Adults

As Confederate statues are torn down across the country and the nation wrestles with its past, there are heated arguments about the fate of the Monument at Stone Mountain, Georgia, the Confederate Mount Rushmore.

Come practice Italian in a relaxed and fun setting- your library! Prepare for a trip abroad, polish up college Italian or remember the language your parents spoke at home! Come learn and practice with a qualified instructor. Once we determine interest, we will make more decisions on the class structure. Hope you can join us! To register, sign up here!

Join us for a talk and a presentation with writer and leading authority on John Lennon and the Beatles, Jude Southerland Kessler, and with Roxbury audiobook narrator and voice actor, Scott R. McKinley.  The author talk will cover ‘The Beatles in America’, the beginning of which will have its 60th anniversary in February 2024.

Kessler tells the story of The Beatles through John Lennon’s eyes, using dialog and scenes backed by research, interviews, and quoted sources to take the reader back in time to 1963 and 1964, when the longest-lasting popular music created…to date!…spread to the world.

McKinley narrates the multi-media presentation portion of the talk, giving a ‘lively character read’ of The Beatles and those who interacted with them. This portion of the talk also includes images, music and film of the events being described. Mr. McKinley will discuss narrating the presentation with the author, and on recording voice work from a home studio.

About the Presenter: Jude Southerland Kessler is the leading authority on John Lennon, having spent the last 34 years researching and writing the first five books in the anticipated nine-volume John Lennon Series.

About the Presenter: Scott R. McKinley is a Narrator, Voice Actor and Teaching Consultant, and has been a resident of Landing, in Roxbury Township for 28 years, along with his wife, Jeanne and two sons, Richard and Kevin.  He narrates both the audiobook of, and this presentation from, She Loves You by Jude Southerland Kessler.

Thanks to the Roxbury Public Library for sharing this program with us! Register for the Zoom link here!  

Three brilliant African American women at NASA — Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson — serve as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation’s confidence, turned around the Space Race and galvanized the world.

Rated Pg-13, starring Octavia Spencer.

No registration needed.

Wednesday September 27 @ 3:30. Bring in your device and your questions and let’s see if we can sort you out! We would love to get you up and running with our ebooks and e-audiobooks and magazines, but perhaps you have another question? Managing your passwords or photos? Let’s work on it together! No registration needed.

If you cannot make this class it will be offered again, on Wed. October 25 at 3:30.

Please tune in as we chat online with New York Times bestselling author Amor Towles about his incredible body of work.

Rules of Civility, published in 2011, was a New York Times bestseller and was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the year’s best books. Towles’s second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, published in 2016, was on the New York Times bestseller list for two years and was named one of the best books of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, and more. Most recently, in 2021, The Lincoln Highway debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and was a Today Show, “Read with Jenna” book club pick as well as one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2021 amongst many other accolades. His books have sold more than 6 million copies worldwide and have been heralded as irresistible, marvelous, and gorgeously crafted books of beauty.

About the Author: Born and raised in the Boston area, Amor Towles graduated from Yale College and received an MA in English from Stanford University. As well as, Rules of Civility, A Gentleman in Moscow, and The Lincoln Highway, Mr. Towles is also the author of the ebook You Have Arrived at Your Destination, part of Amazon’s Forward collection. His next book, Table for Two, is a collection of short stories to be published in April 2024. Having worked as an investment professional for over twenty years, Mr. Towles now devotes himself full-time to writing in Manhattan, where he lives with his wife and two children.

Learn more and register here

Join us for an informal class in which we all practice our English conversation skills! We practice vocab, introduce ourselves and learn more about where we all come from. Really a nice way to spend an hour. Join us if you can!

Three brilliant African American women at NASA — Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson — serve as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation’s confidence, turned around the Space Race and galvanized the world.

Rated Pg-13, starring Octavia Spencer.

No registration needed.

Learn different types of Paper Art techniques each month with artist Danielle D’Amico of Juxtapose Gallery. 

Turn everyday materials like old maps, books and magazines into works of art. Feel good about creating AND recycling!

These workshops are for everyone, no artistic ability is needed AND all supplies are included!

This month we will be rolling magazine pages to create a figure from George’s Seurat’s famous painting “A Sunday on la Grande Jatte”. 

Ages 13 and up. 

Sign up for this fun art class here!

This fun exercise class returns with our long-time leader, the local line dance guru Linda. This class is so much fun, beginners welcome. Linda dances in the front of the room and the class follows along. And there’s great music to get you all going! Really a lot of fun.

Dancing from 1:30-2:30. Wear comfortable clothes and athletic shoes.

No registration required! but if you let us know you are coming, then we can alert you to cancellations- here is the spot for that!

Join this walking and talking book club for a lap or two around Kantor Park. This month we will be discussing Catherine Hyde Park’s Have You Seen Luis Velez?

We hope you can join us! Newcomers are always welcome!

No registration required.

The evolving meaning of this symbol for a “nation of immigrants,” and how it embodies our values and our conflicts, from abolition and women’s suffrage to the treatment of refugees.