Thank you to those who attended the sold-out Bedford Playhouse screening of The Librarians documentary and the Bedford Hills Free Library co-sponsored panel discussion. The film revealed the alarming ways that citizen’s rights are being undermined by organized efforts to ban or challenge books in school and public libraries.
The discussion with director/producer, Kim A Snyder, producer, Maria Cuomo Cole and authors, Barbara Dee and Phil Bildner explored from personal experiences and perspectives, what has become a fight for democracy and first amendment rights in many communities across America.
Join our Free to Read Book Discussions
The Bedford Hills Free Library and Antioch Baptist Church invite you to join Free to Read, an ongoing book reading discussion series. Our shared purpose is to better understand complex issues, explore our personal response to challenged and banned books, develop empathy for others, and discover our own way to protect everyone's freedom to read. To that end, we read and discuss books that have been banned or challenged.
Dates for the 2026 series have been announced: February 15, April 19, June 28, September 27, November 15.
We meet on Sundays at 12:15 pm at the Antioch Baptist Church in Bedford Hills, NY.