Hi everyone,
Juneteenth is this coming Wednesday, and though the library will be closed on this federal holiday, we will be host to a Juneteenth celebration from 4:00 to 6:00 PM. Bring family, friends, or yourself to see displays about the holiday and sample traditional Juneteenth celebration food, enjoy (and maybe sing along to) songs by the Silver Lake Singers, and listen to a story told by Andy Davis. Find the celebration outside behind the library where it’s shady in the afternoon. If it’s wicked hot, we can move inside to the cool basement meeting room at the library.
Here’s what’s happening this week at your library:
Mobile Library to Remick Acres, Mon 6/17, 2:00ish PM
Outdoor nature-based storytime, Tues 6/18, 10:30 AM
Baby & toddler time, Tues 6/18, 3:00 PM
Board games for summer evenings, Tuesdays, 5:00-8:00 PM
Juneteenth celebration, Wed 6/19, 4:00-6:00 PM
Family Reading Club, Wed 6/19, 4:00-5:00 PM: For kids ages 5 and 6 with a parent or caregiver. Sign up at the library ahead of time and pick up a book in the Anna Hibiscus series by Atinuke. Read the book together ahead of time. The library will be closed for Juneteenth, but will open for this program.
4th of July Parade projects, Sat 6/22, 10:00 or so until 1:00 or so: Cook Library, Chocorua Lake Conservancy, and Tamworth Recreation invite you to come and decorate for the upcoming July 4th parade. Come make community art and get Tamworth ready for a festive Independence Day. Find us outside the library (front and back), or inside if the weather isn’t good.
Our Summer Reading Program has started! Learn all about our program.
Coming up next week: Poetry Hour on Monday, potluck book discussion of food memoirs on Tuesday, and on Saturday, June 29, NH Communities Read Frederick Douglass “What to the Slave is your Fourth of July?” We’re one of the locations for this statewide event coordinated by Black Heritage Trail NH.
Cook Memorial Library, 603-323-8510, https://tamworthlibrary.org
Hours: Mon 10-5, Tues & Wed 10-8 (closed on Wed 6/19), Fri 10-5, Sat 10-2 Mary Cronin