Associates of the Boston Public Library
@associatesbpl.bsky.social
An independent nonprofit dedicated to preserving & digitizing the Boston Public Library’s Special Collections.
https://www.associatesbpl.org/
https://www.associatesbpl.org/
On Wednesday, the Associates’ Board and Literary Lights Committees gathered at the home of gala Chair Karen Osborn for a kickoff party, co-hosted by her Co-Chair Natalie Lemle!
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
On Wednesday, the Associates’ Board and Literary Lights Committees gathered at the home of gala Chair Karen Osborn for a kickoff party, co-hosted by her Co-Chair Natalie Lemle!
Happy Thanksgiving from the Associates of the Boston Public Library! 🦃 This chromolithograph of a turkey from the late 1800s is housed in the BPL's Louis Prang & Company Collection.
November 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from the Associates of the Boston Public Library! 🦃 This chromolithograph of a turkey from the late 1800s is housed in the BPL's Louis Prang & Company Collection.
Happy Fall! Enjoy this 1888 landscape print titled ‘Autumn,’ by John, d. Mazzanovich from the BPL’s Louis Prang & Company Collection.
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Happy Fall! Enjoy this 1888 landscape print titled ‘Autumn,’ by John, d. Mazzanovich from the BPL’s Louis Prang & Company Collection.
Join the BPL on Friday, November 28, from 12-4 pm in the Special Collections Reading Room for a special open house where community cookbooks from the Rare Books Department will be on display.
November 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Join the BPL on Friday, November 28, from 12-4 pm in the Special Collections Reading Room for a special open house where community cookbooks from the Rare Books Department will be on display.
Please join the BPL for a special open house on November 25 from 2-4 pm in the Special Collections Reading Room to learn more about who architect Rafael Guastavino was, the history of his construction company, and his work at the BPL. Staff will be available to answer questions.
November 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Please join the BPL for a special open house on November 25 from 2-4 pm in the Special Collections Reading Room to learn more about who architect Rafael Guastavino was, the history of his construction company, and his work at the BPL. Staff will be available to answer questions.
Did you miss A Revelation of Character, our 7th Pierce Performance in collaboration with Plays in Place, honoring Boston's remarkable female abolitionists? We are excited to share a special performance recording- available on our YouTube channel for just two weeks!
https://youtu.be/knh85KLaRFo
https://youtu.be/knh85KLaRFo
November 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Did you miss A Revelation of Character, our 7th Pierce Performance in collaboration with Plays in Place, honoring Boston's remarkable female abolitionists? We are excited to share a special performance recording- available on our YouTube channel for just two weeks!
https://youtu.be/knh85KLaRFo
https://youtu.be/knh85KLaRFo
The work of the Associates to preserve and promote the BPL’s Special Collections is a stand against the current climate of erasure of our nation's history. Give now so that we can preserve our past to inform and inspire generations to come.
Donate here: https://www.associatesbpl.org/donate/
Donate here: https://www.associatesbpl.org/donate/
November 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The work of the Associates to preserve and promote the BPL’s Special Collections is a stand against the current climate of erasure of our nation's history. Give now so that we can preserve our past to inform and inspire generations to come.
Donate here: https://www.associatesbpl.org/donate/
Donate here: https://www.associatesbpl.org/donate/
There is just one chance left to see the Associates of the Boston Public Library’s 7th Pierce Performance, “A Revelation of Character,” in collaboration with Plays in Place!
Book free tickets for our Saturday, November 15 matinee here: https://pierce2025.eventbrite.com/?aff=bsky
📸: Ben Rose
Book free tickets for our Saturday, November 15 matinee here: https://pierce2025.eventbrite.com/?aff=bsky
📸: Ben Rose
November 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
There is just one chance left to see the Associates of the Boston Public Library’s 7th Pierce Performance, “A Revelation of Character,” in collaboration with Plays in Place!
Book free tickets for our Saturday, November 15 matinee here: https://pierce2025.eventbrite.com/?aff=bsky
📸: Ben Rose
Book free tickets for our Saturday, November 15 matinee here: https://pierce2025.eventbrite.com/?aff=bsky
📸: Ben Rose
Meet the Costume Designer of “A Revelation of Character,” a new play about Boston’s female abolitionists in collaboration between the Associates and Plays in Place!
Book free tickets for the November 12, 13, and 15 performances here: pierce2025.eventbrite.com?aff=bsky
Book free tickets for the November 12, 13, and 15 performances here: pierce2025.eventbrite.com?aff=bsky
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Meet the Costume Designer of “A Revelation of Character,” a new play about Boston’s female abolitionists in collaboration between the Associates and Plays in Place!
