Forbes Library

Jeff Waltmire

In our quest to visit all Presidential Libraries we took the opportunity to visit President Calvin Coolidge's in Northhampton MA. It is on the second floor of the Forbes Library. Although much smaller than more contemporary to me Presidential libraries like Johnson and Bush, it was a pleasant surprise and informative. It will take an hour if you read and view everything. It was worthwhile stop on our tour.

Kevin

I love the library. The sharing between libraries makes it even better.

Thomas

Absolutely beautiful place. The kids center down stairs in the basement has a huge fish tank with some very big fish in it. My daughter loves it, we can sit there the hole time and just watch the fish swim around. The first floor up stairs from the kids center is a great place for adults, lots of space, if you wantnto kick back and read a book there's plenty of seats and tables to sit at, and they have some great spots way in the back if you want to be alone with you book or computer. They have computer free to use with a library card and they even have free Ansestory.com if you want to look up your family's past, absolutely amazing to find pictures of my great grandparents I've never seen before. And then on top of all this there's a amazing Presidential library and museum for our 30th President of the United states of America, Mr. Calvin Coolidge, its definitely a place to visit, they have artifacts and very important memorabilia from his presidency. I was blown away when I seen what they have there. It was a check on my bucket list of things to do after my first visit there. Please visit this place, it's a good lesson to younger kids.

Char Turner

Fantastic resources available, including rentable Wifi hotspots, board games, and craft magazines. Friendly and helpful staff and beautiful architecture. They've adapted really well to the pandemic and are definitely Covid careful.