Sedgwick Reading Room

Launch of Ron Ramsay’s Berkshire Salon Series

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

Ron Ramsay launches his Berkshire Salon Series, dedicated to and inspired by Ron’s lifelong friend and mentor, the late great Berkshire socialite, singer, and entrepreneur Stephanie Barber (d. 2003), founder of the Music Inn and [...]

Distinguished Lecture Series: Tom Bernard

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, January 26, 2025 at 4:00 p.m., with Tom Bernard, President and CEO of the Berkshire United Way. 2024 marks [...]

Distinguished Lecture Series: Smitty Pignatelli

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, November 17, 2024 at 4:00 p.m., the featured speaker will be none other than Lenox's own Smitty Pignatelli, who [...]

Distinguished Lecture Series: Ben Nickley

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., Ben Nickley, President and Executive Director of Berkshire Bird Observatory, will discuss "Comprehensive [...]

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 [...]

Best-selling author Candice Millard

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

The Lenox Library Association will host best-selling author Candice Millard on Thursday, September 19, 2024  at 5:00 p.m. in the Lenox Library's Reading Room, located at 18 Main Street. Entry is free to the presentation. [...]

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 [...]

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