Past Thursday Night Lectures October 11^th 6:30-8:00 pm A story for all ages, Sinbad of the Coast Guard – the greatest Sea Dog to have ever walked the Deck of a Ship by Michael Walling who served as an officer in the U.S. Coast Guard. Michael Walling is author of Bloodstained Sea, http://www.mikewalling.com/. 6:30 Refreshments, Meet & Greet 7-8:00 Lecture, Q & A November 8^th 6:30 - 8:00 pm The Bedford and Billerica railroad, America’s first narrow gauge. The impact the arrival of the railroad had on small New England towns by Arthur Ellis. 6:30 Refreshments, Meet & Greet 7-8:00 Lecture, Q & A December 6^th,^,2007 18^th Century Medicine and Surgery by Henry Marcoux 6:30 Refreshments, Meet & Greet 7-8:00 Lecture, Q & A January 17^th, 2008 Wine Tasting presented by Mac Kinnon's Package Store 6:30 Refreshments, Meet & Greet 7-8:00 Lecture, Q & A February 7^th, 2008 Pre-Valentine’s day special; Love and Lust in Art and Literature by Leah Sutton, Masters of Art Education, and Betty Ann Sharp, Bachelors of English Literature. Adults only please. 6:30 Refreshments, Meet & Greet 7-8:00 Lecture, Q & A March 6^th, 2008 Get it signed! Collecting autographs by Larry Finkelstein Be prepared to see some one-of-a-kind pieces! 6:30 Refreshments, Meet & Greet 7-8:00 Lecture, Q & A February 5^th and 7^th, 2009 Choke Points, Book signing and reading by Mike Walling Stretching from the treacherous shores of Iraq to inner circles of power in Washington, DC, Choke Points leads the reader deep into the heart of the War on Terror and the real threats of attack on the U.S. This is the first book of the Fletcher Saga that stretches from the tumultuous Colonial times to the ever-dangerous present. http://www.mikewalling.com/ Thursday, April 23^rd, 2009 at 7:00pm Book Signing and Lecture Framingham Legends & Lore By James Parr & Kevin Swope http://www.historypress.net/ Bearly Read Books’ book club will start June 25^th, 2009 at 6:30pm. We will be starting with a classic with local connections. Little Women is a novel by Louisa May Alcott(1832-1888). Written and set in the Alcott Family home, Orchard House, in Concord, MA. Come in and pick up a copy if you don’t have one and join us. Refreshments will be served. Bearly Read Books’ book club will meet next on July 30^th, 2009at 6:30pm. We will be discussing The Grapes of Wrath a novel by John Steinbeck. Written in 1939 it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. Come in and pick up a copy if you don’t have one and join us. Refreshments will be served and a copy of the first edition will be available for viewing or purchase. Bearly Read Books’ book club will meet next on August 27^th, 2009at 6:30pm. We will be discussing The Great Gatsby a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in 1925, it is considered one of the top 100 novels in English. Come in and pick up a copy if you don’t have one and join us. Refreshments will be served and a copy of the first edition will be available for viewing or purchase. Bearly Read Books’ book club will meet next on September 24^th, 2009at 6:30pm. We will be discussing Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Published in 1938, it is considered her best work. Come in and pick up a copy if you don’t have one and join us. Refreshments will be served and a copy of the first edition will be available for viewing or purchase. Bearly Read Books’ book club will meet next on October 29^th at 6:30pm. We will be discussing The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. Published in 1926, it’s Ernest Hemingway’s first major novel. Come in and pick up a copy if you don’t have one and join us. Refreshments will be served and a copy of the first edition will be available for viewing or purchase. Bearly Read Books’ book club will meet next on December 3^rd at 6:30pm. We will be discussing Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Published in 1847, it’s considered classic English literature. Come in and pick up a copy if you don’t have one and join us. Refreshments will be served and a copy of an early edition will be available for viewing or purchase. Bearly Read Books’ book club will meet next on January 28^th at 6:30pm. We will be discussing Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. Learn the story behind this book published in 1961 and a title that quickly became part of our language. Come in and pick up a copy if you don’t have one and join us. Refreshments will be served and a signed copy of the first edition will be available for viewing or purchase. Bearly Read Books’ book club will meet next on February 25^th at 6:30pm. We will be discussing North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. First published in 1855, this is an early social novel on the industrial age. Come in and pick up a copy if you don’t have one and join us. Refreshments will be served. March 25^th we will be discussing Maggie Cassidy by Jack Kerouac. Bearly Read Books’ book club will meet next on April 29^th at 6:30pm. We will be discussing Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. First published in 1973. Come in and pick up a copy if you don’t have one and join us. Refreshments will be served. May 27^th we will be discussing Evangeline poem published in 1847by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as part of the National Endowment of the Arts Big Read. http://longfellow.wayside.org/ [Upcoming Lectures]

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