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: Casablanca.
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.
Our next meeting will be at Thetford’s Latham Library on Tuesday January 30th 2024 at 12 noon and on Zoom. Contact librarian@thetfordlibrary.org for the Zoom link.
We will be discussing “Why We Swim” by Bonnie Tsui
We swim in freezing Arctic waters and piranha-infested rivers to test our limits. We swim for pleasure, for exercise, for healing. But humans, unlike other animals that are drawn to water, are not natural-born swimmers. We must be taught. Our evolutionary ancestors learned for survival; today, swimming is one of the most popular activities in the world. Why We Swim is propelled by stories of Olympic champions, a Baghdad swim club that meets in Saddam Hussein’s former palace pool, modern-day Japanese samurai swimmers, and even an Icelandic fisherman who improbably survives a wintry six-hour swim after a shipwreck. New York Times contributor Bonnie Tsui, a swimmer herself, dives into the deep, from the San Francisco Bay to the South China Sea, investigating what it is about water that seduces us, and why we come back to it again and again.
An immersive, unforgettable, and eye-opening perspective on swimming—and on human behavior itself.
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. Please be vaccinated and masked if you plan to attend in person.
Latham Library’s Valentine’s Tea Party is back! Bring a loved one for tea and treats in the library’s lower level Community Room.
Bring a loved one for tea and treats in the library’s lower level Community Room. Valentine making supplies will be available. Fancy tea party attire welcome but not required! Stuffed animals / dolls can come enjoy the party too.
All ages are welcome!
Join us for Peabody Library’s annual Valentine’s Day celebration, the Chocolate Indulgence. Please bring a chocolate dish to share. Copies of recipes are encouraged. All are welcome!
“The Edge”, an exhibit of mixed media on canvas by Giovanna Lepore, showing February 5 through March 9, 2024 in the Latham Memorial Library gallery space. There will be an opening event on February 24 from 1:00-3:00 pm. Giovanna (Jennie ) Lepore was born and raised in Gardiner Maine. Her favorite memories were exploring on her uncle’s farm Green Point on Merry Meeting Bay . This ecological gem was frequenting by Rachel Carson a friend of her uncles . Jennie was inspired by the migration birds, the meeting of the three rivers in a tidal bay and the changeable moods throughout the seasons. The lifelong love of nature was cultivated from this place.Lepore studied art at Lake Erie college and UNH graduating with a BA studio art. She taught art and horsemanship both in the US and Sicily . Her favorite teaching experience was as an outdoor educator both at Coby Sawyer College and Hampshire Cooperative Nursery School . She developed an outdoor curriculum geared to the exploration of the natural flora and fauna of the Connecticut River region of NH and VT.In addition to her love of painting and the outdoors, Lepore is an lifelong horse trainer and equestrian who competes locally in dressage on her home trained Arabian “Tiger Lily “. Her favorite activity is trail riding -observing nature are on the back of Lily .Paintings marked with an “X” are for sale . 100 percent of proceeds will be donated to the Canaan NH Conservation Commission. Please call the artist directly if interested 603-523-7154
STUFFED ANIMAL SLEEPOVER! Does your stuffie need some excitement over the school break? Bring it to Latham Library on Thursday, February 29 at 6:00 pm for a pajama storytime with milk and cookies. Then, leave your stuffie for an overnight at the library! When you pick it up (on Friday morning at 11:00 storytime or anytime after that) we will share some photos with you of the adventures your stuffie had at its sleepover!
Hark! … Are those the tones of dulcimer and accordion I hear flowing through the air..?? Well, then, Spring cannot be far away, if Samantha Moffatt and Klemens will be returning to the Peabody Library with their songs, dances and tunes played on hammered dulcimer and accordion. They will call forth the robins and the green grass with reels and airs from Scotland, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Greece and France–for your listening pleasure, and in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day.
Celebrate the Spring Equinox and get excited for the upcoming solar eclipse with Latham Library and local NASA scientist Tara Tomlinson! Tara is a planetary scientist and Dartmouth PhD candidate who specializes in public outreach and community education. This all-ages talk will cover the celestial movements that give us equinoxes, solstices, and eclipses, as well as the natural and cultural importance of these events from the ancient past to the present. Bring your questions and your enthusiasm for a spaced out night at the library!
Join us on Monday, April 8 from 2:30-4:00 to celebrate and watch the solar eclipse at Latham Library on Thetford Hill! Free eclipse viewing glasses will be available, plus food, music, and activities for kids. This event will be held outside in the library’s back parking lot; please park at Thetford Elementary School and use the path to walk around the school and over the bridge to the library.
Food will be provided by donation by Friends of Thetford Academy Robotics. Help send the Thetford Academy Robotics team travel to Dallas, TX, April 24th-28th for the 2024 VEX Robotics High School World Championship!
**Rescheduled due to weather – new date April 10**
On Wednesday, April 10 at 7:00 p.m., the Peabody Library will host Thetford author Dean Whitlock, who will read the opening scenes of “Deep Blue Jump”, his latest novelette, which has been included on the Recommended Reading List for 2023 by Locus Magazine. Founded in 1968, Locus has become the de facto Publishers Weekly of the SF&F genre, the place fans, editors, and agents go to for reviews and news, so it’s a big honor to be included on this annual list. The reading will be followed by a Q&A session with Whitlock, following which he will finish reading the story to those who wish to stay. (An uninterrupted reading would take about an hour.)
“Deep Blue Jump” was published in the September/October 2023 edition of Asimov’s SF Magazine, and the editors have now made it available to read online for free (along with the five other 2023 stories Asimov’s published that made it onto the Locus list).
Most people know Whitlock for his Middle Grade and Young Adult novels, but “Deep Blue Jump” deals with serious adult themes, including human trafficking and substance abuse. Parents should know that it is appropriate for older teens in their final years of high school but not for younger ages.
Copies of Whitlock’s books, including his story collection, Iridescent Dreams, will be available to purchase at the event. Unfortunately, the collection was published a year before “Deep Blue Jump” was written, but his other stories have all been well received.
The reading will also be available via Zoom. Email librarian@thetfordlibrary.org for the link.