May

6 Tuesday	Exhibition Reception, Always Delightfully Cool: Summer Vacations in Northern New England, 1825-1900, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
7 Wednesday	Tea at the Athenæum, 3 p.m.
10 Saturday	Associate Members Annual Meeting and Coffee Connection. Thanking Council Members and vote on the slate of officers for the next year and review fall events. 10a.m. - 12noon. Resevations appreciated at woo@bostonathenaeum.org
12 Monday	Life Members' Reception. By invitation only, 5:30 p.m.
15 Thursday	Book Talk, Marilyn Yalom, The American Resting Place: 400 Years Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds, at Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, Time TBA
21 Wednesday	Tea at the Athenæum, 3 p.m.
31 Saturday	Associate Members Tour of Mt. Auburn Cemetery with Reception. 1:50 p.m. (at Mt. Auburn). Limited to 35 people. For Reservations please call 617-720-7680, by May 28.

June

10 Tuesday	Book talk, Of Men and Their Mothers: a novel. Book talk with author Mameve Medwed. 12 noon. Reservations accepted May 8, please call 617-720-7600.
17 Tuesday	Book talk, The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein. Book talk with John Lauritsen.6p.m. Reservations accepted May 20, please call 617-720-7600.
24 Tuesday	Book talk, Cost: a novel. Book talk with author Roxana Robinson. 12 noon. Reservations accepted May 13, please call 617-720-7600.

 

Please Note: Invitations to all events and lectures will be mailed to members prior to the event, and no reservations will be accepted until invitations have been sent. 

To reserve, please call 617-720-7600.

WEBCASTS of BOSTON ATHENÆUM LECTURES
The Boston Athenæum and the WGBH Forum Network are working together to broadcast selected Athenæum lectures.
Click here for a listing of lectures available in audio, broadband and now MP3 files.
Click here to listen and view the list of lectures.

SECOND SHOWINGS of LECTURES
Videorecordings of lectures will be shown on the day following at noon in the Coolidge Conference Room on level 1G. Reservations are not necessary.

IN THE GALLERY: Always Delightfully Cool: Summer Vacations in Northern new England, May 7 - August 22, 2008.

Book sales at author events at the Boston Athenæum courtesy of: THE GLOBE CORNER BOOKSTORE , 90 Mt. Auburn Street , Harvard Square Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 497.6277 http://www.globecorner.com/