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700 Massachusetts Avenue
Arlington, MA 02476
P: 781-316-3200
| Monday - Wednesday | 9 AM - 9 PM |
| Thursday | 1 PM - 9 PM |
| Friday - Saturday | 9 AM - 5 PM |
| Sunday | 2 PM - 5 PM |
We will meet at the library and walk between 1.5-3 miles mostly along the Arlington Cultural District and Minuteman Bikeway. This is a great way to stay active and make some new friends in your community. Getting regular physical activity is one of the best things you can do for your health. Weather permitting.
This month we'll be discussing River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard. Books are available for pickup at the Robbins Library. Attend in person or online! Zoom Meeting ID: 826 1666 2317 Passcode: y6M2he
Stop by and ask a librarian your technology-related questions. If we can't help with a specific issue you are having, we will do our best to point you to resources that can! Email arlington@minlib.net with any questions.
English NOW!, an Arlington-based group, offers English-language learners opportunities to practice their conversation skills, advance their knowledge of vocabulary and grammar, and make connections in the community. Participants in these free conversation groups discuss varied subjects under the supervision of native speakers. Zoom conversation groups are also available. Email englishnowArlington@gmail.com for the Zoom links. Zoom …
Zoom Program Register: shorturl.at/gpCE1 In the 1600's, on the banks of the Saugus River, something extraordinary happened -- the birth of the American Iron and Steel Industry! Explore the place where European iron makers brought their special skills to a young Massachusetts colony. Saugus Iron Works is a twelve-acre National Historic Site that includes working …
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We will meet at the library and walk between 1.5-3 miles mostly along the Arlington Cultural District and Minuteman Bikeway. This is a great way to stay active and make some new friends in your community. Getting regular physical activity is one of the best things you can do for your health. Weather permitting.
Zoom Program Register: https://shorturl.at/xDK03 Author Emily Franklin will discuss her brand new novel, 'The Lioness of Boston,' in conversation with author Dawn Tripp, in this ZOOM webinar. 'The Lioness of Boston' is a deeply evocative novel of the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who created an inimitable legacy in American art and …
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All aspiring and experienced poets are invited to the Arlington Poet Laureate's Drop-in Hours. Participants should have 10 copies of a poem they’d like to share — and a notebook for workshop writing exercises. Contact Jean Flanagan at jean.poetlaureatearlington@gmail.com
English NOW!, an Arlington-based group, offers English-language learners opportunities to practice their conversation skills, advance their knowledge of vocabulary and grammar, and make connections in the community. Participants in these free conversation groups discuss varied subjects under the supervision of native speakers. Zoom conversation groups are also available. Email englishnowArlington@gmail.com for the Zoom links. Zoom …
Zoom Program Register: shorturl.at/lmQ14 From the sweet little farm at the foot of Penn’s Hill to the gentleman’s country estate at Peace Field, Adams National Historical Park is the story of “heroes, statesman, philosophers … and learned women” whose ideas and actions helped to transform thirteen disparate colonies into one united nation. Learn about this …
Are you working on a poem you’d like to share but don’t feel it’s ready for your poetry group? Did you just start writing poetry and you’re not sure of what you have on the page? Come share and work on your poetry with the Arlington Poet Laureate, Jean Flanagan.
This month we’re reading The Age of Acrimony: how Americans fought to fix their democracy (1865-1915)- by Jon Grinspan. The book focuses on a period in history whose politics in many ways paralleled our own. Copies can be picked up at Robbins or Fox Branch libraries, just ask for the Guys Book Group book. This …
We will meet at the library and walk between 1.5-3 miles mostly along the Arlington Cultural District and Minuteman Bikeway. This is a great way to stay active and make some new friends in your community. Getting regular physical activity is one of the best things you can do for your health. Weather permitting.
Our cookbook will be In Bibi’s Kitchen: the recipes and stories of grandmothers from the eight African countries that touch the Indian Ocean by Hawa Hassan with Julia Turshen. To register, send the name of the recipe you want to bring to Linda at ldyndiuk@minlib.net. Space is limited; registration closes May 10.
