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Let us know if you’re interested or would like a more detailed description.
- Madison Library Preservation Project—someone with good word processing skills to type text of Alice Ward’s Town Columns into an electronic document.
- Sign for Chick Room—woodworker interested in designing and crafting a simple, small, weather-resistant sign to hang outside the Chick Room meeting room on the lower level of the library.
- Afterschool program helpers—help with this weekly program for elementary school-age children. Must permit us to do a background check.
- Middle School Homework and Game Club—Two adult volunteers need to coordinate a weekly afterschool program for middle schoolers. Good resume builder! Must permit us to do a background check.
- Service desk volunteer, every other Friday afternoon—someone with patience and good customer service and computer skills.
Just added, some new releases, some new to the collection:
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: live action film based on popular books by Jeff Kinney
- The Godfather and The Godfather: Part Two: remastered classic crime dramas
- The Last Song: based on Nicholas Sparks’ book, with Miley Cyrus and Greg Kinnear
- Orlando: 1992 film adapted from Virginia Woolf’s book, with Tilda Swinton and Billy Zane
- Temple Grandin: HBO film biography of well-known animal behavioral scientist who is autistic, with Clare Danes
- Your Life, Your Money: Empowering Young Adults to Get Their Money Right: Financial advice, real-life stories
 Image from Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Join us on Tuesday, August 24 at 6 pm for a community potluck and discussion. We’ll use Jean Fritz’s biography of President James Madison, “The Great Little Madison,” as a starting point as we talk about our town’s namesake and why our town’s founders chose to honor this Founding Father when the town was incorporated in 1852. Fritz’s book, a “brisk, highly accessible biography” (Publishers Weekly), is a good read for both children and adults.
Copies of the book are available to borrow at the library, but feel free to come to the potluck discussion whether or not you’ve read the book. Bring a dish to share, we’ll provide cold beverages.
Here are some resources about James Madison for further reading:
Library of Congress Web Guide: James Madison
Books available at the Madison Library:
- The Federalist Papers
- James Madison: Creating the American Constitution by Neal Riemer
- Founding Brothers and American Creation by Joseph J. Ellis
- Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America by Jack Rakove
 Today the winners of the Old Home Week Photo Contest and Show–open from Monday, August 9 through Saturday, August 14, 2010–were announced. The judges, Martha and Hank Benesh from the North Country Camera Club, awarded prizes to:
- First Place: “Bathing Branch” by Edie Simpson
- Second Place: “Cooks Pond Returning” by Marty Risch
- Third Place: “Sunrise over Silver Lake at Nichols Beach” by Clifford Graves
- Honorable Mention: “Pink” by Minnie Brown, age 9
The People’s Choice Award, for the photograph that received most votes from people attending the show during Old Home Week, went to “Pink” by Minnie Brown, with 8 votes out of 66.
Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all of the photographers who entered the contest.
Thanks also to:
- Martha and Hank Benesh for taking on the tough task of judging
- Spectrum Photo for prize donations
- Old Home Week Committee for prize donation
- Noreen Downs of Madison TV for recording awards ceremony
- Everyone who visited the show and voted
 Thirty-one readers took part in our “Make a Splash–READ” summer reading program. Children, teens, and adults together read 656 books, 13% more books than last year with fewer readers.
We celebrated in true “make a splash” fashion at the Old Home Week beach party on Sunday, August 8. Prizes were awarded to each child, teen, and adult who completed the program, special prizes were awarded to high achievers, and then we all enjoyed a fabulous cake made by Jennifer Sias, one of our adult summer readers. At least 60 people (we stopped counting) enjoyed a piece of the book-shaped yellow and chocolate cake complete with a reading moose floating in a marshmallow fondant inner tube.
