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Accommodating Workers with Disabilities: A Local Perspective on Saturday, Feb. 11

On Saturday, February 11, at 1PM, our partner the Attleboro Area Industrial Museum will host an in-person, panel discussion as part of our NEA Big Read: Attleboro set of events. Entitled Accommodating Workers with Disabilities: A Local Perspective, the session will highlight three representatives from local companies and the Attleboro Public Schools who will discuss how they adapt for workers with disabilities. A question-and-answer […]

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NEA Big Read: Attleboro event on Jan. 26: Author Will Dowd

On Thursday, January 26, at 7pm, Boston-based author Will Dowd will present his session Writing in the Dark: A Virtual Writing Workshop. After developing a visual disorder, Dowd was forced to throw out everything he knew about his vocation. With the help of assistive technology, he developed a new writing process, one that transformed the […]

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NEA Big Read Attleboro Author Presentation: “Real” by Carol Cujec and Peyton Goddard

On Thursday, December 8, at 7pm, authors Carol Cujec and Peyton Goddard will be joining us virtually to discuss their middle-grade fiction novel, Real. This fantastic novel was chosen asthe middle-grade companion title to this year’s NEA Big Read title Sitting Pretty: The View fromMy Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig for its messages […]

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Rebekah Taussig virtual talk on November 17!

This Thursday, November 17, at 6pm, we are thrilled to have Rebekah Taussig, author of Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body, provide a virtual talk. Our partners at An Unlikely Story Bookstore will be hosting this talk, where Taussig will discuss her book as well as aspects of her life that influenced […]

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