Thursday April 26th @ 7:00 pm

New Hampshire Author
Rick Davidson

Rick Davidson’s novel Catamount: A North Country Thriller, has been called “the definition of a good all-night thriller” by the New Hampshire Outdoor Gazette. And Rick has been called “a real crowd-pleaser” by other librarians in the state. Rick Davidson is a public school teacher, award winning professional photographer, and sometime guitar player. He holds a BA from Bowdoin College in philosophy with a minor in English Literature. Rick and his wife have traveled extensively throughout Europe and lived near Stuttgart Germany for over seven years. They now enjoy their rural home in Freedom New Hampshire. Rick is presently working on a mystery novel that can not truthfully be described as a sequel to Catamount but that does feature some of the same characters. Free and open to all.

New Books Just IN!!!

Some of the new books that just hit our shelves. Brand spanking new books by Nevada Barr, CJ Box, Harlan Coban, Robert Crais, Jody Picoult, Jacqueline Winspear and more. Come in and check 'em out!

Thursday April 19th @ 7:00 pm

Tales of the Francois Vase with Julia Older & Friends

Julia Older and Hobblebush Books poets Sid Hall, Rodger Martin, and Becky Sakellariou will celebrate April National Poetry Month with a group reading of Older's new book-length poem Tales of the Francois Vase. Chosen as the third volume of the Hobblebush Granite State Poetry Series, the poem follows the 25-century journey of a real Greek vase smashed twice into 600-plus pieces and puzzled together, each time with a piece missing. A third time—during the 1966 Florence flood—a scientist intentionally broke the vase, the missing piece was inserted, and at last the vase was whole. Initially, Older's obsession with the famous vase resulted in a radio play produced by NH Director Kevin Gardner and broadcast nationally by Radio Works to more than 60 NPR stations. Now the complete book includes lively Iliad vase figures, a backstory of the poet's translated research, and a CD of the award-winning radio drama. Please join us for what a recent Keene Sentinel review calls: "Strange and engrossing tales. Falling under the spell of these voices is a deeply satisfying experience." After the reading there will be a signing and you may meet Julia and poets Sid Hall, Rodger Martin, and Becky Sakellariou. Free and open to all.

Button Up NH - April 5th at 7:00 PM

Spring!

Let Us Now Praise Libraries

Author Anthony Doerr recently wrote a piece in the Boston Sunday Globe about the importance of libraries. It's a beautiful bit of writing that speaks to the magic of reading and how important books are to us, not as something to be forced down because they're good for us, "they're not giant horse pills stuffed with mental-multi-vitamin-dust meant to be choked down before dessert," but something to be savored. "Some books are roasted lobsters soaked with butter; some are molten tubs of dark chocolate..." It's worth a moment to read the entire article and you can do that here. Now I'm off for some lobster...

Library Trustee Minutes March 28, 2012

MINUTES

HANCOCK LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES

MARCH 28, 2012

Present: Mary Garland, Amy Markus, Laurie Bryan, Peter Ryner

The meeting was called to order at 1:00 pm.

The minutes of February 22, 2012 were approved.

The Treasures report was approved.

Directors Report

The Board formally approved revisions to the Personnel Policy, clarifying matters of vacation, sick days and personal days.

Amy reviewed Library activities for the month of April.

Amy stated that Mary had selected a color scheme for repainting the windows in the front room. There was discussion as to whether, as had been suggested at various points in the past, the windows should first be replaced, for energy efficiency, before the new colors are added. It was agreed that this deserved further consideration and that Amy and Peter would look into possible sources of funding before the next Trustee meeting. It was further agreed that the repainting would not take place until the Board has discussed this further.

It was agreed that the Board would change the time of future regular Board meetings to 9:00 am, while keeping the day of meetings on the fourth Wednesday of each month, unless otherwise noted. Thus the next meeting of the Board will be on April 25^th at 9am.

Submitted by Peter Ryner