Inauguration Day

Everyone is invited to view the Inauguration Day events on the library’s big projection screen from 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 20th. Refreshments will be served.
Obama’s January 18th Speech
Below are some links to information on the big day and evening:
Aerial photo of the Inauguration
NH Bishop Gene Robinson’s Invocation
Elizabeth Alexander’s Inaugural Poem [...]

Ethiopia Reads

Yohannes Gebregeorgis is standing on the left of the donkey bookmobile in his tan hat.
Recently Nancy Hafkin who presented a library program in October, returned from a trip to Ethiopia. While there, she encountered a wonderful library on four feet, the donkey mobile, the brainchild of Yohannes Gebregeorgis. Gebregeorgis, an Ethiopian educated in the [...]

Colette is featured on the Writer’s Almanac, Jan 28th

It’s the birthday of the French novelist Colette, (books by this author) born Sidonie Gabrielle Colette in Saint-Sauver-en-Puisaye, France (1873). She is best known as the author of Cheri (1920) and Gigi (1945), but Colette published over 50 novels in her lifetime, many of them autobiographical.
Colette’s first books are known as the Claudine series, and [...]

ACT Film Series for Fall

Arts Council of Tamworth presents a Fall Film Series on Mondays at Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth and Wednesdays at Moultonborough library
at 7 p.m.
The Lives of Others (R) with subtitles
October 22th & 24th
Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2006, this first-rate thriller focuses on the horrifying, sometimes unintentionally funny system of observation [...]

Veterans Memorial

Now that groundbreaking has taken place, work proceeds on the Veterans Memorial here in the village. The Memorial will be dedicated
on August 12th, with a parade, music, speakers, presentations, etc. Don’t forget that the library’s Friends group has reprinted “Tamworth in World War II” and copies are available at the library for $5.00 each.
Here’s another [...]

Spring Film Series

Arts Council of Tamworth is presenting a Spring Film Series at 7:00 p.m. on Mondays at Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth, and Tuesdays OR Wednesdays at Moultonborough Library.
Volver (R) April 30 & May 2
After her “death”, a mother (Maura) returns to her home town
in order to fix the situations she couldn’t resolve during her life.
The Queen [...]

Tamworth in World War II

Tamworth is a town to be proud of. Yesterday, March 24th, 2006, was Town Meeting Day, and as the only non-resident in the room, I felt privileged to be among you, and even more, to be allowed to speak on behalf of the library. I hope that some of you took a look at the [...]