The Boston Public Library issued the data that it will be using in evaluating potential branch closures. (BPL press release along with their Measures and Definitions and the spreadsheets of the BPL Data.) Depending on how you look at it, the data has mixed implications for the North End Branch. The circulation and public use Read More…
Carmine Vittoria discusses his book, Bitter Chicory to Sweet Espresso: Survival and Deliverance from WWII in the Naples, Italy, Area 1940-49, which relates events of WWII as witnessed by the author as a child. Where: North End Branch Library, 25 Parmenter Street When: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 @ 6:30 p.m.
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, The Grapes of Wrath, chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their Read More…
