Groups to Join
Membership is not required to participate in groups at the Athenaeum. All are welcome!

La Tertulia
Meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesday
from 5:00 to 7:00 PM
at the Athenaeum
La Tertulia is a group of people interested in keeping their Spanish speaking skills in practice.

 

Book Group
Meets the 2nd Saturday
from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
at the Athenaeum
Open discussion meeting on wide variety of fiction and non-fiction works, new and classics.

Upcoming discussions:

2021

Jan. 9
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Feb. 13
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

Mar. 13
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

Apr. 10
Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (Revised and Expanded Edition), by Walter Kaufmann

May 8
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Jun. 12
The Legend of Bagger Vance 
by Steven Pressfield

July: No meeting

August 14: As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

September 18: The Body Papers by Grace Talusan

October 9: We Have Always Lived at the Castle by Shirley Jackson

November 13:  Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

December 11: Nomadland by Jessica Bruder

 

 

 

 

Monday Evening Conversations
Meets 2nd Mondays at 7:00 PM
Topics for discussion are wide open, but must be amenable to good conversation.

 

Reappraisal Reading Circle
Meets Bi-monthly on Third Wednesdays
at 7:00 PM
Open meeting discussing the works of a prolific, popular author of the past whose works are held in quantity by the Athenaeum.

2020-21 Discussions:

Sep 16
Rolf Boldrewood, pen name of Thomas Alexander Browne (1826-1915)

Nov 18
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Jan 27
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)

Mar 17
Rumer Godden(1907-1998)

May 19 Sign up here.
Francis Brett Young (1884-1954)

 

The Dickens Fellowship
North of Boston Branch, #204
Meets the 1st Saturday of the month
from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM at the Athenaeum

Meetings are a combination of book club, social events, student programming, study groups, and community service and education. Members are involved to the degree which suits them and fulfills their personal goals. Many members enjoy just book discussions while others enjoy the programming, planning, and activities. We invite you to join our Fellowship and rekindle your enjoyment of reading Dickens or start anew.

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