Coming soon to Peabody: Tech and Textiles! Drop in for low-key technology chats and assistance, hang out and craft. Bring your device, your crochet/knitting/felting project, both or neither. It’s a flexible space for anyone looking for company while they create, or help setting up their new tablet, or just wanting someone to explain what exactly is cryptocurrency…I don’t know all the answers, but I love digging into these topics. We can chat while we knit, click around together, and set you up with further resources. And of course, you can also check out books.
Beginning May 4, (and May the Fourth be with you), Thursdays at Peabody from 1:00-5:00pm.
From 6/27/2023 to 9/26/2023, Latham Memorial Library will host the book discussion series A Hard Look at America. Established by a newspaper publisher and coinciding with the founding of a journalism school at Columbia University, the Pulitzer Prizes have continually recognized excellence in journalism. The books in this series, comprised of Pulitzer-winning reporting and research, dig deep, revealing facts and stories that continue to be relevant years after they were brought to the surface.
All discussions will take place at 7:00 pm in the Reading Room on the main floor of the library, except for the first discussion which will be held at the Peabody Library in Post Mills.
- June 27 AT PEABODY LIBRARY: Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital *At Peabody Library*
- July 25: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, All the President’s Men
- August 29: Edward J. Larson Summer, For the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
- September 26: Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night
These sessions are free, open to the public, and accessible to those with disabilities. Books will be available on loan in advance. For more information, contact Emily Zollo at (802) 785-4361 or librarian@thetfordlibrary.org
Latham Memorial Library: A Hard Look at America is a Vermont Humanities program hosted by Latham Memorial Library. (Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the NEH or Vermont Humanities.)
Do you have a beginning reader in your household? Do they love dogs?
Bring your new reader to Latham Library to read to this loveable and gentle yellow lab/husky, who is a certified therapy dog through Caring Animal Partners. Your child can sign up for a 15 minute time slot to cuddle with and read to Dasher, who will most appreciate it. It would be best to arrive to your appointment with a book already chosen, so as to use the whole time for reading. The librarians are happy to make reading suggestions ahead of time. Please also arrive promptly for your doggie date.
There are four slots available for our first Read with Dasher time on Friday, July 7: 2:00-2:15, 2:20-2:35, 2:40-2:55, and 3:00-3:15. Please email librarian@thetfordlibrary.org to sign up.
If you don’t get a spot this time, don’t worry…there will be more Read with Dasher times this summer. If the program is popular and fills up fast, first preference will be given next time around to new readers who haven’t had a chance yet.
Do you have a beginning reader in your household? Do they love dogs?
Bring your new reader to Latham Library to read to this lovable and gentle yellow lab/husky, who is a certified therapy dog through Caring Animal Partners.
There will be more Read with Dasher times this summer…stay tuned!
Making milled soap is one easy way to incorporate soothing and fragrant herbs into soap. In this hands-on program where you can learn to make unique gifts. Soap
can do more than get you clean, it can smell nice, and even offer some healing properties. Everyone will get the recipes and make some soap to take home. Spots are limited, registration required. Please email librarian@thetfordlibrary.org to sign up. Children younger than 10 should have an adult present.
PLEASE NOTE: If Latham Library is under construction for our wheelchair lift project in late July, this workshop will be moved to the Peabody Library.
From 6/27/2023 to 9/26/2023, Latham Memorial Library will host the book discussion series A Hard Look at America. Established by a newspaper publisher and coinciding with the founding of a journalism school at Columbia University, the Pulitzer Prizes have continually recognized excellence in journalism. The books in this series, comprised of Pulitzer-winning reporting and research, dig deep, revealing facts and stories that continue to be relevant years after they were brought to the surface.
All discussions will take place at 7:00 pm in the Reading Room on the main floor of the library, except for the first discussion which will be held at the Peabody Library in Post Mills.
- June 27 AT PEABODY LIBRARY: Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital *At Peabody Library*
- July 25: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, All the President’s Men PLEASE NOTE: If Latham Library is under construction in late July for our wheelchair lift project, this discussion will be held at the Peabody Library.
- August 29: Edward J. Larson, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
- September 26: Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night
These sessions are free, open to the public, and accessible to those with disabilities. Books will be available on loan in advance. For more information, contact Emily Zollo at (802) 785-4361 or librarian@thetfordlibrary.org
Latham Memorial Library: A Hard Look at America is a Vermont Humanities program hosted by Latham Memorial Library. (Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the NEH or Vermont Humanities.)
The Swing Peepers, a vocal-harmony and multi-instrument duo, perform inventive, earth-friendly and interactive songs and stories. Instruments strummed, swung, and tapped include: guitar, mandolin, violin, harmonica, banjo, ukulele and accordion. Most songs and stories are participatory, and body movement is part of the action!The Swing Peepers draw out the creativity of audiences by having them participate in creating impromptu songs and stories. The Peeps take ideas from the audience and weave them into highly dramatic tall tales. These made-up-on-the-spot rollicking stories are The Swing Peepers’ trademark – watch out for colorful surprises! All are welcome, geared towards kids and families.
PLEASE NOTE: If Latham Library is under construction for our wheelchair lift project in late July, this concert will be moved to the Peabody Library.
Nature isn’t just out in the woods…wildlife is all around us. Meet some of the live animals that live right in your own back yard and learn how we can all be better neighbors. Free and open to the public, all are welcome.
RIPLIAM MENAGERIE!
Two seasoned performers roll into town. Full of pomp and circumstance they proudly present their hard-won collection of oddities, acrobatics, strange creatures, dancing legs, and dang they’ve got it all, but what happens when the objects of their menagerie have their own idea of how the show is meant to go?
Filled with whimsical humor, precision juggling, and puppetry, The Ripliam Menagerie is a circus show for all ages!
Running time: 30 Minutes
Location: Peabody Library