This month, the Bacon Free Library's nonfiction book club will discuss Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard by Laura Bates. Author Laura Bates has spent many years working as a volunteer and as an instructor in prisons in Chicago and Indiana. In this book, she chronicles her experience teaching Shakespeare to […]
Cinephilia is an academic word literally meaning “love of cinema,” but it also contains hints of nostalgia and passion for a film art that was undoubtedly the defining media experience of the twentieth century. As such, cinema has a variegated and fascinating history which extends well beyond the Hollywood we are all familiar with. Meant […]
This month, we will read and discuss Ms. Demeanor by Elinor Lipman We meet in hybrid format. Join us live at the library or on Zoom for the discussion. Copies of the book are available at the Bacon Free Library or you can order a copy HERE. Available in Large Print and Spoken CD EBOOK Available on OVERDRIVE Digital audiobook is also […]
Join Tory Stephens of Grist magazine, an independent non-profit media organization focused on the climate crisis, and learn how he created Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors. Imagine is a storytelling initiative that calls for fiction writers to envision the next 180 years of equitable climate progress, imagining intersectional worlds of abundance, adaptation, reform, […]
Libraries across the Commonwealth are celebrating the freedom to read with a Statewide Read-In. Come together on the BFL lawn and read anything you want! All ages – kids and adults – are welcome. Stop by anytime between 3:00 and 6:00pm and enjoy apple cider and doughnuts while you read. This program will take place outdoors, […]
Autumn in Massachusetts is filled with seasonal wonders and mysteries unique to our state. Why do leaves change color and fall off their trees? What animals are rustling through those crunchy, fallen leaves, and what are they doing? Why don’t we hear birds, crickets, and bees anymore? This program, presented by the Bacon Free Library, […]
Be prepared to laugh, dance, sing, and jam your way through 30 minutes of non-stop family fun! This performance is geared toward kids ages 1 – 7, but fun for the whole family. With modern takes on children’s classics and classic original tunes, you’ll be humming and bopping all the way home. If the weather […]
Through Me To You Puppetry and the Bacon Free Library invites you to join Newton and the gang for some story time fun! Newton and his puppet friends take turns reading stories and singing songs with the kids. At the end of the show, the kids are invited to say hi to Newton and even […]
Did you ever want to learn to play the ukulele? The Bacon Free Library is partnering with Bach to Rock (B2R) in Wellesley to bring you this free program. B2R will teach you the basics of playing the ukulele. This program is geared towards ages 14+. Ukuleles will be provided, but feel free to bring […]
**Halloween costumes are welcome and encouraged at this performance!** Be prepared to laugh, dance, sing, and jam your way through 30 minutes of non-stop family fun! This performance is geared toward kids ages 1 – 7, but fun for the whole family. With modern takes on children’s classics and classic original tunes, you’ll be humming […]
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