Tick Talk: Learn to Protect Yourself from Ticks, Thursday April 20

Join Bob & Barb Maurais from Mainely Ticks on Thursday April 20 from 6:30-8 PM  to learn strategies to better protect your family from the ever-increasing threat of ticks and tick-borne diseases. At this free workshop, you will learn personal protection strategies for you, your family, and your pets, landscape modifications, and the life cycle of the deer tick. There will be time for Q & A with the experts. All attendees will receive a complimentary tick identification guide, bookmark, and pair of fine-pointed tweezers.  Registration is required. 

Indigenous Stories — Making Place, Placing Makers: Connecting History, Memory and Land by Indigenizing New Hampshire Public Library Local History Collections, Tuesday March 28

Learn about the relationship between Indigenous representation in public library local history collections and the collective understanding of the land now known as New Hampshire. Findings demonstrate that New Hampshire public library's local history collections often lack recognition or an accurate representation of Abenaki histories, and, instead, hold a majority white authorship which relegates Abenaki peoples to a distant past, casting indigeneity in the light of myth and folklore.

Confronting Genocide and Antisemitism - Identifying the Warning Signs, Thursday March 30

“The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defense. Through this we can build, we must build a defense against repetition.” - Simon Wiesenthal, Holocaust Survivor

The past becomes prologue if societies do not learn the right lessons and take preventative action. With plenty of examples throughout history, the world has ample evidence of what leads to genocide in all of its forms, yet there are at least a dozen current genocide emergencies in the world today, as defined by Genocide Watch.

Shakespeare Discussion Group: The Tempest, Tuesday March 28

O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here at Shakespeare Discussion group! We invite you to join our merry band of players for our March discussion of The Tempest on the 28th at 4PM. Worry not if you’ve not joined in the past, as we invite fellows of all ages and knowledge to attend. This discussion will take place in the Macleod room at the library for, our library is indeed dukedom large enough!