Sedgwick Reading Room

Distinguished Lecture Series: Paul Catanzaro

Sedgwick Reading Room 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA, United States

We are pleased to continue the Distinguished Lecture Series, now in its 18th season.  On Sunday, October 20, 2024 at 4:00 p.m., the featured speaker will be Paul Catanzaro. 70% of Massachusetts’ forests are family [...]

Reader. Voter. Ready: Understanding Your Ballot

Sedgwick Reading Room 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Be confident going into the voting booth!  Join us as we welcome the League of Women Voters of Central Berkshire County to review the questions that will appear on the November 2024 Massachusetts ballot: Question [...]

Distinguished Lecture Series: Michael Hannahan

Sedgwick Reading Room 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA, United States

We are pleased to continue the Distinguished Lecture Series, now in its 18th season.  On Sunday, September 22, 2024 at 4:00 p.m., Michael Hannahan returns to kick off the 2024-2025 season with a discussion of [...]

Truth Matters: Confronting Disinformation in Social Media

Sedgwick Reading Room 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Author and Futurist Andrew Edwards hosts a lively discussion about disinformation, the ills of social media and the challenges presented by AI. Do we pay too high a price for instant connectivity? Do social media [...]

Amy Kurzweil, Author of Artificial: A Love Story

Sedgwick Reading Room 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Please join us for an evening with New Yorker cartoonist Amy Kurzweil, in conversation with screenwriter and historian Nannina Gilder, as she discusses her most recent graphic memoir, Artificial: A Love Story.  Books will be available [...]

Nutshell Playhouse presents: “Saving Jazzy”

Sedgwick Reading Room 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Can Mambo and Nemonee save the beautiful but endangered Floratius Serendipitus? Follow them on their hilarious adventures around the globe as they look for the special ingredients that will do the trick. Featuring masks, movement, [...]

Pain Killer: Barry Meier in Conversation with Marty Baron

Sedgwick Reading Room 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA, United States

We're delighted to welcome back Pulitzer Prize winners Barry Meier and Marty Baron to discuss Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic, Meier's landmark book that first chronicled the [...]

Stephen Vladeck in Conversation with Linda Greenhouse

Sedgwick Reading Room 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA, United States

The Library is delighted to partner with our friends from The Bookstore to present acclaimed legal scholar Stephen Vladeck in conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner Linda Greenhouse. In his instant New York Times bestseller, The [...]

Distinguished Lecture Series: The Hidden People of the Berkshires

Sedgwick Reading Room 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA, United States

We are pleased to continue our Distinguished Lecture Series, now in its 16th season.  On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 4:00 p.m., the leaders of Central Berkshire Habitat for Humanity; Construct; and Western Massachusetts Labor [...]

Columbus the Elephant: a talk by Leo Mahoney

Sedgwick Reading Room 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Leo Mahoney returns to the Lenox Library to give a talk on Columbus the Elephant, who met his demise behind a barn on Old Stockbridge Road in 1851. The multimedia PowerPoint presentation has been updated [...]

Midwinter Day Marathon Reading

Sedgwick Reading Room 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA, United States

The Lenox Library is pleased to co-host an event with The Bookstore, in association with St. Rocco's Poetry Collective in Albany, NY, in memory of their late good friend, poet Bernadette Mayer.  On January 7, [...]

Lenox Land Trust Annual Meeting

Sedgwick Reading Room 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA, United States

The Annual Meeting for the Lenox Land Trust will be held in the Sedgwick Reading Room. Local History Librarian Amy Lafave will give a presentation on the the Under Mountain Valley of yesteryear. This area [...]

Lenox Library Association Annual Meeting – Open Forum

Sedgwick Reading Room 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Are you curious about what the board does and how the library is doing?  Do you have an opinion about what it could be doing?  Would you like to get involved with the library?  If [...]

Distinguished Lecture Series: Donald Morrison, “The New Gilded Age”

Sedgwick Reading Room 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA, United States

We are pleased to continue our Distinguished Lecture Series, now in its 16th season.  On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 4:00 p.m., author and journalist Donald Morrison will discuss the ways in which our current [...]

The Modern Jazz Quartet: From Residency to Legacy

Sedgwick Reading Room 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA, United States

The Library is thrilled to kick off the 2022 Lenox Jazz Stroll on Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. with a screening of The Modern Jazz Quartet: From Residency to Legacy (2018), a documentary [...]

Distinguished Lecture Series: Carl Sprague, “Making Pictures”

Sedgwick Reading Room 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA, United States

We are pleased to kick off our 16th Annual Distinguished Lecture Series on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at 4:00 p.m., when Carl Sprague will talk about his work as a designer for stage and film, [...]

Carolyn Kay Brancato, Author of The Night Belongs to the Maquis

Sedgwick Reading Room 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Join the Lenox Library's book club on Tuesday, July 5, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. when Berkshire author Carolyn Kay Brancato will discuss her latest novel, The Night Belongs to the Maquis: A World War II [...]

“When I think, I must speak:” The World Stage of Fanny Kemble

Sedgwick Reading Room 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA, United States

In 1868, British actress Frances Anne “Fanny” Kemble gave a reading of “As You Like It” to benefit the Lenox Library. The event was staged at the county courthouse in Lenox; Judge Julius Rockwell lamented [...]

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