Tyler Brown, a wildlife biologist responsible for the Vermont Dept of Fish and Wildlife’s Beaver Baffle Program, will discuss beaver biology, the benefits of beaver-created wetlands, history of beavers in Vermont, and current management strategies and techniques for resolving beaver-human conflicts.

After the presentation, join Tyler and local guides Peggy Willey, Jim McCracken and Doug Tifft for a hike to a beaver lodge at Treasure Island!

Proudly cosponsored by the Peabody Library, West Fairlee Conservation Commission, Thetford Conservation Commission, and the Treasure Island Committee.

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

The next meeting of Thetford’s informal nonfiction book discussion group will take place at Latham Library on Thetford Hill on Tuesday October 29that 7 pm.

We will be discussing “Crying in H Mart” by Michelle Zauner.

In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother’s particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother’s tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food.

It was her mother’s diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.

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.

Trick-or-treat for a book at Latham Library! We will be giving away books (one per child, please) inside the library on Halloween Night. Spooky stories read upon request!

Please join us where we left off last Fall/Winter season with two more works
of fiction and a memoir that explore food, experience, self-perception and
moral dilemmas.  Book discussions take place from noon to 1 p.m. in the Latham
Library Community Room and include a voluntary potluck lunch featuring foods
mentioned in or related to the books.  To register and pick up a book, please
contact librarian@thetfordlibrary.org. Thursday, November 14, 2024 - at noon –
Five Quarters of the Orange, by Joanne Harris. Food becomes a link between
past and present as an aging woman seeks to understand a tragedy triggered by
the German occupation of France during World War II.

Please come join us for another shared event! A puppet show then a stroll with your child’s lantern on the green, across the road. The green will be magically illuminated with luminaries the children have made! At the end of our stroll, we will light a lantern in the center and take the moment to bring awareness of the unhomed into our thoughts. Afterwards we are invited to visit Latham Library for cookies and cider!
Children not enrolled at the center are welcome to join us and can have fun making a lantern from a jar or clear cup, (Pinterest has many ideas!) at home with a wire handle and decorating it, we will have battery tealight candles available for all lanterns! Please dress warm!
Typically lantern walks are done on November 11th, in recognition of Martinmas, a special day to commemorate Saint Martin, who lent his soldiers cloak to the homeless to keep warm. In keeping with our anti biased curriculum but still wanting to share the magic of this event we have chosen a different date!
We will have a donation jar available for our local American Legion #79.
Parking is available in the church parking lot, please do not park on the green.

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: Harold and Maude

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.

Latham Library’s Holiday Book Sale happens on the same day as the Holiday Craft Fair at Thetford Academy.  Come shop our great selection of new, lightly used, and vintage books for adults and children, movies on DVD, music and audiobooks on CD, puzzles and games, and more! Everything is priced by donation. Come support your local library, stock up for winter reading, and find some great bargains and gifts for the holidays!

***Time has been updated to 12:00 Noon on Nov 26, and the format is hybrid (in person and online via Zoom)***

We will be discussing Darwin’s Ghosts by Rebecca Stott.

Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received an unsettling letter. He had expected criticism; in fact, letters were arriving daily, most expressing outrage and accusations of heresy. But this letter was different. It accused him of failing to acknowledge his predecessors, of taking credit for a theory that had already been discovered by others. Darwin realized that he had made an error in omitting from Origin of Species any mention of his intellectual forebears. Yet when he tried to trace all of the natural philosophers who had laid the groundwork for his theory, he found that history had already forgotten many of them.

Darwin’s Ghosts tells the story of the collective discovery of evolution, from Aristotle, walking the shores of Lesbos with his pupils, to Al-Jahiz, an Arab writer in the first century, from Leonardo da Vinci, searching for fossils in the mine shafts of the Tuscan hills, to Denis Diderot in Paris, exploring the origins of species while under the surveillance of the secret police, and the brilliant naturalists of the Jardin de Plantes, finding evidence for evolutionary change in the natural history collections stolen during the Napoleonic wars. Evolution was not discovered single-handedly, Rebecca Stott argues, contrary to what has become standard lore, but is an idea that emerged over many centuries, advanced by daring individuals across the globe who had the imagination to speculate on nature’s extraordinary ways, and who had the courage to articulate such speculations at a time when to do so was often considered heresy.

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.