The Vermont Winter Reading Challenge is open now through the end of February! The new year is a time for reflection and reinvigoration. What better way to do that than to cozy up with inspiring books this winter? The challenge is open to readers of all ages. Participants can read books of their choosing, log minutes, and earn digital badges. Register on the Vermont Department of Libraries’ Beanstack platform by clicking here. Please select Latham Library as your library of choice when registering. Five participants will be selected to win a prize at the end of the challenge!
Get together with fellow knitters over Zoom to knit and talk! All experience levels welcome. Please email librarians@thetfordlibrary.org for the Zoom link.
Preschool Storytime using Zoom, an online platform where kids will be able to see and hear me read books and I will be able to see and hear them too!
The first Virtual Storytime will be Friday, March 27, at 11:00. It will last about 45 minutes and include books and songs.
If you’d like to participate, please send an email to librarians@thetfordlibrary.org and you will be sent a Zoom invite and instructions.
Join us as we launch Thetford poet Elisabeth Horan’s latest book, “Just To the Right of the Stove”, being released on February 12 by Twist in Time Press of Philadelphia. Elisabeth’s new collection of poetry is an ode to Sylvia Plath. It is “a deep, sometimes dark, always sincere imaginary dialogue with her much lauded peer, is proof that one’s suffering can be anesthetised with art. It is a collection that could only be written from a survivor’s perspective; deeply introspective and brutally honest, Horan leaves no layers left unpeeled…Just to the Right of the Stove captures the voice of a long dead literary hero, captures the voice of survivors worldwide, and captures the voice of a poet at the peak of her powers.”
To register for this event please email librarians@thetfordlibrary.org
The Latham Seed Saving Library was launched in the fall of 2020, so this is our first growing season! That means that we don’t yet have a large selection of seeds to share. Over the coming years, with help from you and others, we will be able to build our library’s stock and diversity. If you are successful in your gardening and seed saving and can return seeds to the library to pass on to future gardeners, you will be helping us to fulfill our goal of building a growing, thriving community seed library. For more info visit the Seed Library page on this website.
Available Seeds Spring 2021 (all grown in Thetford):
Anise Hyssop
Bean-“Kentucky Wonder” Pole
Bean-“Norma” Pole
Black-eyed Susan
Buckwheat
Calendula
Cosmos-“Tango”
Dill
Decorative Corn
Gerber Daisy
Foxtail Millet
Sunflower
You may request one packet of each type of seed by emailing Librarians@thetfordlibrary.org . We are currently using curbside service out of the box on the front porch of Latham Library for seed pickup.
Book club for 7-9 year olds. Discussion of “May B” by Caroline Rose Starr. Books are now available to borrow. All are welcome!
Get together with fellow knitters over Zoom to knit and talk! All experience levels welcome. Please email librarians@thetfordlibrary.org for the Zoom link.
Preschool Storytime using Zoom, an online platform where kids will be able to see and hear me read books and I will be able to see and hear them too!
The first Virtual Storytime will be Friday, March 27, at 11:00. It will last about 45 minutes and include books and songs.
If you’d like to participate, please send an email to librarians@thetfordlibrary.org and you will be sent a Zoom invite and instructions.
This month the New Yorker Articles group will discuss the work of James Baldwin (1924 – 1987), an American writer, poet, social critic, and activist. We will focus on his work for the civil rights movement. Using an essay he wrote in 1962 for the New Yorker “Letter From a Region of My Mind,” the movie, “I Am Not Your Negro,” and a podcast from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, “A Baldwin Revival: In Good Times and Bad,” we will explore how his work remains relevant and alive today. Please join us and take part in a conversation that motivates and inspires us to improve the human condition both individually and collectively.
For access to all materials and to register for the group discussion, please email NYarticles.Latham@gmail.com
Get together with fellow knitters over Zoom to knit and talk! All experience levels welcome. Please email librarians@thetfordlibrary.org for the Zoom link.