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Newton Free Library presents: The Breaking of Baseball’s Color Barrier with Ted Reinstein
Newton Free Library presents: The Breaking of Baseball’s Color Barrier with Ted Reinstein
This program is presented in partnership with Tewksbury Public Library, the program sponsor. Please register here. Join author and longtime Chronicle reporter Ted Reinstein for a presentation on his latest book, Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball's Color Barrier. The book tells the story of the little-known heroes who fought segregation in baseball, from communist newspaper reporters…
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New Art Center presents: Teen Zine – GR 9-12
New Art Center presents: Teen Zine – GR 9-12
In this 6-week course students will print and produce their own zine – a small circulation of self-published work using a combination of both text and imagery. Students will develop their own short stories and/or poems and use these pieces to create visual imagery to support their writing. By the end the of the course …
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Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: Book Talk – “For the Love of Cod” with Eric Dregni
Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: Book Talk – “For the Love of Cod” with Eric Dregni
A journey to find Norway’s supposed bliss makes for a comic travelogue that asks, seriously, what makes Norwegians so damn happy—and does it translate? Norway is usually near or at the top of the World Happiness Report. But is it really one of the happiest countries on Earth? Eric Dregni had his doubts. Years ago…
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Newton Free Library presents: You Came Through The Ruins – Tagore’s Songs and Poems of Life and Renewal
Newton Free Library presents: You Came Through The Ruins – Tagore’s Songs and Poems of Life and Renewal
Join Maitreyee Chakraborty and friends for a special concert that will focus on the works of the Bengali poet, Rabindranath Tagore. He was a writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Maitreyee is trained in the classical Indian vocal tradtion. When the world crumbles around us, death…