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Winter is upon us which means inclement weather can occur at any time as we New Englanders know. Please call 942-5472 to make certain the library is open in stormy weather. |
The Chesley Memorial Library will be closed on Monday, January 20 to observe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day/Civil Rights Day.
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This Month's Calendar of Events
Stop by the library to make this little craft to take home. If you don't have time, simply stop by, grab the items needed to make the craft, and take it home to put together. Keep it for an ornament or a cute little night light.
**while supplies last** STORY TIME
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Sign your kids up to participate in the "1000 Books Before Kindergarten Club"
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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.
You can sign your young children up anytime before they start kindergarten. Start today!
Congratulations Michael!
Knitting with Sharon - TUESDAY & THURSDAY Evenings
from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Knitting group for all who knit, advanced or beginners!
Drop-ins are always welcome or you can call 942 - 5472 to schedule a session at a mutually convenient time.
Sharon is here to help you with your creations!
Drop-ins are always welcome or you can call 942 - 5472 to schedule a session at a mutually convenient time.
Sharon is here to help you with your creations!
LOCAL WRITERS
Local writers — whether beginner, much published, or somewhere in between — are invited to attend free weekly writers’ workshop on Tuesdays from 2:00 to 3:30 pm at the Chesley Memorial Library. Sessions include group critique, writing exercises, and craft discussion. Some participants may want to come early or stay late for some quiet writing time. All genres welcome. Get some writing done this year, learn from each other, and have some fun, too! Local writers will take turns leading the group sessions.
SENIOR CAFÉ
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!
The Chesley Memorial Library Board of Trustees will meet at the library on Friday, January 17, at 10:15 am
The Friends of the Northwood Library will meet at the library on
Monday, January 21 at 6:00 pm
Monday, January 21 at 6:00 pm
Passes offered at the library
Plan a trip to the Boston Museum of Science or the Boston Museum of Fine Arts this winter with one of the passes sponsored by the Friends of the Northwood Libraries.
Passes to the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire in Dover are also available so you can plan a local trip if that is more convenient. Each pass works a little differently so please call us at 942 - 5472 for updated information regarding passes.
Passes to the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire in Dover are also available so you can plan a local trip if that is more convenient. Each pass works a little differently so please call us at 942 - 5472 for updated information regarding passes.
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.
For instructions on how to access HeritageQuest Online from click here.
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.
For instructions on how to access HeritageQuest Online from click here.
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.
Ancestry Library Edition and Heritage Quest are both sponsored by the Friends of the Northwood Libraries.
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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.)
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.)
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THANK YOU FOR A WONDERFUL YEAR AND MAY YOU HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR! |
Thank you to all those who support and participate in helping make the library a great addition to our community!
We've had a lot of wonderful moments at the library with our programs and patrons this year - from our Star Tree to our Dr. Seuss Day celebrations! We're looking forward to another great year here!
To view some of the programs and fun we've had this year, click here.
We've had a lot of wonderful moments at the library with our programs and patrons this year - from our Star Tree to our Dr. Seuss Day celebrations! We're looking forward to another great year here!
To view some of the programs and fun we've had this year, click here.
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The Chesley Memorial Library Staff and Trustees would like to thank our generous library patrons for so many Wish Tree gifts!
The supplies help with library programs and services so we appreciate your support.
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CHALK ART STORY TIME -
Wednesday, January 8
10:30am
Young children joined Miss Annette on Wednesday, January 8 for a special Chalk Art Story Time with local artist Roland Smith!
The story, "The Christmas Tree Who Loved Trains" was read by Miss Annette while Roland Smith used his artistic skills to make a wonderful drawing to go with the story.
The story, "The Christmas Tree Who Loved Trains" was read by Miss Annette while Roland Smith used his artistic skills to make a wonderful drawing to go with the story.
AARON RISI, AUTHOR
"MOOSE WITH A UKE" IS BACK!!!
Saturday, January 4
2:00 PM at the
Chesley Memorial Library
We had a nice attendance for our author, Aaron Risi. Attendees heard the story of Monty the Moose and his adventure in a harmony Grove! To see a clip of his performance from his visit, please click here.
They also heard live ukulele music, lessons on the ukulele, and a "How to Draw Monty the Moose" demonstration.
Aaron Risi is a classically trained, award winning artist, influenced by surrealism. Aaron creates warm emotional connections through his art and music. His art takes you on a creative adventure and always has an engaging message.
He has developed art for authors, musicians, and non-profit organizations. Aaron lives in Dover, NH.
They also heard live ukulele music, lessons on the ukulele, and a "How to Draw Monty the Moose" demonstration.
Aaron Risi is a classically trained, award winning artist, influenced by surrealism. Aaron creates warm emotional connections through his art and music. His art takes you on a creative adventure and always has an engaging message.
He has developed art for authors, musicians, and non-profit organizations. Aaron lives in Dover, NH.
