History Center-New Operating Hours

The History Center will have new hours beginning, December 15, 2025.
Their hours will be Monday-Friday 9:00 AM- 6:00 PM.
Saturday services will be scheduled by appointment. 

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Program Type:

Book Club

Age Group:

Adult

Program Description

Event Details

This month we are discussing The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau by Kristin Harmel.

Summary: Colette Marceau has been stealing jewels for nearly as long as she can remember, following the centuries-old code of honor instilled in her by her mother Annabel: take only from the cruel and unkind, and give to those in need. Never was their family tradition more important than seven decades earlier, during the Second World War, when Annabel and Colette worked side by side in Paris to fund the French Resistance. But one night in 1942, it all went wrong. Annabel was arrested by the Germans, and Colette's four-year-old sister Liliane disappeared in the chaos of the raid, along with an exquisite diamond bracelet sewn into the hem of her nightgown for safekeeping. Soon after, Annabel was executed, and Liliane's body was found floating in the Seine -- but the bracelet was nowhere to be found. Seventy years later, Colette -- who has 'redistributed' $30 million in jewels over the decades to fund many worthy organizations -- has done her best to put her tragic past behind her, but her life begins to unravel when the long-missing bracelet suddenly turns up in a museum exhibit in Boston.