Lenox Library Hosts Bestselling Novelists

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LENOX, Mass. — The Lenox Library will conclude the 2022-2023 season of its Distinguished Lecture Series on Sunday, April 30, 2023 at 4:00 p.m. with bestselling novelists Aimee Molloy and Jillian Medoff.
 
Join novelists Aimee Molloy and Jillian Medoff in a conversation about fiction, writing, and living a creative life. They'll share how they published their first novels, how they get ideas, and how they know when something is finished.
 
Aimee Molloy is the New York Times best-selling author of two novels, "Goodnight Beautiful" and "The Perfect Mother," which was translated into more than twenty-five languages and has been optioned by HBOMax. She is also the author of several books of non-fiction, including "However Long the Night" and "Rosewater," which was made into a movie written and directed by Jon Stewart. She lives in the Berkshires with her family.
 
Jillian Medoff is the author of "When We Were Bright and Beautiful." She also has written four other novels: "This Could Hurt," "I Couldn't Love You More" (national bestseller), "Good Girls Gone Bad," and "Hunger Point." "Hunger Point" was made into an original cable movie starring Christina Hendricks and Barbara Hershey and directed by Joan Micklin Silver (Lifetime TV, 2003). A former fellow at MacDowell, Blue Mountain Center, VCCA and Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, Medoff has an MFA from New York University.
 
The lecture is free and open to the public and will take place in the main reading room of the Library, located at 18 Main Street, Lenox. Please visit https://lenoxlib.org or the Library's Facebook page for more information.
 

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Ventfort Hall Masonry Repair Project Underway

LENOX, Mass. — Ventfort Hall announced they have reached their funding goal and work has begun on their masonry restoration project through multiple sources.
 
This project will address urgently needed masonry work to rebuild and restore four chimneys on the east and west sides of the roof ridge. The four massive chimneys each contain multiple conjoined fireplace flues and are ornamented with brick corbelling (staggering) and custom profiled bricks for architectural detail.
 
Many of the bricks on the chimneys have lost their mortar and have begun to dislodge and are currently being caught by temporary netting to prevent falling bricks from causing severe harm to the roof or to patrons on the ground. Should a chimney collapse completely, there is not adequate documentation to replicate the ornate brick details and corbelling to recreate the chimneys.
 
The work will entail disassembling each of the four chimneys down to sound underlying material, rebuilding the bricks to match the historic design and detailing, providing new custom brick to replace units that are too deteriorated for re-use, and fabricating and reinstalling the metal chimney caps.
 
Pittsfield masonry contractor H.A. O'Neil was chosen to complete the restoration. They were chosen for their experience working with historic masonry restoration projects and methods. Hill-Engineers, Architects, Planners Inc. is providing oversight for the project. Work began on April 26.
 
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