Cook Memorial Library

Tamworth, NH

Art is Eternal

Oil painting by Paul Gauguin

This link shows a spectacular evolution of female portraiture in art, and what better way to introduce CML’s art book collection.
There are many artists living in Tamworth and frequenting the library, so we invest in high quality art books for our patrons, of all ages. We try to buy two [...]

“It’s Not About the Hike” Program at 7 p.m. on Wed., July 21st

We all have our own mountains to climb. Your mountain may be a
4,000-footer in the White Mountains. But it could also be going to
college, getting a job, bringing up children or caring for aging
parents. Maybe your mountain is reorganizing a business, tackling a
difficult project, losing weight or starting an exercise program. It’s
your own personal [...]

Make waves at the library this summer!

Flickr photo by Michael.Heiss
Join your friends at the Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth as we ‘Make a Splash’ and read our way through the summer. You can read by the lake, at the beach, or in your bath tub!
Each week, keep track of the time you spend reading. Your goal is to read [...]

History

This page is in development.
Highlights of a Country Library by Jean Ulitz, 1992
Tamworth is unique in its literary background and library history. The Tamworth Social Library, one of the earliest in the state, was founded by Parson Samuel Hidden in 1796 and was supported in its entirety by the pioneer members of this small, [...]

People of Tamworth: Louise Taylor

Louise Taylor says multitudes of people have a hard time with poetry because in grade school they were forced to read 17th and 18th Century poetry with its dense and often inaccessible language. Since grade school, the only poetry they hear is read at funerals. In bookstores, poetry is placed in the least viewed aisles [...]

Voices of the World's Women: Book Discussion Series

Voices of the World’s Women is a new book discussion series being held at the Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth which features the works of women writers from around the world. Our goal is to introduce powerful voices from diverse cultures, and bring different women’s stories into our community.
Participants may read any or all of [...]

One hundred years ago

What a difference a century makes!
Here are some statistics for the Year 1909 :
The average life expectancy was 47 years.
Fuel for the Model T was sold in drug stores only.
Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of homes had a telephone.
There were only 8,000 cars and only 144 miles
of paved [...]

Closed on Veteran's Day

The library will be closed on Veteran’s Day, on Tuesday, November 11th.
This summer I visited the site of the B52 bomber crash on Elephant Mountain, near Greenville on Moosehead Lake. This crash occurred on a very cold January night in 1963. Two airmen survived by ejecting seconds before the crash, but seven others perished. There [...]

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 [...]

Book talk by Jasmine and Rosy Lamb

JASMINE LAMB IS A POET, ROSY LAMB A PAINTER will launch their book, Outside the Garden: Poems and Paintings on Sunday, August 24, 2008, 3:00 p.m. at the library. The sisters grew up in rural New Hampshire, moved away, and have come back together for this book, drawing on each other and their childhood for [...]

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