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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 [...] 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 [...] Join us on Saturday, July 17 at 10 am as award-winning Magician Debbie O’Carroll fishes for books in a delightful, participatory magic show created especially for the summer reading program. Audiences ages 3 to 10 will have great fun as they meet some of the amazing and legendary creatures of children’s literature. They will play [...] The presentation on “The Civilian Conservation Corps in the White Mountain National Forest” scheduled for Thursday, July 20 at 7 pm will not take place. Instead, all are invited to meet on Friday, July 23 at 10 am for a trail walk at the Blackberry Crossing Campground on the Kancamagus Highway (Route 112), 6 miles west [...] The library’s a cool place on a hot day. Here’s some of what’s going on: We added a power strip to the reading table for folks to plug in laptops and a new laptop computer for public use. The Art Show is back for July! Stop by during library hours to see a collection of luminous nature photographs by local [...] Reading programs for ages 4 to adult, check out our Summer Reading Programs page for more info. Stop in and sign up soon! Thursday, June 24 at 7 pm in the Chick Room Come celebrate our “We the People” Bookshelf grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities! Madison Library now has a set of books on the theme “A More Perfect Union” for the community to enjoy. Music! Kevin and Michelle Coffey and Natalie Rollins will perform songs from [...] The Skywatch with NH Astronomical Society scheduled for Thursday, June 10, 2010 has been rescheduled to Friday, June 11, when the sky has a better chance of being cloud-free (or mostly cloud-free.) We’ll start indoors with a presentation on using a telescope, then head out to Burke Field to gaze at the sky. Learn all about [...] We’re busy planning programs for summer, and soon we will publish our summer newsletter with events for all ages that will take place from June through August. Specific dates and times can be found here. Some of the programs to look forward to: Sky Watch with the NH Astronomical Society, June 10 (rain date June 11). http://www.flickr.com/photos/oberazzi/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 The Friends of Madison Library invite everyone to a musical program on Thursday, April 29 at 7pm. This New Hampshire Humanities Council program, “Old Time Rules Will Prevail: The Fiddle Contest in New Hampshire and New England,” will be presented by fiddler Adam Boyce. Whether large or small, fiddle contests tried to [...] |
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