2019 Ladybug Picture Book Award Winner has been announced! |
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To see a list of all the 2019 nominated books, please click here.
Can I Be Your Dog?
by Troy Cummings
Amazon Summary: "This picture book shares the tale of Arfy, a homeless mutt who lives in a box in an alley. Arfy writes to every person on Butternut Street about what a great pet he'd make. His letters to prospective owners share that he's house broken! He has his own squeaky bone! He can learn to live with cats! But, no one wants him. Won't anyone open their heart--and home--to a lonesome dog? Readers will be happily surprised to learn just who steps up to adopt Arfy.
Troy Cummings's hilarious and touching story is a perfect gift for a child wanting a dog, and for pet adoption advocates. It also showcases many different styles of letter writing, making it appealing to parents and teachers looking to teach the lost art of written communication."
Troy Cummings's hilarious and touching story is a perfect gift for a child wanting a dog, and for pet adoption advocates. It also showcases many different styles of letter writing, making it appealing to parents and teachers looking to teach the lost art of written communication."
Afternoon Book Club
The Afternoon Book Discussion Group will meet Wednesday, February 5 at 2:00 p.m. to discuss, "The Wine Lover's Daughter" by Anne Fadiman.
From Amazon: "In The Wine Lover’s Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines--with all her characteristic wit and feeling--her relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine.An appreciation of wine--along with a plummy upper-crust accent, expensive suits, and an encyclopedic knowledge of Western literature--was an essential element of Clifton Fadiman’s escape from lower-middle-class Brooklyn to swanky Manhattan. But wine was not just a class-vaulting accessory; it was an object of ardent desire. The Wine Lover’s Daughter traces the arc of a man’s infatuation from the glass of cheap Graves he drank in Paris in 1927; through the Château Lafite-Rothschild 1904 he drank to celebrate his eightieth birthday, when he and the bottle were exactly the same age; to the wines that sustained him in his last years, when he was blind but still buoyed, as always, by hedonism.
Wine is the spine of this touching memoir; the life and character of Fadiman’s father, along with her relationship with him and her own less ardent relationship with wine, are the flesh. The Wine Lover’s Daughter is a poignant exploration of love, ambition, class, family, and the pleasures of the palate by one of our finest essayists."
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/
From Amazon: "In The Wine Lover’s Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines--with all her characteristic wit and feeling--her relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine.An appreciation of wine--along with a plummy upper-crust accent, expensive suits, and an encyclopedic knowledge of Western literature--was an essential element of Clifton Fadiman’s escape from lower-middle-class Brooklyn to swanky Manhattan. But wine was not just a class-vaulting accessory; it was an object of ardent desire. The Wine Lover’s Daughter traces the arc of a man’s infatuation from the glass of cheap Graves he drank in Paris in 1927; through the Château Lafite-Rothschild 1904 he drank to celebrate his eightieth birthday, when he and the bottle were exactly the same age; to the wines that sustained him in his last years, when he was blind but still buoyed, as always, by hedonism.
Wine is the spine of this touching memoir; the life and character of Fadiman’s father, along with her relationship with him and her own less ardent relationship with wine, are the flesh. The Wine Lover’s Daughter is a poignant exploration of love, ambition, class, family, and the pleasures of the palate by one of our finest essayists."
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, January 29 at 7:00 p.m. to discuss "The Soloist" by Steve Lopez.
From Amazon: "Journalist Steve Lopez discovered of Nathaniel Ayers, a former classical bass student at Julliard, playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles’s Skid Row. Deeply affected by the beauty of Ayers’s music, Lopez took it upon himself to change the prodigy's life—only to find that their relationship would have a profound change on his own.”
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/
From Amazon: "Journalist Steve Lopez discovered of Nathaniel Ayers, a former classical bass student at Julliard, playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles’s Skid Row. Deeply affected by the beauty of Ayers’s music, Lopez took it upon himself to change the prodigy's life—only to find that their relationship would have a profound change on his own.”
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/
DONUT DAY at the Library!
First Saturday of the Month.
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Homemade, library-baked donuts will be available while supplies last. Homemade/library-baked donuts will be available while supplies last. The library is open from 10am to 1pm on Saturdays so plan to arrive early and enjoy your donut before you check out what the library has to offer.
Notary Services: As a courtesy to our patrons, the library offers free notary service.
It is recommended that patrons seeking notary service call the library prior to their visit to ensure that a notary is available at that time.
It is recommended that patrons seeking notary service call the library prior to their visit to ensure that a notary is available at that time.
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American Flags worn and torn?Bring your flags that are worn, torn, tattered, and battered into the library for proper disposal during library hours. We have a box to place them in and they will get disposed of properly.
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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.
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in 1894
The town has 8 hogs.
The town has 336 cows.
The library collected $98.00 in fines.
learn more
Legos, Magformers and Brainflakes!
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