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The Great Green Wall: Climate Film & Discussion, Tuesday October 24

Join us for a captivating documentary screening of the film, The Great Green Wall featuring Inna Modja's journey through the Sahel region of Africa, as she leads the charge in building a green wall of trees and vegetation to tackle climate change and drought, followed by engaging facilitator-led small group discussions. Each group will take a look at a different issue and be led by local community leaders.

Holocaust Memorial Lecture & Book Discussion Featuring Dara Horn, Thursday October 19

National Jewish Book Award winning author, Dara Horn delivered the 2023 Holocaust Memorial Lecture at the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College on October 3, 2023. Join us to watch a recording of the lecture, In the Haunted Present: Jews in a Non-Jewish World which is based on her latest and award winning book, People Love Dead Jews.

Local History: Rainbow Voices - Seacoast LGBTQ Audio & Video Archives, Monday October 16

Come explore the collection of audio and video archives from the Seacoast LGBTQ+ community! The Seacoast NH LGBT History Project has teamed up with the Portsmouth Public Library to make these archives available to the public. Learn how the collections came about, what's included, and how you can access them. Tom Kaufhold and Holly Cashman, collaborators on the NH Seacoast LGBT History Project, will share clips from their oral history project and other video archives at this virtual "ribbon cutting" event.

Registration is not required. 

Genealogy Workshop: Research Huddle, Sunday October 15

Join us at the library in the Special Collections Room and be part of our Research Huddle! In sports, a huddle is when the players gather in a circle to strategize, motivate, or celebrate. We think genealogists should do the same!

This is the perfect opportunity to dig into your personal history and tell your family’s story. Use the library’s print collections and research databases to progress with your fact-finding. We’ll gather to use library resources, share our successes, learn from fellow researchers, and overcome our research stumbling blocks!

Film Screening: Rebecca, Thursday October 12

2020. PG-13.123 Minutes.

After a whirlwind romance in Monte Carlo with handsome widower Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer), a newly married young woman (Lily James) arrives at Manderley, her new husband's imposing family estate on a windswept English coast. Naive and inexperienced, she begins to settle into the trappings of her new life, but finds herself battling the shadow of Maxim's first wife, the elegant and urbane Rebecca, whose haunting legacy is kept alive by Manderley's sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (Kristin Scott Thomas).