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12:30 PM
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2:00 PM
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Seacoast Yoga Teachers
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Contact: Rochelle Jewell 603-512-4516
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Monthly meeting
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Location: MacLeod Board Room
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Saturday June 15, 2013
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Go To Top
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10:00 AM
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12:00 PM
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Learn and Play Mah Jongg
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Contact: Dawn Carswell dec40909@comcast.net
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MAH JONGG EVERY SATURDAY~~~~
Learn MAH JONGG, the ancient Chinese game of tiles. It's fast, free, and fun for all ages. Held every Saturday from 10 - Noon. Taught every week at 10:00, takes 15 minutes to learn.
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Location: Hilton Garden Room
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1:00 PM
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2:30 PM
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Do It Yourself Garden Design
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Contact: Sherry Evans 603-766-1703 smevans@cityofportsmouth.com
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Do it Yourself Garden Design: Design Principles and Tips For Budget Gardening
by landscape gardener, Cynthia Cary
Cynthia will take some of the mystery out of garden design and empower more people to take part in this rewarding process.
This talk is for the garden enthusiasts who are always interested in learning more, new gardeners who want a little guidance and encouragement, new home owners and home sellers with long project lists, and gardeners on a budget. Cynthia's talk will highlight the following topics:
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Help gardeners identify their goals and formulate a strategy for achieving them
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Offer basic design principles for successful compositions
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Suggest tips for greater plant success
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Share bang for your buck plant choices and money saving ideas
PLEASE NOTE: Weather permitting, the talk will be held in the library courtyard!
Cynthia is a New Hampshire Licensed Landscape Professional. She maintains a small private client base and enjoys teaching clients in the garden. She specializes in mixed border design, garden maintenance and rose care. Recently, she worked with Fat Cod Plantscapes working in gardens throughout the seacoast including the charming Portsmouth Library courtyard. For a number of years, she managed the perennial and rose departments at Churchill’s Gardens in Exeter. While at Churchill’s she gave regular talks on a variety of gardening subjects.
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Location: Levenson Community Room
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Monday June 17, 2013
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10:00 AM
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12:00 PM
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Memoir Writing Group
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Contact: Sherry Evans 603-766-1703 smevans@cityofportsmouth.com
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Memoir Writing Group meets twice a month from 10-Noon. Group is full and not accepting new members at this time. Please leave your name at the Front Desk of the Library if you are interested in joining.
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Location: MacLeod Board Room
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1:00 PM
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2:15 PM
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Literary Lunches Book Discussion
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Contact: Sherry Evans 603-766-1703 smevans@cityofportsmouth.com
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MONDAYS!
Literary Lunch Book Discussion at 1PM
Evening Discussion at 7PM
May 20 - Say nice things about Detroit / Scott Lasser. ( (20 (
2012
A native of Detroit, Lasser (The Year That Follows) guarantees readers a tour of the city with all its failings. David Halpert thought he'd left all that behind when he fled the city after high school for a brighter future. However, the death of a son, a divorce, an ill mother, and the strange murders of an old girlfriend, Natalie, and her black half-brother lure David home. To his surprise, he finds himself striking up new relationships with old friends, his father, and the city itself. VERDICT Second chances, though always welcome, are not necessarily delivered in recognizable packages. One can go home again, but it's a lot of work. Readers will savor this fast-paced tale of redemption in one sitting. Actor Steve Carell has optioned the book.
A native of Detroit, Lasser guarantees readers a tour of the city with all its failings. David Halpert thought he'd left all that behind when he fled the city after high school for a brighter future. However, the death of a son, a divorce, an ill mother, and the strange murders of an old girlfriend, Natalie, and her black half-brother lure David home. To his surprise, he finds himself striking up new relationships with old friends, his father, and the city itself. VERDICT Second chances, though always welcome, are not necessarily delivered in recognizable packages. One can go home again, but it's a lot of work. Readers will savor this fast-paced tale of redemption in one sitting. Actor Steve Carell has optioned the book. (L
(Library Journal)
June 17 - The train of small mercies / David Rowell. (2011)
Set in June 1968, Rowell's first novel revolves around the solemn train journey that brought the body of slain Sen. Robert Kennedy from Penn Station to Washington, D.C., for burial. Of the many people who gathered along the way to watch the train pass (famously captured by photographer Paul Fusco), Rowell focuses on six stories. Following long tradition and in his father's footsteps, Lionel Chase reports for his first day's work as a Pullman porter on the funeral train itself; Irish nanny Maeve McDerdon has come to D.C. to interview for a position with Ethel Kennedy, and with the loss of that opportunity finds herself adrift; Delores King is determined to see the train pass, but to do so she must deceive Arch, her disapproving husband; their son, fifth-grader Michael Colvert, is coping with a private trauma of his own; while veteran Jamie West, who recently returned from Vietnam minus a leg, waits for a newspaper reporter who will write a story that may help Jamie heal, or add insult to injury. Though Rowell is a respected journalist, he has a novelist's eye for the crucial, telling detail. In clean, elegant prose he recreates the lives of individuals mired in one of the most turbulent years of the century (Publishers Weekly, October 2012)
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Location: MacLeod Board Room
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7:00 PM
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8:15 PM
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Adult Book Discussion
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Contact: Sherry Evans 603-766-1703 smevans@cityofportsmouth.com
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ADULT BOOK DISCUSSIONS - Mondays, MONTHLY AT 1PM AND 7PM
May 20 - Say nice things about Detroit / Scott Lasser. ( (20 (
2012
A native of Detroit, Lasser (The Year That Follows) guarantees readers a tour of the city with all its failings. David Halpert thought he'd left all that behind when he fled the city after high school for a brighter future. However, the death of a son, a divorce, an ill mother, and the strange murders of an old girlfriend, Natalie, and her black half-brother lure David home. To his surprise, he finds himself striking up new relationships with old friends, his father, and the city itself. VERDICT Second chances, though always welcome, are not necessarily delivered in recognizable packages. One can go home again, but it's a lot of work. Readers will savor this fast-paced tale of redemption in one sitting. Actor Steve Carell has optioned the book.
