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Arctic Research: A Front Row Seat on Global Warming
Thursday, May 22, 7:00pm.
Mayer Room
Jackie Richter-Menge, CRREL
The program is free and open to the public.
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Jackie Richter-Menge has been with the US Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover (CRREL) since 1981. Her research has focused on the Arctic sea ice cover, where she has gained significant first-hand experience leading or participating in more than 15 field programs. Results from Jackie's work have been used to help design Arctic-based offshore oil platforms, to improve the operational capabilities of surface vessels and submarines that travel in ice-covered waters, and to better understand the role that the polar regions play in the global climate system.
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" Water Cooler Diaries"
B.K. Rakhra
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"Water Cooler Diaries: Women Across America Share Their Day at Work"
edited by Joni B. Cole and B.K. Rakhra.
Tuesday, May 27, 7:00pm
Mayer Room
Join editor B.K. Rakhra for a reading and discussion of the latest book in the This Day series. What is a day on the job really like for a fashion designer, a medical examiner, a race car driver, a relief worker, a celebrity chef…? "Water Cooler Diaries" lets you go behind-the-scenes with working women across the country (whether that work comes with a paycheck or not). From cubicle drama to multi-tasking moms; from career highs to bosses from hell, this third volume in the acclaimed This Day series pays off big time in intimate details, laugh-out-loud truths, and a new kind of job satisfaction! Program is free and open to the public. Copies of the book will be for sale and signing.
"Skimming through this collection is not a good idea. There are sentences that will make readers stop, laugh, tear up, nod, and otherwise savor common and out-of- the-ordinary experience... worth rereading." – Booklist
"Water Cooler Diaries is, on the face of it, remarkably uplifting." — Los Angeles Times
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The Upper Valley Sierra Club & the Howe Library present
Diane Wilson, author of "An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas"
Monday, June 9, 7:00pm, Mayer Room
Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation shrimper, began fishing the bays off the Gulf Coast of Texas at the age of eight. By twenty-four she was a boat captain. In 1989, while running her brother's fish house at the docks and mending nets, she read a newspaper article that listed her home of Calhoun County as the number one toxic polluter in the country. She set up a meeting in the town hall to discuss what the chemical plants were doing to the bays and thus began her life as an environmental activist. Threatened by thugs and despised by her neighbors, Diane insisted the truth be told and that Formosa Plastics stop dumping toxins into the bay.
Free and open to the public. Copies of the book available for sale and signing.
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Pontine Theatre "HOME IS HEAVEN: Poems by Ogden Nash"
Wednesday, June 11, 7:00pm, Mayer Room
Come see Pontine Theatre's original staging of poems by America's master of light verse, Ogden Nash, who made his summer home on the New Hampshire seacoast. Pontine's Artistic Directors, M. Marguerite Mathews and Greg Gathers, have woven together Nash's poems, which deal with family and summers by the seashore. Using masks, shadow theatre, and puppetry HOME IS HEAVEN celebrates both the flavor of Seacoast New Hampshire and Nash's unique, whimsical and often idiosyncratic language and rhymes.
Free and open to the public.
NOTE: This program is not intended for young children.
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Susanne Dubroff
reading from her new collection of poetry
"The One Remaining Star"
Tuesday, June 17, 7:00pm
Mayer Room
Susanne's poetry and her translations of poetry have been published widely. She recently translated the poems of Rene Char in This Smoke That Carried Us, and her own work has been published in The Great River Review, International Poetry Review, Poetry, Paris Review and North American Review, among others. Copies of her new book, The One Remaining Star , will be available for sale and signing. |
Books & Lunch on Tuesday
Join BLT, a noontime program to discuss books. The group will meet on the second Tuesday of each month from Noon to 1:00pm in the Rotary Room at Howe. Bring your own lunch and a healthy appetite for a good discussion.
Tuesday, June 10 at Noon
"The Sparrow"
by Mary Doria Russell
"Brilliant...A startling portrait of an alien culture and of the nature of God...strikingly original."
Copies of the book will be available at Howe Library to check out.
Future BLT selections: July: "Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living" by Carrie Tiffany.
A list of past BLT books with links to the Howe catalog.
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Book Discussion Series
"Journeys to the Edge"
Thursdays, 7pm, Murray Room
Suzanne Brown, Discussion leader.
In the modern world where few spaces remain untouched, the thirst for risk and adventure is at the core of the American character. The books in this series put us shoulder to shoulder with people who have traveled to the edge. What is it that they discover?
March 6, Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson. An engrossing, riveting tale of deep-sea adventure and discovery
April 3, Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. One of the most popular works ever written about flight combines lyrical prose and the danger of air adventure.
April 24, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. A moving narrative of the tragic loss of an idealistic young man in the Alaskan wilderness.
May 15, Film screening: Into the Wild, directed by Sean Penn, from the book by Jon Krakauer.
June 12, Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger. Vividly written classic narrative of the author's extraordinary adventures through Arabia.
One of National Geographic's top ten greatest adventure books.
The series is sponsored by the NH Humanities Council.
Books are available to check out from Howe Library. The series is free and open to the public.
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CINÉ SALON Winter/Spring 2008 Film Series
Films and Digressions with Bruce Posner
Spring series concluded on May 12.
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Monday, June 9, 7:00 pm, Murray Room
"Once in a Lifetime"
by Kaufman & Hart
lnformal play reading and discussion takes place on the second Monday each month. Reading selections are assigned among the participants. Copies of the play will be provided.
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Play Chess for Middle Schoolers to Adults
Wednesdays 6 pm-9:30 pm
and Saturdays 11 am - 2 pm
at Howe Library, Hanover. Drop-in. No sign-up.
call Howe Library for information: 643-4120
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ValleyNet
Workshops
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ValleyNet offers free and low-cost workshops and lectures on computers, photo editing, Internet searching and more at the Community Technology Center in Lebanon, NH, at the Howe Library and at other area libraries.
For information or to register, call ValleyNet at 802 359-4162. See details of ValleyNet workshops:
http://www.valley.net/workshops/index.html
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