To close this season’s Reading Room Music Series the Friends of the Robbins Library is delighted to welcome Erin Ash Sullivan. Erin is a Massachusetts-based, Americana/folk singer-songwriter who loves a good storytelling song. In 2021 she released her debut solo … Continued
Join the Friends of the Robbins Library for a moderated discussion on local journalism: Why All News is Local, featuring local journalists Jeff Barnd of Arlington Community Media (ACMi), Crystal Haynes of Channel 25 News, and Bob Sprague of YourArlington.com. Hear … Continued
Perhaps some of the most famous sisters of all time are the Jo, Amy, Meg, and Beth of Little Women fame, the classic coming-of-age story set in Civil War-era Concord, Mass. Their real life inspirations were the Alcotts, Louisa, Anna, … Continued
In the next of the series of Reading Room Concerts the Friends of the Robbins Library are delighted to bring you creator and singer Heather Gallagher and accompanist Yukiko Oba. If well behaved women seldom make history, they certainly don’t … Continued
Donations Needed! We will need lots of great donations to make a great Sale. Please bring donated items to the Robbins Library beginning Wednesday, February 1 – look for the big blue bin near the Circulation Desk; we appreciate gently used … Continued
The Friends’ Reading Room Concert Series continues with a performance by acclaimed international recording and touring classical guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan; his solo program is titled ‘Looking Bach, Listening Forward’. Aaron is recognized as an exciting and innovative leader in classical music, … Continued
The Friends invite you to this evening with journalist, novelist and teacher Jan Brogan to discuss her book, The Combat Zone: Murder, Race and Boston’s Struggle for Justice. It was the most publicized murder of the 1970s. The victim, Harvard … Continued
The Friends’ Reading Room Concert Series is back live in 2023, and we are delighted to welcome Louise Grasmere and Linda Shoemaker to open the Series for us. With acoustic guitar, vocals and percussion they will bring songs from the … Continued
For this event we will be joined by teacher, attorney, and author Amy M. Watson whose “soul awakens when visiting libraries, museums, and historic sites”. Infants of the Brush, her debut novel, is historical fiction based on Armory v. Delamirie, a … Continued
The Friends is welcoming back the Delvena Theatre Company for this special presentation at the Robbins Library. Charles Dickens wrote some of the most powerful, imaginative, and adored novels of all time. Using lots of humor, the actors will take … Continued