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Nov 14 – 10:00 AM

Adult Dungeons and Dragons: Session I

Session I of Adult D&D is an ongoing, established campaign. Newcomers to Howe Adult D&D should start with Session III This is a regular, ongoing group which is open to […]

Nov 14 – 10:30 AM

Dads and Doughnuts

Join us for a fun-filled time of stories, doughnuts, coffee, and a craft! This special program is for children ages 8 and under and their dads or father figures. We […]

Nov 14 – 10:30 AM

Memory Café

The Memory Cafe is a supportive space for individuals with dementia and their care partners to engage in social, cognitive, and physical activities including live music, arts & crafts, chair exercises […]

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Emily Ruff of Sage Mountain Botanical Sanctuary shares stories from their efforts to protect an 80,000 acre high priority wildlife corridor, diverse wetland habitat, sensitive watershed, and rare plant communities. Through these examples, she highlights ways each of us - whether stewarding a forest or a small backyard - can implement strategies that support the protection of greater corridor ecosystems. This talk took place on October 27, 2026, and was co-sponsored by the Howe Library and the Hanover Conservation Commission.

Protecting Vermont's Ecosystem - Backyard Strategies for Corridor Conservation

A discussion with the creators of A Family Enslaved, a new and unique graphic novel that tells the story of those enslaved by Eleazar Wheelock, the founder of Dartmouth College based on primary sources and created through a collaboration of archivists, scholars, educators, and cartoonists.

Learn more about the Dartmouth and Slavery Project here:https://www.library.dartmouth.edu/slavery-project

This talk took place on October 28th at the Howe Library in Hanover, NH.

Dartmouth and Slavery Project: A Family Enslaved

Margo Burns explores an array of prosecutions in seventeenth century New England, using facsimiles of primary source manuscripts, from first formal complaints to arrest warrants, indictments of formal charges to death warrants, and the reversals of attainder and rescinding of excommunications years after the fact; demonstrating how methodically and logically the Salem Court worked. This talk took place at the Howe Library in Hanover, NH, on October 20, 2026, and was co-sponsored by the Howe Library and the Hanover Historical Society.

Margo Burns is the 10th-generation great-granddaughter of Rebecca Nurse, who was hanged in Salem in 1692 on the charge of witchcraft. She is the project manager and an associate editor of Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt, published in 2009 by Cambridge University Press.

The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: What the Primary Sources Tell Us

Artist Corey Burchman discussed his work and exhibit, “The Poetry of Color”, on display in the Ledyard Gallery at the Howe Library in Hanover, NH from October 31st through December 30th, 2026.

More information about the Global Children’s Art Programme can be found on their website: https://glocap.org/

Ledyard Gallery Interview - Corey Burchman

Author, fortune teller, and cultural educator Jezmina Von Thiele talks about her recent book, Secrets of Romani Fortune Telling, co-authored with Paulina Stevens. She offers an introduction to the Roma, an Indian diaspora people more commonly known by the slur/misnomer “Gypsies", and shares what it’s like growing up in a fortune telling family and being raised to do this work.

This program took place on September 22nd, 2026 at the Howe Library in Hanover, NH.

Secrets of Romani Fortune Telling: A Conversation with Author Jezmina Von Thiele

Justin Strauss, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth, guides us through the earliest evidence for animals in the fossil record and what hypotheses exist for driving early animal evolution. In addition to this historical narrative, Professor Strauss will also take us along for a ride into his research in the remote mountains of northwestern Canada, where the search for these fossils also happens to be in the some of the last vestiges of wilderness on our planet.

Searching for the Oldest Animal Fossils

Ashley Offill, Curator of Collections, Hood Museum of Art, explores the instrumental role of archeology in forming many early museum collections, and the legacies and lessons of archaeological objects in the modern museum. This talk is in dialogue with the Hood Museum exhibitions Stone, Sand, and Clay: Connecting Cultures in the Ancient Mediterranean and From Mastodon to Mosaic: Building an Academic Art Collection in America. This talk took place at the Howe Library in Hanover, NH, on July 29, 2026.

Excavations and Exhibitions: Digging into Archeology and the Art Museum

Russ Cohen, naturalist and wild foods enthusiast, grew up in Weston, Mass, where he spent much of his free time in the woods, thereby cultivating a strong spiritual connection to nature. He received his bachelor's degree in land use planning from Vassar College in 1978, and received a masters in Natural Resources and a law degree from The Ohio State University in 1982. Until retiring from state service, Russ was employed by the Riverways Program (now part of the Division of Ecological Restoration) of the Mass. Department of Fish and Game since 1988, and served as its Rivers Advocate from 1992 until June of 2015. Other past employers have included the Nature Conservancy, the Land Trust Alliance, The Hillside Trust, a land trust in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Massachusetts Audubon Society.

This program was cosponsored by Howe Library and the Hanover Conservancy. https://www.hanoverconservancy.org/

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