Two movies on Tuesday, December 28th

From 3 to 4:30 p.m., DESPICABLE ME In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden deep beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by an army of tireless, little yellow minions, we discover Gru planning the biggest heist [...]

Holiday Crafts on Sat, December 11, 1-3 pm

Every year we offer a few hours when youngsters can make some crafts for holiday presents and cards. come and join in. It’s fun, free and open to all!

The Glorious July 4th Parade

Tamworth is such a big small town, big in spirit if small in population. This is abundantly apparent at the annual Fourth of July parade. So many wonderful floats and vintage cars and horses and wagons and buggies, kids on bikes, etc, etc paraded by. Even a yoke of cows. The library won for the [...]

Steve Schuch's Symphony of Whales

On Wednesday, July 29th at 7:30 p.m. Steve Schuch, composer, author and storyteller, performs A Symphony of Whales at the Tamworth Congregational Church. Don’t miss this wonderful event! For age 8 and up. In the winter of 1984-1985, nearly 3,000 whales were found trapped in the Senyavina Straight of Siberia. With the bitter cold, the [...]

Stories in the Stars

On Tuesday, July 14th at 7 pm, Matt Krug presents “The Stories Behind the Stars: Animals in the Night Sky.”

July 4th Parade

On Saturday, July 4th, at 10:30 a.m., join the Independence Day Parade and ride on the library float

A Richer Alternative to TV

Awesome Stories is an online database that I’ve been aware of for some time. Amongst other formats, it offers story narrations (an example about Helen Keller) to help people who learn better by sound than sight, to aid students of English, to provide a resource for adult education and to assist those who are tackling [...]

Family Games Afternoon

Come play games at the library. Chess, checkers, Boggle, Scrabble, backgammon, or whatever you like!

Simon Brooks, Storyteller

Come hear New Hampshire storyteller Simon Brooks share folk stories, myths and legends from many world cultures. A treat for all ages at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 21st

Richard Posner presents “Drowning Heroes, Dragons in the Deep”

Richard Posner of Tamworth Learning Circles offers a teaching and parenting perspective on “Drowning Heroes, Dragons in the Deep” on Wednesday, March 18th at 7:00 at the Cook Memorial Library. 21st Century men, in an increasingly crowded and complex world, face more and newer problems than the dragons and wilderness they evolved to face. Questions [...]