Readers young and old have embraced Barbara Cooney’s Miss Rumphius, about the lupine lady who made the world more beautiful, since its publication four decades ago. Harry & Hilda: Letters Home, The Sparkling Life of the Lupine Lady and the Professor Who Made It Possible is the story of the “real” Miss Rumphius, Hilda Edwards, […]
On Saturday, May 20th come peruse our historic Pepperell postcards in the Jeanne Palmer History Room at Lawrence Library and enjoy viewing the Shattuck bird collection in the Lyceum. The history room will be open 10:30-1:30. Coffee, tea and pastries will be available in the Lyceum. The Jeanne Palmer History Room and Shattuck bird collection […]
Join us for an evening with artist, orchardist, and writer Linda Hoffman. Linda saved an orchard and reshaped her life at Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard, Massachusetts. When she moved to the farm she didn't know anything about apple-growing. More than twenty years later, the farm is one of the few organic pick-your-own orchards […]
