EVENTS

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2020 EVENTS

My Team Is Going To WIN!

Summer Reading Program Parties -
​Wednesday, July 31st
​from 10am - 12pm and from 4 - 6pm!

​Find out who did the most reading this summer. Our Reading Champs to be announced at the parties.
​Color tiles will be out to play with too.
Join us to celebrate.

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Water Rockets with 
Friends of the Library
Saturday July 27 at 10:30am at the BEAN HOLE BASH 

The Friends of the Library will be “blasting off” at the Bean Hole Bash this summer!  Join Rick Alleva, Ed.D., UNH Cooperative Extension, on Saturday, July 27, at 10:30 a.m. Build and launch a water powered rocket using a recycled two-liter bottle, a few household supplies, and a bike pump. Make the rocket your own with a cool design. Learn why some designs soar higher than others. Come have fun…up, up & away!

All ages welcome and families should plan to work as a team since children younger than 9 need an adult to help with the project. Plan to spend at least an hour to an hour and a half and please bring your own empty, clean two-liter bottles.

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Live NASA Webcast Event
Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11's Historic Moon Landing
Monday, July 15 4:00pm - 5:00pm (webcast starts at 4:00pm)

Did you miss the webcast viewing at the library? You can still watch it.

Simply click  here.  (Note: Video actually starts around the 12:45 mark)

Or you can even watch the original NASA footage of the launch by clicking here.

"It is hard to overstate the impact of Apollo 11’s first landing on the Moon. It was humanity’s first step onto another world, an exciting climax to the space race, and the world’s largest rocket at the time. It was a classic story of American ingenuity — leaving our home planet a mere one hundred years after connecting the transcontinental railroad, and only sixty-six years after the Wright Brothers’ first powered flight. Commander Neil Armstrong spoke eloquently about what an honor it was for him and fellow crew members, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, to accomplish president Kennedy’s goal of reaching the Moon, supported by the combined efforts of four hundred thousand Americans, by the year 1969. This July 20th, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of that accomplishment. What was the sequence of this incredible mission? Where on the Moon did they land? And how did they return safely to Earth? Join us for a guided recreation of Apollo 11’s journey to see how this mission was executed by crew members and mission control in Houston.
Featured Presenter:
Carter Emmart Dr. Carter Emmart is the Director of Astrovisualization at the American Museum of Natural History, where he directs the award winning space show productions based in data visualization that play in the Hayden Planetarium, and around the world. Since 1998 he has overseen the development of the interactive Digital Universe 3D Atlas. Starting in 2002, he began a collaboration with Sweden’s Linkoping University hosting a series of masters thesis projects that lead to the NASA supported freely available OpenSpace software at openspaceproject.com. Carter’s career began as a space artist, with an academic background in astronomy and geophysics, and comes from a family tradition in the arts." - Starnet

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Star Party 
Thursday, July 11 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Lily gets directions from Kelly on her origami craft.

Patrons came by the library and saw the night sky on a projection screen with a practice telescope. Patrons were able to come in during that time and look for items in the night sky with family and friends before the sun goes down. Planets, constellations, stars will be marked out for you to try and find on the projector images with a low magnifying telescope.

We also had a volunteer, Kelly, come in and teach how to make origami stars. Children and adults got to try their hand at making various origami stars as well as a few other items as well.

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