Edible Book Contest ~ February 23rd 10 am til Noon

 

Join us for the Hancock Town Library's First Annual Edible Book Contest. Saturday February 23rd from 10 am til noon. Yummy fun for everyone in our community!  Individuals or groups of all ages are invited to create something edible that is book related. Entries will be judged in the following categories: Youth (up to age 16), Adult, or Family. Entries can be made out of anything, as long as it is edible.
We invite you to create and bring a piece of edible art related to books -- it can:

• Be a pun on a title;
• Refer to a scene or character;
• Look like a book (or paper, scroll etc.); or just 
• Have something to do with books.

Come into the library to fill out your entry form(s).

Rules of the Edible Book Contest:

1. Everyone can participate: the young, the old, the professional and non-professional, residents and non-residents, and even groups.
2. Entries must be book-related. Examples of this can be found online - just google Edible Books Contest or look at photos from the Seattle Edible Book Contest here.
3. Entries can be made out of anything, as long as it is edible.
4. Entries must be family-friendly.
5. Participants can enter up to 3 entries.
6. Registration is free!

Spread the word! Invite family and friends! Please join us ~ the more entries, the more fun we'll have!!

Saturday February 2nd, 11 am - 1 pm

Pollinators – The Food on Our Tables



Keeping bees and offering local beekeeping instruction has been Jodi Turner’s passion for over 10 years. Her love of bees was sparked at an early age while working at Stonewall Farm in Keene. Jodi’s program will focus on beekeeping but she will also teach us about other pollinators in our gardens. Honeybees may be the best known pollinators but there are many others who help bring food to the table. Jodi and her husband Dean own Imagine That HONEY! and live in Swanzey, NH. This program is free and open to all.

Library Events for February 2013

Saturday February 2^nd from 11 am – 1 pm 

(Snow date Feb. 9^th)

Pollinators – The Food on Our Tables with Jodi Turner

Keeping bees and offering local beekeeping instruction has been Jodi Turner’s passion for over 10 years. Her love of bees was sparked at an early age while working at Stonewall Farm in Keene. Jodi’s program will focus on beekeeping but she will also teach us about other pollinators in our gardens. Honeybees may be the best known pollinators but there are many others who help bring food to the table.  Jodi and her husband Dean own Imagine That HONEY! and live in Swanzey, NH. This program is free and open to all.

Wednesday February 6^th at 7:00 pm

First Wednesday Book Club

Join us in the Daniels Room where we’ll discuss Louise Penny’s book, Bury Your Dead. Next month’s book will be Sixpence House by Paul Collins. Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside-to move, in fact, to the village of Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books" that boasts fifteen hundred inhabitants-and forty bookstores. Taking readers into a secluded sanctuary for book lovers, and guiding us through the creation of the author's own first book, Sixpence House becomes a heartfelt and often hilarious meditation on what books mean to us.  Copies of the book will be available at the front desk.

Tuesday February 12th at 7:00 pm

Songs of Love & Seduction: Opera Duets & Arias

Bring your Valentine to this special performance of opera duets all about love performed by two of the Monadnock Region’s most celebrated local performers. Bass-baritone Tom Cochran played brass and piano as a child, but has found real passion as a vocalist. He has sung with local and regional choruses and opera companies including Granite State and Raylynmor opera companies, Monadnock Chorus, and the New England Chamber Choir. Soprano Amy Knight has been a life-long lover of music. Amy has sung choral, comprimario and lead roles in the Monadnock region. She has also sung with many local choral groups, including the Norway Pond Festival Singers, Monadnock Chorus and the Peterborough Chamber Choir. This program is free and open to all.

 
Saturday, February 23 from 10:00 am -Noon

Edible Books Contest!

Yummy fun for everyone in our community!  Individuals or groups of all ages are invited to create something edible that is book related. Entries will be judged in the following categories: Youth (up to age 16), Adult, or Family. Entries can be made out of anything, as long as it is edible. Entries must be family-friendly. Registration is free!

From the Children's Room

Rennie Timm, Children’s Librarian

Tuesday, February 5 at 3:15 – 4:15 pm

Block Party: LEGO® Fun

Join us for the afternoon and let your imagination run wild. Hands-on learning opportunity to explore how things work. LEGO® bricks are provided by the library. All ages welcome.

Thursdays in February at 10:00 am (NEW TIME)

Laptop Storytime

Walking and talking, this babies to toddler story time is an interactive program for all pre-schoolers and their parents or care providers. We’ll share books, rhymes, songs, finger play & movement. Our goal is to foster an early love of books and literacy. At the end of the program, there will be playtime for parents and caregivers to share books, puzzles, or other literacy activities with their toddler. Dress comfortably as we will be sitting on the floor in the Children’s Room. No registration required, feel free to drop in anytime.

Thursday, February 14 at 3:15 – 4:15 pm

Valentine’s with Michelle Russell

Create your own potato print Valentine and decorate an edible sweetheart treat. Registration required as space is limited, sign up in Children’s Room or by email, hancockkidlib@comcast.net

Friday, February 15 at 6:00 – 7:45 pm

Movie, Popcorn & Trivia Night for Tweens & Teens

Middle School and High School Students are invited to gather with friends, munch on popcorn & watch a movie together.  Our feature presentation will be determined by the group in attendance.