Are you working on a poem you’d like to share but don’t feel it’s ready for your poetry group? Did you just start writing poetry and you’re not sure of what you have on the page? Come share and work on your poetry with the Arlington Poet Laureate, Jean Flanagan.
This month’s Social Justice Book Group selection will discuss His Name is George Floyd: one man's life and the struggle for racial justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa. This book will discuss George Floyd’s life in the larger context of the history of systemic racism in the United States. Copies available in our Arlington …
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English NOW!, an Arlington-based group, offers English-language learners opportunities to practice their conversation skills, advance their knowledge of vocabulary and grammar, and make connections in the community. Participants in these free conversation groups discuss varied subjects under the supervision of native speakers. Zoom conversation groups are also available. Email englishnowArlington@gmail.com for the Zoom links. Zoom …
Stop by and ask a librarian your technology-related questions. If we can't help with a specific issue you are having, we will do our best to point you to resources that can! Email arlington@minlib.net with any questions.
Arlington resident Marion Kilson, a volunteer with the Friends of the Robbins Library, and Gwen Wong, the Secretary for the Friends will discuss Martin Kilson’s memoir, A Black Intellectual’s Odyssey: From a Pennsylvania Milltown to the Ivy League. Kilson takes readers on a fascinating journey from his upbringing in the small Pennsylvania milltown of Ambler, …
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The Robbins Library has de-accessioned its collection of Vinyl and the Friends of the Robbins Library is planning a huge sale! There will be almost 3,000 albums on offer in a variety of genres – jazz, classical, popular, and everything in between. Come browse and buy from the Library’s record album collection. Prices are $3.00 …
We will meet at the library and walk between 1.5-3 miles mostly along the Arlington Cultural District and Minuteman Bikeway. This is a great way to stay active and make some new friends in your community. Getting regular physical activity is one of the best things you can do for your health. Weather permitting.
Struggling to meet basic needs such as housing, food, or employment? A social worker is available to answer questions about social services in and around Arlington.
English NOW!, an Arlington-based group, offers English-language learners opportunities to practice their conversation skills, advance their knowledge of vocabulary and grammar, and make connections in the community. Participants in these free conversation groups discuss varied subjects under the supervision of native speakers. Zoom conversation groups are also available. Email englishnowArlington@gmail.com for the Zoom links. Zoom …
Zoom Program Register: shorturl.at/lJT36 Lowell’s water-powered textile mills catapulted the nation – including immigrant families and early female factory workers – into an uncertain new industrial era. Nearly 200 years later, the changes that began here still reverberate in our shifting global economy and serve as a living testament to the dynamic human story of …
Near the Robbins Library is Arlington’s Old Burying Ground, established back in 1724 when Arlington was the Second Precinct of Cambridge and called Menotomy. In this program, Local History Librarian Steven Prochet will give a tour of the Old Burying Ground, profiling those buried in the cemetery like Jason Russell and Samuel Abbott Smith, explain …
English NOW!, an Arlington-based group, offers English-language learners opportunities to practice their conversation skills, advance their knowledge of vocabulary and grammar, and make connections in the community. Participants in these free conversation groups discuss varied subjects under the supervision of native speakers. Zoom conversation groups are also available. Email englishnowArlington@gmail.com for the Zoom links. Zoom …
The May selection is Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park. Copies of Love in the Big City are available at the Robbins Library Circulation Desk. The book group will meet on Wednesday May 31st from 7:00-8:00 p.m. in the Robbins Library 4th floor conference room and on Zoom. Newcomers are welcome! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82574195308 …
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Empower yourself to treat everyday health issues with safe, effective, fast-acting, and inexpensive natural remedies: cuts and scrapes, colds and flu, burns and bruises, sports injuries and travel illnesses, bee stings, and allergies. Homeopath Begabati Lennihan, RN, CCH, of Green Healing, will share how to treat yourself, your family, and even your dogs, and cats. …
Stop by and ask a librarian your technology-related questions. If we can't help with a specific issue you are having, we will do our best to point you to resources that can! Email arlington@minlib.net with any questions.
This book group is dedicated to reading and discussing books about science and the many different disciplines and topics it encompasses. Join us every other month to make friends and acquire new knowledge! We’ll be discussing The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan. This is a hybrid event …
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