Cook Memorial Library

Tamworth, NH

Great Travel sites

photo by Ipinseel on Flickr
Say that you want to go to Greece in the near future. Remember when a travel agent used to do all the work of booking your hotel, tours, rental car, flights, etc.? I suppose there are still a few travel agents still around keeping busy, but many of us book [...]

Downloadable Audios and eBooks

Overdrive has just launched a collection of eBooks for library patrons to download to these compatible readers: Sony Readers and Barnes & Noble Nooks. Note that the Amazon Kindle is not a compatible reader, but your PC or Mac computer is! Most laptops and many netbooks run full versions of Windows or Mac OS and [...]

Support your library at Town Meeting

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Cook Memorial Library, situated at the center of Tamworth Village as it is, is at the heart of the community. Many residents [...]

Tamworth's Oral History Project

In the 1970s and 80s, an oral history project recorded a number of local people of advanced age reminiscing about early days in Tamworth, between the turn of the century and the Great Depression. These interviews were recorded on audio cassettes, and they have been languishing unheard in the library for many years.
Sponsored by The [...]

Book Arts Workshop – Portfolio-Making

Photo of a paste paper class

Book Arts Class in Portfolio-making on Saturday, May 2nd, 12 p.m. to 4 p. m.
Materials charge: $2.50 for each 13″X19″ or 10″ X 15″ portfolio (for heavy-wt. book board, book cloth, and heavy interior paper.) You can make several, if you wish.
I will bring the following:
Book board in [...]

At Cook you can now borrow a telescope!

The NH Astronomical Society has given the library an Orion StarBlast 4.5″ telescope to be loaned out to patrons. All you have to do is be a registered patron and come in to check it out. It comes with an instruction book, a flashlight, and three eyepieces. The library also has a CD-ROM on Astronomy [...]

ACT Film Series for Winter

Arts Council of Tamworth presents a Winter Film Series on Mondays at Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth and Wednesdays at Moultonborough Library at 7 p.m.
Burn After Reading (R)
January 26 & 28
After the true genius of No Country For Old Men, the Coen Brothers come back with a whole new dimension. Burn After Reading is a [...]

Rediscovering Afghanistan: Lessons from the Home

Rediscovering Afghanistan: Lessons from the Home, a NH Humanities Counsel program will be presented. Using still and film images, historical sources, material artifacts, ethnography, geopolitical data, and personal anecdotes, Jennifer Fluri, Dartmouth College, and Rachel Lehr will share insights garnered from their extensive experiences of both rural and urban Afghan homes and communities. Saturday, November [...]

One Book One Valley 2008 Community Read

Kate Braestrup, author of Here if You Need Me, is the featured author for this year’s 3rd annual One Book One Valley community read.
From Booklist’s review of “Here if You Need Me”:
Braestrup was an accidental chaplain. Her husband, Drew, a Maine state trooper, died in a car accident at a time when he was considering [...]

How to use the Downloadable Audios

No time to read? Come watch, listen and learn how to access thousands of audio titles using your computer and your library card for FREE! Local public libraries in Bartlett, Conway, Effingham, Freedom, Jackson, Madison, North Conway, and Tamworth all belong to the New Hampshire Downloadable Audio Books consortium, a partnership with the New [...]

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