Library News
Durham, Lee and Madbury Public Libraries Present:
Celebrate the Granite State!
A series of programs to highlight some of the people, places and unique characteristics that make New Hampshire great!
THE EVENTS
Sugaring in NH: A Small Town Operation at it's Finest
Tuesday, March 18 at 7 p.m.
Duane Hyde and Ed Valena have been making maple syrup in downtown Durham for four seasons together and can't wait for the sugaring season to begin. In this informal get-together, Duane and Ed will share some of their successes and failures, and hopefully will get you fired up for your own backyard operation. Just think of it as ice fishing without the bait and a little more heat! Hope to see you there and don't forget to bring your funny bone!
Location: Durham Public Library
The Best Plants for NH Gardens and Landscapes
Wednesday, March 26 at 7 p.m.
Come and learn how to choose annuals, perennials, shrubs and small trees to thrive in your garden. This program will be presented by a UNH Cooperative Extension Professor and Specialist.
Location: Lee Public Library
Live Free or Die: New Hampshire Dialects Remain Distinct
Thursday, April 3 at 7 p.m.
"Live Free or Die: NH Dialects Remain Distinct", presented by Associate Professor Naomi Nagy, UNH. Naomi will present research conducted by herself and her students on dialect variation in New England, with a special focus on New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
Location: Mast Way School, Lee, NH
Planning, Planting and Maintaining a Successful Organic Herbal Garden
Monday, April 7 at 6:45 p.m.
Wendy Snow Fogg, Founder, Director, and Senior Herbalist of Misty Meadows Herbal Center, will provide advice for planning, planting and maintaining a successful organic herbal garden and will cover everything from choosing the garden plot site to planting herbs alongside their botanical friends.
Location: Madbury Public Library
The War Tapes: Film Screening
Tuesday, April 22 at 6:45 p.m.
A showing of The War Tapes filmed by three New Hampshire National Guardsmen during their one-year deployment to Iraq. Deborah Scranton edited 800 hours of footage to create this 96 minute film.
Location: Madbury Town Hall
Door Yard Visits
Wednesday, April 23 at 7 p.m.
Poet, humorist and storyteller Neil English will take us to the time in which we greeted our neighbors and exchanged information in face-to-face "Dooryard Visits." His poems (inspired by everyday surroundings and events) will help us to "re-experience how we interact with our neighbors and loved ones." This is a great way to celebrate poetry month!
Neil English is VP of the Poetry Society of NH. His work has been published in several anthologies, including Portsmouth Unabridged: New Poems for an Old City, Entelechy International:A Journal of Contemporary Ideas, Images from Ruin, The Other Side of Sorrow and the 2008 Poets Guide to NH.
Location: Madbury Public Library
A History of Tourism in the North Country
Tuesday, April 29 at 7 p.m.
Carl Lindblade, full time lecturer at the UNH Department of Hospitality, will bring his 30 years of experience as a hotelier, amateur historian and collector of tall tales true, tall and tickling to the Durham Public Library for a program on the history of tourism in NH. Over the years he has collected many stories about the state, some true, some parables, and some that don't fit either criteria...they're just funny!
Carl has met most of the presidential candidates from Reagan to Dole to Clinton and he will share his personal stories about the times they visited the hotel he ran.
Great NH lore from a great NH hotelier!
Location: Durham Public Library
Women and Tavernkeeping
Thursday, May 1 at 7 p.m.
"A Woman Keeps Good Orders: Women, Tavernkeeping and Public Approval," presented by Marcia Schmidt Blaine, Associate Professor of History at Plymouth State University. Blaine looks at the life of Ann Jose Harvey, who became the owner of a prominint Protsmouth, NH tavern as well as the sole guardian of small children upon the death of her husband, in 1736. Harvey ran the increasingly prosperous tavern for twenty years.
Location: Mast Way School, Lee, NH
Wonderful Weeds!
Saturday, June 21, 10:30 to Noon
"Wonderful Weeds! Food and Medicine All Around Us" presented by Wendy Fogg of Misty Meadows Herbal Center. Come and hear how you can use dandelion, plaintain, red respberry leaf, pine neeles and chickweed to nourish your liver, improve digestion, eliminate PMS and clean your home.
Location: Lee Public Library
Overdue Notices
Notices will go out each Friday for items due the previous week. Second notices will be sent for items three weeks overdue and a bill for the replacement cost of the item will be sent either by mail or email when an item is six weeks overdue. We appreciate the prompt return of library materials so that we can make them available to other patrons.
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