoned shopping center has become one of our era’s defining images...

Sit down with Alexandra Lange and Sara Jensen Carr for a conversation on Lange's latest…

Join us for a talk with local author Stephanie Schorow as she masterfully recounts the fire’s history, from the foolish decisions that precipitated it, to the heroics of firefighters who fought it.  For two days in November 1872,…

Local historian Jim Vrabel will demonstrate his Boston History Database, When and Where in Boston, which contains images and descriptions of thousands of events from Boston (including Brighton-Allston) history. 

Jim Vrabel is a…

Historian Anthony Sammarco discusses his new book, a history of Valentine's Day from Lupercalia, an ancient Roman festival celebrated on February 15, to Esther Howland's 19th century cards, and ending with…