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Opening of the First South End Library Window Take-over
South End wire sculptor Will Corcoran will present his Window Take-over installation on Thursday, March 31 at 6:00 PM at the South End Library, 685 Tremont Street at the corner of West Newton Street. Local artists, cultural groups and creative entrepreneurs have been invited by the Friends of the South End Library (FOSEL) to feature their work and ideas in the library's prominent, tall windows on Tremont Street, based on a library theme. Corcoran's installation is based on the tales…
Find out more »South End Writes presents author KAREN DAY
KAREN DAY will read from I'll Stay, her first novel for adults. It centers on the friendship of Clare and Lee, two women before and after experiencing a violent event together when they were in their 20s. Sponsored by Friends of South end Library. Location: South End Branch Library, 685 Tremont Street, Boston MA 02118
Find out more »South End Writes presents Alison Burnets at South End Library
Alison Barnet will return to the South End library for her most recent take on what makes the South End tick. The author of multiple perceptive, original and passionate writings about the South End, as both a place and a character, Barnet was one of the founders of the South End News in the 1980s. She will be introduced by her colleague, local history scribe Russ Lopez. Her previous books include Extravaganza King: Robert Barnet and Boston Musical Theater, South End Character and Sitting…
Find out more »South End History Writer Alison Barnet, Drawing a Capacity Crowd Last Week, Will Do a Second Presentation of “Once Upon A Neighborhood” at South End Library
An overflow audience of more than 70 aficionados South End history tried to find seating or standing room in the branch library’s upstairs community space on October 8 for Alison Barnet’s talk about her latest book, Once Upon a Neighborhood: A Timeline and Anecdotal History of the South End of Boston. Some could not even make it out of the stairwell leading to the community room. This was despite the night’s event being the holiday of Yom Kippur, which had…
Find out more »Award-winning Foreign Correspondent Stephen Kinzer Returns to the South End Library with POISONER IN CHIEF: SIDNEY GOTTLIEB AND THE CIA SEARCH FOR MIND CONTROL
Award-winning foreign correspondent Stephen Kinzer, whose investigations and penetrating analyses have shed harrowing light on innumerable clandestine American adventures here and abroad, will return to the South End library on Tuesday, October 22, with the amazing results of his latest investigation of government wrong-doing, Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control. A former New York Times bureau chief in Nicaragua, Berlin and Istanbul, and current world affairs columnist at the Boston Globe, Kinzer tells the…
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.