A native of Detroit, Lasser guarantees readers a tour of the city with all its failings. David Halpert thought he'd left all that behind when he fled the city after high school for a brighter future. However, the death of a son, a divorce, an ill mother, and the strange murders of an old girlfriend, Natalie, and her black half-brother lure David home. To his surprise, he finds himself striking up new relationships with old friends, his father, and the city itself. VERDICT Second chances, though always welcome, are not necessarily delivered in recognizable packages. One can go home again, but it's a lot of work. Readers will savor this fast-paced tale of redemption in one sitting. Actor Steve Carell has optioned the book. (L
(Library Journal)
June 17 - The train of small mercies / David Rowell. (2011)
Set in June 1968, Rowell's first novel revolves around the solemn train journey that brought the body of slain Sen. Robert Kennedy from Penn Station to Washington, D.C., for burial. Of the many people who gathered along the way to watch the train pass (famously captured by photographer Paul Fusco), Rowell focuses on six stories. Following long tradition and in his father's footsteps, Lionel Chase reports for his first day's work as a Pullman porter on the funeral train itself; Irish nanny Maeve McDerdon has come to D.C. to interview for a position with Ethel Kennedy, and with the loss of that opportunity finds herself adrift; Delores King is determined to see the train pass, but to do so she must deceive Arch, her disapproving husband; their son, fifth-grader Michael Colvert, is coping with a private trauma of his own; while veteran Jamie West, who recently returned from Vietnam minus a leg, waits for a newspaper reporter who will write a story that may help Jamie heal, or add insult to injury. Though Rowell is a respected journalist, he has a novelist's eye for the crucial, telling detail. In clean, elegant prose he recreates the lives of individuals mired in one of the most turbulent years of the century (Publishers Weekly, October 2012)
LIBRARY PROGRAM
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Location: Hilton Garden Room
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Tuesday June 18, 2013
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10:00 AM
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11:00 AM
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Room Booked
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Location: Hilton Garden Room
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6:30 PM
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8:30 PM
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Surfrider Foundation
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Contact: Sarah Minella 508-246-6063
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RAP meeting
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Location: MacLeod Board Room
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Wednesday June 19, 2013
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10:00 AM
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12:00 PM
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Sit 'n Stitch
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Contact: Lisa Harling 766-1713 lqharling@cityofportsmouth.com
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Sit 'n Stitch offers an open space to knit, crochet, embroider or work on other lapwork every Wednesday from 10-12. Pick up tips and share projects. All skill levels and all ages welcome! Facilitated by librarian Lisa Q. Harling on a bi-monthly basis.
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Location: MacLeod Board Room
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1:00 PM
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2:00 PM
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PMS 6th grade
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Contact: Debbie Dube 603-436-5781
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Location: Levenson Community Room
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1:30 PM
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3:30 PM
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Art Instruction for 60+
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Contact: Sherry Evans 603-766-1703 smevans@cityofportsmouth.com
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Life Will Never Look the Same: The Art of Drawing is the Art of Seeing
Four week drawing class taught by local art instructor, Bernice Richman.
Beginners and more advanced students are welcome. Special emphasis will be on line, shape value, texture and perspective giving students the tools to make a three dimensional-looking drawing.
To sign up please call the reference desk at 603-766-1720. Class size is limited to 10.
Wednesdays, June 5, 12, 19, & 26
1:30-3:30
MacLeod Room
Students will need to purchase these supplies before the first class:
Table Easel
14 X 17 Sketch pad (Canson is good)
2B & 4B charcoal pencils
Pink pearl eraser
pencil sharpener
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Location: MacLeod Board Room
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3:00 PM
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4:30 PM
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Room Booked
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Location: Hilton Garden Room
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