Saturday, February 16th from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Story Walk (co-sponsored with Harris Center for Conservation Education)

Walk or snowshoe along a trail that tells a story at this year’s Hancock Winter Frolic. The story from the book Stranger in the Woods will be laid out along a trail for you to read as you go along. At the end of the trail, build your own snowman (snow permitting), and decorate it with delicious treats for the birds to enjoy in the cold winter days ahead. The trail will be open 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Norway Pond Nature Preserve on Depot Road in Hancock. Cosponsored by the Harris Center for Conservation Education and the Hancock Town Library.  For more information, contact Susie Spikol Faber at 525-3394 or spikol@harriscenter.org.

Thursday, February 28 at 1:00-2:00 pm

Snow Sculptures

Come join us for an afternoon of snow sculpting. Can you create a snow look alike? Or do you have a favorite book character that you would like to build? Please bring your own snow decorating supplies with you. Meet us in the field behind the library back parking lot. Hot chocolate will be provided to warm us up.

Calling all adults and children age 10+ interested in ARCHERY, Lucy Morris, our summertime instructor will be back hopefully this Spring for another archery course. Call  Rennie, the Children’s Librarian for more information.

See Lucy on Chanel 9 the Chronicle

http://www.wmur.com/new-hampshire-chronicle/Monday-May-28th-hitting-the-bulls-eye/-/13383450/14122718/-/f7ghopz/-/index.html

Poem for a snowy day...

Shoveling Snow With Buddha

In the usual iconography of the temple or the local Wok
you would never see him doing such a thing,
tossing the dry snow over a mountain
of his bare, round shoulder,
his hair tied in a knot,
a model of concentration.

Sitting is more his speed, if that is the word
for what he does, or does not do.

Even the season is wrong for him.
In all his manifestations, is it not warm or slightly humid?
Is this not implied by his serene expression,
that smile so wide it wraps itself around the waist of the universe?

But here we are, working our way down the driveway,
one shovelful at a time.
We toss the light powder into the clear air.
We feel the cold mist on our faces.
And with every heave we disappear
and become lost to each other
in these sudden clouds of our own making,
these fountain-bursts of snow.

This is so much better than a sermon in church,
I say out loud, but Buddha keeps on shoveling.
This is the true religion, the religion of snow,
and sunlight and winter geese barking in the sky,
I say, but he is too busy to hear me.

He has thrown himself into shoveling snow
as if it were the purpose of existence,
as if the sign of a perfect life were a clear driveway
you could back the car down easily
and drive off into the vanities of the world
with a broken heater fan and a song on the radio.

All morning long we work side by side,
me with my commentary
and he inside his generous pocket of silence,
until the hour is nearly noon
and the snow is piled high all around us;
then, I hear him speak.

After this, he asks,
can we go inside and play cards?

Certainly, I reply, and I will heat some milk
and bring cups of hot chocolate to the table
while you shuffle the deck.
and our boots stand dripping by the door.

Aaah, says the Buddha, lifting his eyes
and leaning for a moment on his shovel
before he drives the thin blade again
deep into the glittering white snow.

--Billy Collins

Library Trustee Minutes 1.23.13

MINUTES

HANCOCK LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES

January 23, 2013

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

The meeting was called to order at1 pm.

The November 28, 2012 minutes were approved.

The Treasurer's report was approved.

MS 9 reports were signed by all members of the Board.

Amy reported that recently the Library has been exceptionally busy.  She briefly reviewed Library activities.

The Board voted to formally accept an anonymous gift of $5,000.

After some discussion the Board voted to continue to utilize the Bank of America for management of the Hancock Town Library Trustee Investment Fund and the Walter Clark Fund, and Amy was requested to invite a representative of the Bank of America to the next regular meeting of the Board for purposes of reviewing investment strategies for funds under the direct supervision by the Library Board of Trustees.

The Board reviewed a draft 2012 Library Annual Report  and after brief discussion approved the text and asked Amy to forward the report to the Town Clerk.

The Board then proceeded to conduct a line by line review of revised Investment Policy Guidelines dated January 23, 2013.  After some minor modifications the Guidelines were informally approved, and it was agreed that the Board would formally adopt them at its next regular meeting in February.

Mary Garland provided an update on potential costs of having a new building sign prepared for the Library.  After discussion the Board requested that Amy have the seriously deteriorated wooden building sign removed when conditions allow, and that for now that sign would not be replaced; the existing free-standing sign being sufficient.  It was also observed that the free-standing sign would need to be replaced in the next year or two. The Board thanked Mary for her extensive research on this matter, and Amy was asked to store the information that Mary had collected, should it be needed in the future.

It was agreed that the next Library Board of Trustees meeting will be on Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 1:00 pm.

Submitted by Peter Ryner

Library Trustee Meetings

Library trustee meetings will now take place on the fourth Wednesday of the month at 1:00 pm. These meetings take place in the Daniels Room and are open to the public. This is a change from our previous meeting time of 9:00 am on the fourth Wednesday of the month.

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