This year, our monthly book will continue with online meetings at 7:00 pm on the First Tuesday of the month. To receive login details for our Zoom sessions, please RSVP with the form below or send an email to info@norwoodhistoricalsociety.org . Please note that copies of our selected books are available to participants via the Morrill Memorial Library.
We are also holding a special series of meetings focussed on Norwood history books, as part of our celebration of the 1872 incorporation of the town. ALL ARE WELCOME TO JOIN!
Books schedule for 2021-2022
| 7 September 2021 | Colin Woodward, Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier |
| 5 October 2021 | Carol F. Karlsen, The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England |
| 2 November 2021 | Eve LaPlante, American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans |
| 7 December 2021 | Henry David Thoreau, Short Essay on Civil Obedience & Slavery in Massachusetts |
| 4 January 2022 | Jane Goodrich, The House at Lobster Cove |
| 1 February 2022 | Stephen Kendrick, Sarah’s Long Walk: The Free Blacks Of Boston And How Their Struggle For Equality Changed America |
| 1 March 2022 | Louisa May Alcott, Transcendental Wild Oats |
| 5 April 2022 | Allison Hepler, McCarthyism in the Suburbs: Quakers, Communists, and the Children’s Librarian |
| 3 May 2022 | Donald Hall, String Too Short to be Saved: Memories of a Disappearing New England |