Sedgwick Reading Room

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 [...]

Dr. James Hatt, “Russia: The Inevitability of Now”

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

Please join us on Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 5:30 p.m. for a timely and important presentation by Dr. James Hatt on “Russia: The Inevitability of Now.” This program will be held in person as [...]

Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach

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

Barrington Stage Company partners with Lenox Library to create a magical night of music, reading and fun with Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach.

Top Bananas! A Family Show Presented by The Nutshell Playhouse

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

FAMILY SHOW AT THE LENOX LIBRARY Bring the kids! Nutshell Playhouse kicks up its heels at the Lenox Library! Top Bananas! Description:   A fantasy filled performance of visual and musical delights, with special guests Annie Anaconda, [...]

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Billy Budd in the Breadbox: a Dramatic Staging

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

The Lenox Library Association and The Bookstore in Lenox Present: Jana Laiz and the Berkshire Theater Group with a Dramatic Staging of: Billy Budd in the Breadbox By Jana Laiz Illustrated by Declan Kerr This [...]

Housatonic CCC Quarterly Meeting

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

Quarterly meeting of the EPA Housatonic Citizen's Coordinating Council, which meets periodically to have input into the GE cleanup of the Housatonic River. Meetings are open to the public.

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