Upcoming Programs

 
 
 

         

         The Friends of the Lawrence Public Library

             Invite you to a Reading

             by author Alvin F. Oickle, of his book,

          Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill

           Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 6:00 p.m.

           The Local History Room  on the 3rd floor of The Lawrence Public Library

 

 

      

 

 

 

Text Box:   The destruction was unimaginable. Workers in nearby factories watched with horror as the Pemberton Mill buckled and then collapsed, trapping more than six hundred workers, many of them women and children. Alvin F. Oickle’s riveting account illustrates why, nearly a century and a half later, the Pemberton collapse is still considered one of the worst industrial calamities in American history.

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                

       Mr. Oickle will also discuss:    The Pemberton Casualties, The companion book to: Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill

       Books will be available to purchase.                                             

 

 

 
Text Box: 09/22/2008         The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard                                Anatole France   10/20/2008         Buying a Fishing Rod for My Father                        Gao Xingjian   11/17/2008         The Burger’s Daughter                                               Nadine Gordimer   12/15/2008         One on a Side: An Evening with Robert Frost and Seamus Heaney   01/26/2009         Tonio Kröger                                                               Thomas Mann   02/23/2009         A Bend in the River                                                      V.A. Naipaul   03/23/2009         Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids                                     Kenzaburo Oe       04/27/2009         Kristin Lavransdatter V.1 The Bridal Wreath          Sigrid Undset                Text Box: The book club meets on the Monday evenings listed above at 6:00 p.m. in the Local History Room on the third floor of the Main Library at 51 Lawrence Street. Refreshments will be served. Books will be available at the circulation desk a month before the group meets. For more information please contact Louise Sandberg at 978-682-1727 or lsandberg@mvlc.org. Text Box:  The Friends of the Lawrence Public Library invite the public to read and discuss eight works of literature by Nobel Laureates.