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This Month's Calendar of Events
"Universe of Stories"
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Help us name this being!
Name our latest addition to the "Universe of Stories" Summer Reading Program when you register for the program. The winning name will be announced on July 3, the first official day of the program.
ONE-ON-ONE GENEALOGY SESSIONS
Discover your ancestors with Ancestry Library Edition and HeritageQuest Online! Ancestry Library Edition is available at the Chesley Memorial Library; HeritageQuest Online can be used at the library and at home.
Visit our web site (chesleylib.com) for instructions on how to access HeritageQuest Online from home. If you need help navigating the genealogy databases, join local amateur genealogist Nancy Borman for FREE one-on-one genealogy sessions (beginning-level instruction) using Ancestry Library Edition, HeritageQuest, and other sources. Please email Nancy at nancy.genealogy7@gmail.com to schedule your one-hour session at a mutually convenient time. Sessions will be held at the Chesley Memorial Library. If you do not have email, call us at 942-5472 and we will forward your contact information to Nancy. Ancestry Library Edition and Heritage Quest are both sponsored by the Friends of the Northwood Libraries.
Availability of ancestry.com and HeritageQuest is provided by the Friends of the Library.
Heritage Quest is also available for you to use from home or in the library. A password is required to access this website. Call us at 603-942-5472 for the required password. (Available to library patrons in good standing.) 
SENIOR CAFÉSummer is almost here and the air conditioning will be on if it's hot, so get together with your friends and neighbors at the Chesley Memorial Library!
The Senior Café meets every Monday from 1:00-2:30 pm. so drop by to enjoy some delicious treats and a cup of tea or coffee while you socialize. You might even want to come early or stay later to check out the library’s books, movies, or magazines! Afternoon Book ClubThe Afternoon Book Discussion Group will meet at the Chesley Memorial Library on Wednesday, August 7, at 2:00 p.m. to discuss “The Swerve" by Stephen Greenblatt.
From Amazon: "One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius―a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions." Books that we have read for our afternoon book group over the last 10 years are listed on Pinterest! Books we have read for our afternoon group: pinterest.com/chesleylibrary/afternoon-book-discussion/ Evening Book Club The Evening Book Discussion Group will meet on Wednesday, June 26, at Blaisdell Memorial Library at 7:00pm to discuss "Unsheltered" by Barbara Kingsolver.
From Amazon: “How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law and an exasperating, free-spirited daughter. When the family’s one success story, an Ivy-educated son, is uprooted by tragedy he seems likely to join them, with dark complications of his own. In another time, a troubled husband and public servant asks, How can a man tell the truth, and be reviled for it? A science teacher with a passion for honest investigation, Thatcher Greenwood finds himself under siege: his employer forbids him to speak of the exciting work just published by Charles Darwin. His young bride and social-climbing mother-in-law bristle at the risk of scandal, and dismiss his worries that their elegant house is unsound. In a village ostensibly founded as a benevolent Utopia, Thatcher wants only to honor his duties, but his friendships with a woman scientist and a renegade newspaper editor threaten to draw him into a vendetta with the town’s powerful men. Unsheltered is the compulsively readable story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum in Vineland, New Jersey, navigating what seems to be the end of the world as they know it. With history as their tantalizing canvas, these characters paint a startlingly relevant portrait of life in precarious times when the foundations of the past have failed to prepare us for the future." Books that we have read for our evening book group over the last 10 years are listed on Pinterest! Books we have read for evening group: pinterest.com/chesleylibrary/evening-book-discussion/ Sign your kids up to participate in the "1000 Books Before Kindergarten Club"
Give your child the tools to become a successful reader! Join the “1000 Books Club” sponsored by the Chesley Memorial Library with help from Northwood School teachers. The program is open to any child from birth to the start of kindergarten. Reading aloud to children at birth strengthens their language skills and builds their vocabulary – two important tools for learning to read when they enter kindergarten. Stop by the Chesley Memorial Library to register your child, learn more about the program, and receive a free canvas book bag for registering.
Our 1000 Books before kindergarten readers in 2019!
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Congratulations Eleanor
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Congratulations George and Lucy
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Legos, Magformers and Brainflakes!
Available for use anytime the library is open, ask a Librarian to get them for you.
Northwood Fun Facts
Facts garnered from olde official Northwood Town Reports
For example...
in 1894
The town has 8 hogs.
The town has 336 cows.
The library collected $98.00 in fines. learn more
in 1894
The town has 8 hogs.
The town has 336 cows.
The library collected $98.00 in fines. learn more