If you’ve spent a summer in Thetford, chances are you have fond memories of days spent at the beautiful Treasure Island beach.
Perhaps you learned to swim there?
Or perhaps you’ve wondered how Thetford came to own a park located in West Fairlee?
Come enjoy some light refreshments and learn about the history of this gem of a park. Wanda Vaughn’s timeline of park history will be presented, which she researched and shared with town record keepers in 2016. Jane Chambers will share photographs and video of her parents, Don and El Wilson, who lived in the caretaker’s cottage and oversaw operations for many years.
This free event is proudly sponsored by the Peabody Library and the Treasure Island Committee. All ages welcome.
NH-based cartoonist, musician, and educator Marek Bennett leads discovery-based Comics Workshops for all ages throughout New England and the world beyond! His comics work includes the graphic novel series, The Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, as well as drawing, translating, & editing for The Most Costly Journey (2021) with the bilingual El Viaje Project. In September 2022, both books were featured at the National Book Festival in Washington DC.
Marek is the recipient of the 2021 New Hampshire Governor’s Arts Award for Art Education.
Please register by emailing librarian@thetfordlibrary.org so we have enough supplies on hand.
Best for ages 9 and up. This event is part of the “Adventure Begins at Your Library” summer reading program.
Latham Library and the Thetford Elder Network invite you to the lower level Community Room for a free Senior Movie Morning.
Large screen presentation, warm and well-ventilated room. Meet some neighbors to enjoy a good movie, to chat and to laugh! No registration, just come!
This month’s title: A Passage to India
Need a ride? TEN may be able to help! Call (802-785-4361) or email librarian@thetfordlibrary.org and we’ll put you in touch.
Games, prizes, food, and music. All carnival games and treats cost one penny each! There will also be oldest and ugliest penny contests, a raffle for prizes, and a children’s book sale. Bring your pennies!
If you have been participating in this year’s summer reading program please hand in your reading logs to Latham Library by the end of the day on Monday, August 19. Children who hand in a reading log with at least five books filled out will receive a certificate and prize at our Adventure Begins at Your Library Finale Party. Location: outside in the Latham Library back yard (rain location: Latham Library Community Room). If you can’t make it to the party, stop into the Library to pick up your prize anytime we are open, or you can arrange for curbside pickup.
Drop-in chess club at Peabody Library, all ages welcome!
Mr. Moore is an experienced math teacher and children’s bookseller who has played chess with kids as young as 4 (adults are welcome to play too). Beginners come and learn, experienced players join a game, there’s fun for all.
For extra fun, Mr. Moore also has math games for kids of all ages.
Latham Library and the Thetford Elder Network invite you to the lower level Community Room for a free Senior Movie Morning.
Large screen presentation, warm and well-ventilated room. Meet some neighbors to enjoy a good movie, to chat and to laugh! No registration, just come!
This month’s title: My Fair Lady
Need a ride? TEN may be able to help! Call (802-785-4361) or email librarian@thetfordlibrary.org and we’ll put you in touch.
Loon Stories: Through the Lens of the Lake Fairlee LoonCam
Whether you are a loon fanatic or are just curious about this interesting summer visitor, join us for this free program!
Eric Hanson, a loon biologist, will present his talk, “The Common Loon: Stories About a Loon’s Life and Their Conservation”. Eric has lead the Vermont Loon Conservation Project for over 25 years, a program of the Vermont Center for Ecostudies (VCE) and the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department.
Eric will discuss the amazing recovery of loons in Vermont over the past 30 years, the threats that they face, and the conservation actions that have brought them back. He’ll also narrate a 24-minute video compilation of highlights from the 2024 season showing seldom-seen loon behavior and exploring their fascinating natural history, from territorial takeovers to visual and verbal communication.
Local residents Sean Brown and Doug Tifft will briefly share an overview of the Lake Fairlee loon nesting raft and the second year of the Lake Fairlee LoonCam and its worldwide audience. Sean will give an insider’s view of setting up and running the first and only loon camera in Vermont and his plans for the future. Fairlee resident Doug Tifft, who stewards the loon nesting raft at the northern end of Lake Fairlee, will summarize the successful ninth season which resulted in yet another loon chick.
There will be refreshments and plenty of time for questions afterwards. This event is hosted by Latham Library and sponsored by the Lake Fairlee Association and the Vermont Center for EcoStudies.
Come play one of our board games or bring your own! All ages are welcome. Pizza will be served. If you would like pizza, please RSVP by 3:00 pm on the day of the event to librarian@thetfordlibrary.org
We will be discussing A Memoir Of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel
In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. “Ink is a generative fluid,” she explains. “If you don’t mean your words to breed consequences, don’t write at all.”
A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this writing over four decades. From her unusual childhood to her all-consuming interest in Thomas Cromwell that grew into the Wolf Hall trilogy, A Memoir of My Former Self reveals the shape of Hilary Mantel’s life in her own luminous words, through “messages from people I used to be.” Filled with her singular wit and wisdom, it is essential reading from one of our greatest writers.
The book may be obtained from your local library, via interlibrary loan, possibly as an audio or e-book via ListenUp Vermont or in New Hampshire, New Hampshire Downloadable Books. Users need only get a barcode number from their local library to use the services. Or you can obtain the book from your favorite local bookseller, or via www.bookfinder.com, the aggregator site for booksellers both large and small from all over the world, and for books both new and secondhand.
All are welcome and we look forward to seeing you.
-E D M Landman MD