Book free tickets for the November 12, 13, and 15 performances here: pierce2025.eventbrite.com?aff=bsky
Book free tickets for the November 12, 13, and 15 performances here: pierce2025.eventbrite.com?aff=bsky
Meet the Stage Manager for “A Revelation of Character,” a new play about Boston’s female abolitionists in collaboration between the Associates' and @playsinplace.bsky.social !
Book free tickets for the November 12, 13, and 15 performances here: pierce2025.eventbrite.com?aff=bsky
Book free tickets for the November 12, 13, and 15 performances here: pierce2025.eventbrite.com?aff=bsky
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Meet the Stage Manager for “A Revelation of Character,” a new play about Boston’s female abolitionists in collaboration between the Associates' and @playsinplace.bsky.social !
Book free tickets for the November 12, 13, and 15 performances here: pierce2025.eventbrite.com?aff=bsky
Book free tickets for the November 12, 13, and 15 performances here: pierce2025.eventbrite.com?aff=bsky
Meet the Associate Producer of “A Revelation of Character,” a new play about Boston’s female abolitionists in collaboration between the Associates and @playsinplace.bsky.social!
Book free tickets for the November 12, 13, and 15 performances here: pierce2025.eventbrite.com?aff=bsky
Book free tickets for the November 12, 13, and 15 performances here: pierce2025.eventbrite.com?aff=bsky
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Meet the Associate Producer of “A Revelation of Character,” a new play about Boston’s female abolitionists in collaboration between the Associates and @playsinplace.bsky.social!
Book free tickets for the November 12, 13, and 15 performances here: pierce2025.eventbrite.com?aff=bsky
Book free tickets for the November 12, 13, and 15 performances here: pierce2025.eventbrite.com?aff=bsky
Meet the cast of “A Revelation of Character,” a new play about Boston’s female abolitionists in collaboration between the Associates and Plays in Place!
Book free tickets for the November 12, 13, and 15 performances here: https://pierce2025.eventbrite.com/?aff=bsky
Book free tickets for the November 12, 13, and 15 performances here: https://pierce2025.eventbrite.com/?aff=bsky
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Meet the cast of “A Revelation of Character,” a new play about Boston’s female abolitionists in collaboration between the Associates and Plays in Place!
Book free tickets for the November 12, 13, and 15 performances here: https://pierce2025.eventbrite.com/?aff=bsky
Book free tickets for the November 12, 13, and 15 performances here: https://pierce2025.eventbrite.com/?aff=bsky
Meet the cast of “A Revelation of Character,” a new play about Boston’s female abolitionists in collaboration between the Associates and Plays in Place!
Book free tickets for the November 12, 13, and 15 performances here: https://pierce2025.eventbrite.com/?aff=bsky
Book free tickets for the November 12, 13, and 15 performances here: https://pierce2025.eventbrite.com/?aff=bsky
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Meet the cast of “A Revelation of Character,” a new play about Boston’s female abolitionists in collaboration between the Associates and Plays in Place!
Book free tickets for the November 12, 13, and 15 performances here: https://pierce2025.eventbrite.com/?aff=bsky
Book free tickets for the November 12, 13, and 15 performances here: https://pierce2025.eventbrite.com/?aff=bsky
@patrickgabridge.bsky.social is the playwright behind the Associates of the Boston Public Library's 7th Pierce Performance, A Revelation of Character, a new hour-long play about Boston’s female abolitionists.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
@patrickgabridge.bsky.social is the playwright behind the Associates of the Boston Public Library's 7th Pierce Performance, A Revelation of Character, a new hour-long play about Boston’s female abolitionists.
Find out the inspiration behind the title of the Associates of the Boston Public Library's 7th Pierce Performance, a Revelation of Character. In collaboration with Plays in Place, written by Patrick Gabridge, directed by Lisa Rafferty.
Book free tickets: https://pierce2025.eventbrite.com/?aff=bsky
Book free tickets: https://pierce2025.eventbrite.com/?aff=bsky
November 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Find out the inspiration behind the title of the Associates of the Boston Public Library's 7th Pierce Performance, a Revelation of Character. In collaboration with Plays in Place, written by Patrick Gabridge, directed by Lisa Rafferty.
Book free tickets: https://pierce2025.eventbrite.com/?aff=bsky
Book free tickets: https://pierce2025.eventbrite.com/?aff=bsky
Happy Native American Heritage Month from the Associates!
This 1970 photo shows Native American advocate, Russell Charles Means, speaking to a crowd gathered around the statue of Massasoit in Plymouth on Thanksgiving Day.
