Library Trustees meeting, Monday, September 9, 5:30 PM
Friends of Cook Memorial Library board meeting, Tuesday, September 10, 6:30 PM
Outdoor Nature-based Storytime for young children, every Tuesday at 10:30 AM outside behind the library. Be sure to dress for the weather!
Board Games, Tuesdays, 5:00-8:00 PM. For teens and adults. Come play a variety of board games in our historic front room. Feel free to bring a game you’d like to teach others.
Mountains to the Sea writing group, Tuesday, September 11, 10:30 AM online via Zoom. A partnership between our library and the Peaks Island (ME) Branch Library, the group meets monthly on Zoom to write and read together. Register to join at https://bit.ly/mtns-sea-24-25.
Tomato Taste-Off, Saturday, September 14, 9:30-12:30, outside in front of the library: Local farmer Hope Requardt hosts the fourth annual Tomato Taste-Off. Come taste and rate tomatoes in three categories: cherry, slicing, and paste. Home gardeners and farmers are invited to enter tomatoes they've grown for tasting and rating. Drop tomatoes off between 8:00 and 9:00 AM on Saturday morning. For each variety bring one whole tomato for display plus a couple more to be cut-up for sampling, enough for 10 people or so. For cherry/grape tomatoes, bring 1 pint.
Extreme Survival, Friends of Cook Memorial Library program, lunch, and annual meeting, Saturday, September 21, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM at the Tamworth Town House: The Friends will welcome speaker Michael Tougias, author of Extreme Survival: Lessons from Those Who Have Triumphed Against All Odds. To determine why disasters happen and how some people survive them, Tougias interviewed over 100 people who survived against all odds, first chronicling their harrowing survival stories, and then discussing in detail the lessons learned. A light lunch and the Friends’ annual meeting will follow the presentation. All are welcome!
Tamworth Town Records Transcription volunteers will meet on Wednesday, September 25 at 6:30 PM.
CML Book Group will have an organizing meeting on Friday, September 27 at noon to choose books for our 2025 discussions. Bring a bag lunch and ideas for books you want to read as a group, and we’ll put the kettle on for tea. Looking ahead to our October book group meeting, we have copies of this year’s One Book One Valley title, The Road to Dalton by Shannon Bowring, available to borrow.
Poetry Hour, Monday, September 30 at 5:00 PM. Come read and/or listen.
