AUTUMN at the Boston Athenæum 2009

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September 2009

7 Monday Boston Athenæum closed for Labor Day 8:30 am - 5:30 pm

9 Wednesday Wednesday evening hours begin September 9th 8:30 am - 8:00 pm

12 Saturday Associate Members Coffee Connection: Literary Classics, A-Z 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

15 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

19 Saturday Gallery Talk at the Boston Public Library with James Reid-Cunningham, Chief Conservator 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

19 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

22 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

22 Tuesday Exhibition Opening Reception 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

25 Friday Lecture, Timothy Knox, The Strange Genius of Sir John Soane 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

26 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

28 Monday Gallery Talk 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

28 Monday Young Readers' Book Group 6:00 pm - 6:00 pm

29 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

October 2009

1 Thursday Noon Music, Four Hands on the Harpsichord 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm

1 Thursday Lecture, The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

3 Saturday My Athenæum Event 10:30 am - 2:00 pm

5 Monday First Mondays Library Orientation 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

6 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

7 Wednesday Lecture, Eleonora Sears & the Birth of the Modern World 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

8 Thursday Story Time 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

9 Friday Lecture, Oh Right, Policing Femininity, and other Queer Matters in Figure Skating. 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

10 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

12 Monday Boston Athenæum closed for Columbus Day 8:30 am - 8:00 pm

13 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

14 Wednesday Gallery Talk 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

14 Wednesday Afternoon Tea 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

15 Thursday Story Time 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

17 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

17 Saturday Associate Members Visit to Firefly Press 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

19 Monday Third Mondays Library Orientation 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

20 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

20 Tuesday Canceled! On Architecture: Ada Louise Huxtable, in conversation with Elizabeth Padjen 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

22 Thursday Story Time 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

24 Saturday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

25 Sunday Story Time 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

26 Monday Gallery Talk 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

26 Monday Young Readers' Book Group 6:00 pm - 6:00 pm

27 Tuesday Story Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am

28 Wednesday Afternoon Tea 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

29 Thursday Story Time 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

29 Thursday Lecture, Nicholas Jose, The Literature of Australia 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

November 2009

2 Monday First Mondays Library Orientation 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

3 Tuesday Lecture, Peter Walsh, King Ashurbanipal's Library & the Lessons of Nineveh 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

4 Wednesday Gallery Talk 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

4 Wednesday Afternoon Tea 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

5 Thursday Lecture, in collaboration with The Boston Globe, Nicholas Thompson: The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

7 Saturday Associate Members Coffee Connection: Rose Nichols, Amy Lowell, Robert Gould Shaw and The Boston Athenaeum 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

7 Saturday Associate Members Tour of the Nichols House Museum 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

16 Monday Third Mondays Library Orientation 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

17 Tuesday Lecture, David Dearinger, Frederic Edwin Church 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

18 Wednesday Afternoon Tea 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

23 Monday Young Readers' Book Group 6:00 pm - 6:00 pm

25 Wednesday The Library will close at 5:30 November, 25 5:30 pm - 5:30 pm

26 Thursday Boston Athenæum closed for Thanksgiving 8:30 am - 5:30 pm

December 2009

1 Tuesday Royal Oak Lecture, The History of the English Country House Servant 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

2 Wednesday Gallery Talk 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

2 Wednesday Afternoon Tea 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

3 Thursday Noon Music, Carols & Coloratura 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm

3 Thursday Lecture, Terry Teachout, Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

3 Thursday Associates After Hours 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

7 Monday First Mondays Library Orientation 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

14 Monday Library Opens at 1 p.m. 1:00 pm - 8:00 pm

15 Tuesday Lecture, Keith Thomson, The Young Charles Darwin 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

16 Wednesday Afternoon Tea 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

21 Monday Young Readers' Book Group 6:00 pm - 6:00 pm

24 Thursday Early Closing 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm

25 Friday Holiday Closing 8:30 am - 4:00 pm