This 1970 photo shows Native American advocate, Russell Charles Means, speaking to a crowd gathered around the statue of Massasoit in Plymouth on Thanksgiving Day.
November 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Happy Native American Heritage Month from the Associates!
This 1970 photo shows Native American advocate, Russell Charles Means, speaking to a crowd gathered around the statue of Massasoit in Plymouth on Thanksgiving Day.
This 1970 photo shows Native American advocate, Russell Charles Means, speaking to a crowd gathered around the statue of Massasoit in Plymouth on Thanksgiving Day.
Happy Halloween! 🎃
Get in the spirit of the day with BPL's Special and Research Collections! This open house will highlight items featuring the spooky, paranormal, and extraterrestrial from BPL's Research Collections.
Get in the spirit of the day with BPL's Special and Research Collections! This open house will highlight items featuring the spooky, paranormal, and extraterrestrial from BPL's Research Collections.
October 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Happy Halloween! 🎃
Get in the spirit of the day with BPL's Special and Research Collections! This open house will highlight items featuring the spooky, paranormal, and extraterrestrial from BPL's Research Collections.
Get in the spirit of the day with BPL's Special and Research Collections! This open house will highlight items featuring the spooky, paranormal, and extraterrestrial from BPL's Research Collections.
Save the Date! ✨ The Associates of the Boston Public Library cordially invite you to the 36th annual Literary Lights Gala on April 26, 2026, at the Fairmont Copley Plaza.
October 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Save the Date! ✨ The Associates of the Boston Public Library cordially invite you to the 36th annual Literary Lights Gala on April 26, 2026, at the Fairmont Copley Plaza.
Catch this new, hour-long production in collaboration between the Associates of the Boston Public Library and @playsinplace.bsky.social, on November 12, 13, and 15.
Reserve free tickets here: pierce2025.eventbrite.com?aff=bsky
Reserve free tickets here: pierce2025.eventbrite.com?aff=bsky
October 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Catch this new, hour-long production in collaboration between the Associates of the Boston Public Library and @playsinplace.bsky.social, on November 12, 13, and 15.
Reserve free tickets here: pierce2025.eventbrite.com?aff=bsky
Reserve free tickets here: pierce2025.eventbrite.com?aff=bsky
Enjoy this sneak peek of the costumes for 'A Revelation of Character.' Our wonderful costume designer, Kat Lawrence, created these renderings of costumes to match each character and their personality.
@patrickgabridge.bsky.social
@patrickgabridge.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Enjoy this sneak peek of the costumes for 'A Revelation of Character.' Our wonderful costume designer, Kat Lawrence, created these renderings of costumes to match each character and their personality.
@patrickgabridge.bsky.social
@patrickgabridge.bsky.social
Catch this new, hour-long production in collaboration between the @associatesbpl and @plays_in_place, on November 12, 13, and 15. Reserve free tickets here: pierce2025.eventbrite.com?aff=bsky
October 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Catch this new, hour-long production in collaboration between the @associatesbpl and @plays_in_place, on November 12, 13, and 15. Reserve free tickets here: pierce2025.eventbrite.com?aff=bsky
Enjoy this sneak peek of the costumes for 'A Revelation of Character.' Our wonderful costume designer, Kat Lawrence, created these renderings of costumes to match each character and their personality.
October 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Enjoy this sneak peek of the costumes for 'A Revelation of Character.' Our wonderful costume designer, Kat Lawrence, created these renderings of costumes to match each character and their personality.
The Associates of the Boston Public Library is so proud to underwrite the salary lines of Lead Curator of the Arts, held by Kristin Parker, and Aaron Schmidt, Curator of Photography, two of the key players in creating this fantastic exhibit.
October 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The Associates of the Boston Public Library is so proud to underwrite the salary lines of Lead Curator of the Arts, held by Kristin Parker, and Aaron Schmidt, Curator of Photography, two of the key players in creating this fantastic exhibit.
Spanning from the nation’s founding to the present, the exhibit invites viewers to reflect on who was included in the promises of the Revolution—and how people continue to fight to fulfill them today.
October 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Spanning from the nation’s founding to the present, the exhibit invites viewers to reflect on who was included in the promises of the Revolution—and how people continue to fight to fulfill them today.
Today, the @bplboston’s first exhibit in 10 years, ‘Revolution! 250 Years of Art & Activism in Boston’ opens in the Central Library in the McKim Exhibition Hall.
October 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Today, the @bplboston’s first exhibit in 10 years, ‘Revolution! 250 Years of Art & Activism in Boston’ opens in the Central Library in the McKim Exhibition Hall.