Bill Crosby designed and created a “Bookometer,” to measure community participation in the fundraising effort for the Library project. Watch it grow with every surge in community support, and look for your favorite, local authors, whose books will be prominently featured. By Valerie Thayer /
Middlesex Savings Bank announced that it will make a $250,000 gift to the Concord Free Public Library Corporation’s “Connecting Our Community” campaign, a $10 million plan to expand and renovate the library. A significant portion of the gift from Middlesex will be directed toward the project’s
Two coinectors, creative contraptions designed and built by campers in the Concord Recreation Department’s summer program, were unveiled this week in both branches of the Concord Free Public Library. Under the guidance of assistant librarian Cary Stough, campers were invited to help
The Historic Districts Commission, The Planning Board and the Zoning Board of Appeals have approved an upcoming library renovation and expansion project for the Concord Free Public Library, 129 Main St. Detailed construction plans will be finalized over the next few months. “I am thrilled with
Thank you for supporting the library at Town Meeting On behalf of the trustees, Library Committee and Friends of the Library, I wish to thank our fellow Concordians for coming to Town Meeting and supporting Articles 7 and 22, which included library project funding. During Town Meeting, I heard
Dear Editor, I have lived in Concord for over 20 years – and in that time, have raised 3 kids (now teenagers) and spent countless hours on fields, playgrounds, in museums, parks, schools, theaters and other public spaces in Concord – but perhaps the most important space that we have used is
Concord Free Public Library is a great resource I’m a person who sticks with what works. For example, there are so many great restaurants in Concord, there’s little point in leaving town. It’s also true for clothes, hardware, hair care and many other things. May I submit that the Concord Free
Support the library When you work at our library, you are surrounded by marbled, male beauty: the magisterial Emerson, the quirky Thoreau and the Byronic Hawthorne, but William Monroe, the 19th century local boy who made good, the guy who put the “free” in Concord Free Public Library, quickly
The Concord Free Public Library, one of the town’s iconic treasures, is on the cusp of a transformational expansion and renovation. Connecting Our Community is a $10 million project designed to create new, vibrant and collaborative spaces while preserving the Library’s cherished historic rooms
Support the Concord Free Public Library project Over the past 20 years, few Concord organizations have ignited as much excitement or stimulated as great an intellectual charge as the Concord Free Public Library. As a trustee for 25 years, I enjoyed a front-row seat from which to engage with its