We thank everyone who took part in our summer reading program, and congratulate the following readers:
Read to me category: Hunter Sias, Aiden Parsons, Maisie Brown (1st place with 88 books read), Ashley Garside, Catherine Shackford, and Kendyl Shackford
Read along and alone: Ava Jarell, Ella Dunker-Bendigo, Molly Arnold, Emma Arnold, Purlin Twigg-Smith, Madison Garside (1st place with 43 books read), Sierra Parsons
Read solo: Grace Jarell, Patrick Mulhern, Mark Mulhern, Eli Dunker-Bendigo, Kaeli Twigg-Smith, Minnie Brown, Tait Dickinson, and Gabby Ames (1st place with 32 books read)
Teens and adults: Kim Hamilton (1st in teen category with 9 books read), Marcie Shackford, Susan Dunker-Bendigo, Deb Parsons, Hazel Varella (2nd in adult category with 15 books), Betsy Hatton Wood, Lynn Brown (3rd in adult category with 13 books), Jennifer Sias, Anne Roser, and Becca Frazel (1st in adult category with 99 books).
All of the prizes were donated by the following generous local businesses; be sure to give them a “thank you” when you visit them: Yankee Smokehouse, Story Land, White Lake Speedway, Pirate’s Cove Adventure Golf, Conway Scenic Railroad, Settlers’ Green Outlet Village, White Mountain Hotel & Resort, Portland Sea Dogs, and the New Hampshire Fisher Cats.
The Friends of Madison Library have been busy getting ready for this year’s book sale, to be held (as always) on the first Saturday of Old Home Week, this year on August 7, from 9 am to 1 pm in the library’s Chick Room. Thanks to everyone who donated books for the sale. We are all set for this year’s sale and will accept no more donations to allow adequate time to finish sorting and to set up the sale. Please consider saving book donations for next year’s sale, we collect books throughout the year.
The Friends organize the books by category, making browsing a pleasure. You’ll find books for children and teens, books for fiction, mystery, thriller, and romance readers, nonfiction including travel and adventure, crafts, self-help, spirituality and religion, history, and biography. This year, there is a great selection of cookbooks and hardcover fiction (often much easier on the eyes than paperbacks).
All this, bargain prices, and an air-conditioned, indoor location make this a must-attend event for the first day of Madison’s Old Home Week. See you there!
Each summer, it seems there’s a book that everyone wants to read at the same time, and (no surprise to most of you) this summer’s is Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, followed (naturally) by the second and third in the series. So while you’re waiting for your name to move up the reserve list, may we direct you to some alternate read-alike titles (when this was posted, they were all on the shelf):
Scandinavian thrillers and mysteries:
- The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell
- What Is Mine and What Never Happens by Anne Holt
Note: Never one to ignore a trend, James Patterson has set his next book (coauthored with Swedish crime writer Liza Marklund) in Stockholm. Look for this one, Postcard Killers, in August.
Thrillers with tangled plots:
- Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
- Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
- Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
- The Poet by Michael Connelly
This year marks our third annual Photo Contest and Show held during Madison’s Old Home Week. The theme for this year’s contest is “water,” to go along with our “Make a Splash” Summer Reading Program. Photographers are invited to submit photographs taken in Madison that reflect this year’s theme by the entry deadline, Friday, August 6 at 6 pm.
The Photo Show will be open in the Chick Room during library hours from Monday, August 9 through Saturday, August 14. Prizes will be announced on Friday, August 13 at 6 pm, just before the Old Home Week Mardi Gras Parade gets underway. Prizes for the show include first, second, and third prizes determined by judges from the North Country Camera Club, and a People’s Choice Award based on votes by people attending the show.
Photograph entries should be matted and/or framed and wired for hanging. Hinged easel backs should be removed from backs of frames. Entry forms and guidelines can be picked up at the Madison Library or downloaded from the library’s website, see link on the home page.
This summer, SYNC has been offering two free audio downloads a week. Titles are geared for teen listeners, but adults will also enjoy the selections. Each week a current YA (young adult) title is paired with a related classic. SYNC downloads use the same OverDrive Media Console software as the NH Downloadable Books. Next week’s titles are dystopian classic The Lottery by Shirley Jackson paired with current bestseller Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
See the video!
With demand for videos on DVD high and for VHS dwindling, we’re working on building our DVD backlist of older, favorite movies. Besides being a budget-stretcher, we now have some tried-and-true, good-to-watch-more-than-once films.
First, the new releases:
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
For the backlist (these are not shelved with new movies):
- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (the 1970s version with Gene Wilder)
- 50 First Dates
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Beetlejuice
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Dirty Harry
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