Annual Meeting
The Friends’ Annual Meeting occurs in the fall and includes an invited speaker. The public is welcome to attend and enjoy the speaker’s presentation, which takes place after a brief business meeting.
The 2026 Annual Meeting will take place on Saturday, November 14 at First Parish Church United, 48 Main Street. The speaker is local author Meg Mitchell Moore.
The business portion of the afternoon will begin at 2:00 pm, and Meg will speak at 2:30. The public is invited to attend and enjoy the speaker; only members and donors can vote.
Check back here for more details as the date gets closer!
THIS YEAR’S EVENT
PAST SPEAKERS
The Friends have hosted authors on a variety of fiction and non-fiction topics over the years.
2025: Ted Reinstein (Travels Through the Heart and Soul of New England) [Read Blog Post]
2024: Dan Souza (America’s Test Kitchen 25: 500 Recipes That Changed the Way America Cooks) [Read Bog Post or View Photos]
2023: Marcella Pixley (Trowbridge Road) [Read Blog Post]
2022: (Speaker unable to attend)
2021: E. Dolores Johnson (Say I’m Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets and Love) (Held virtually on Zoom)
2020: Stephen Puleo (Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America’s First Humanitarian Mission) (Held virtually on Zoom)
2019: Marianne Leone (Ma Speaks Up)
2018: Kate Clifford Larson (Rosemary)
2017: Brunonia Barry (The Fifth Petal)
2016: Joe Bagley (A History of Boston in 50 Artifacts)
2015: Lylah Alphonse (news collection & reporting in the digital age)
2014: Hank Phillippi Ryan (Truth Be Told)
2013: Bridget Lancaster (The Science of Good Cooking)
2012: Andre Dubus III (Townie)
2011: Charlie Pierce (Idiot America)
2010: Elinor Lipman (The Family Man)
2009: Matthew Pearl (The Last Dickens)
2008: Elizabeth Royte (Bottlemania)
2007: Eric Jay Dolin (Leviathan)
2006: Jim McAllister (of Derby Square Tours, on Salem witch trials)
