Events from 2018
OPEN HOUSE - 2018 Director of the Year
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Thank You, Everyone who attended our OPEN HOUSE at the library on Saturday, October 27!
The library had a lot to celebrate this year. Library Director Donna Bunker received an award for being named New Hampshire Librarian of the Year for 2018. The outpouring of support for Donna was awesome. It was such a pleasure to spend some special moments with patrons new and old.
Several of our 1000 Book Readers attended which warmed our hearts, they grow so fast! The 1000 Books before kindergarten is a great program helping these young folks gain a solid footing in the pursuit of literacy.
The library had a lot to celebrate this year. Library Director Donna Bunker received an award for being named New Hampshire Librarian of the Year for 2018. The outpouring of support for Donna was awesome. It was such a pleasure to spend some special moments with patrons new and old.
Several of our 1000 Book Readers attended which warmed our hearts, they grow so fast! The 1000 Books before kindergarten is a great program helping these young folks gain a solid footing in the pursuit of literacy.
Ukulele Workshop...
UKULELE BEGINNERS
“Sing-n-Strum” at the library on Thursday, October 11, from 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Sing & Strum...
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Bonita Hibbard and her ukulele students held a “Sing-n-Strum” at the library on Thursday, October 11, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Everyone enjoyed this event.
Boni is a member of Silver Strummers in Dover, Southern NH Ukulele Group (SNHUG), and Tampa Bay Ukulele Society (TBUS) in Florida. If you like ukulele music and you like to sing, plan to join us for this free event. |
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All About Mason Bees - Sept 19 at 6 pm
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Master Gardener Ruth Droescher from the UNH Extension’s Speakers Bureau presented a fascinating program about mason bees at the Chesley Memorial Library last month. Mason bees are native to the United States and take less money, space, and time to raise than honeybees. If you have a wall, fence, or tree that faces south, you can raise mason bees! They are more effective pollinators than honeybees and they are not aggressive. Male mason bees do not have stingers and stings from female mason bees are very rare and feel more like a mosquito bite than a bee sting. If you missed the program but would like more information, the library has the book “Mason Bee Revolution: How the Hardest Working Bee Can Save the World One Backyard At a Time” by Dave Hunter available to check out.
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IN MEMORY OF MEG MCGOLDRICK
The Chesley Memorial Trustees and staff worked with Meg for several years as she improved our front door garden. She and her husband, Ted, spent many hours in the front garden and in advising us on our children's gardens. Meg kept Honey Bees at her home and loved her Northwood home and its beautiful gardens. We recently learned about Mason Bees and thought they would be a wonderful addition to our library yard in memory of our dear Library friend, Meg McGoldrick.
The Mason Bee is known as a gentle bee that lives a solitary life. The bees are native to our area and are known for their cohabitation with humans. They reside in tubes of wood and pack their eggs in a special nutritious mud that sustains their young. The Mason Bee is considered the hardest working bee as they simply pollinate and do not produce honey or a hive. Thus, we will have more food with their assistance with no fear of stinging. We have added a book to our Library on the Mason Bees (Mason Bee Revolution: How the Hardest Working Bee Can Save the World One Backyard at a Time by Dave Hunter and Jill Lightner) should you wish to consider them for your home as well. |
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Rebecca led off with her yankee yarns and Joel added spice to her repertoire with stories about beans, cuttin cheese and ladies hats from Calef's Country Store days. Cordwood's notes were clear, clean and crisp. They strummed, picked and plucked their guitars, banjos and washboard to some really fun bluegrass. The crowd loved it all clapping so loudly that the noise resounded off the old masonic halls walls. Great music and commentary filled the room for over 2 hours. It was a night to remember.
The Chesley Memorial Library and the Friends of the Northwood Libraries sponsored "Humor & Harmony” at the Masonic Hall on Route 4 in Northwood on Saturday, May 19, from 7:00-9:00 p.m. ----------------------------------------------- Cordwood is a bluegrass and folk quartet made up of instrumental, vocal, and recording artists from Northwood, Durham, and Deerfield. This is not your local neighborhood hobby band. They are a fine group of seasoned New England musicians. Each can hold his or her own at field picking or a back stage jam, and yet, as a band, they present a highly polished on-stage performance. All four members of Cordwood are storytellers and songwriters, creating original material for instrumentalists who can sing and harmonize, sometimes taking the lead vocal, other times hanging back and lending two, three, or even four part harmonies to a song. Cordwood provides a unique sound to both originals and the covers they perform. Their tunes remain heartfelt and down-home. The band’s material is a mixture of traditional bluegrass, folk, and swing. Cordwood is Wini Scovill Young on banjo and guitar, Walt Kutylowski on bass, Al Pratt on guitar, and Bob Young on mandolin, names you may remember from Big Chicken, The Deerfield Coffeehouse Band, and Fat Hands. |
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TICK TALK was well worth attending
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The New Hampshire Division of Public Health services provided an informational presentation on tickborne diseases. The presentation covered topics including: the signs and symptoms of tickborne diseases that cause illness in New Hampshire; the epidemiology and distribution of tickborne diseases in New Hampshire and throughout the United States; steps to take to prevent tick bites and transmission of tickborne diseases; and proper tick removal and disposal.
For more information: https://tickfreenh.org/ and http://tickencounter.org/ Here are two of the informational pieces provided by our speaker.
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