Events
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2019 Film Series: Libraries on the Big Screen – Storm Center (1956)
The Keene Public Library 30 Winter Street, Keene, NH, United StatesThursday, November 7. 6:30-9pm. Keene Public Library. Storm Center (1956) A small-town librarian refuses to take a book on Communism out of circulation, with disastrous results. The first film to directly attack McCarthyism.
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Wilkins and Kingsbury Toy Identification Day & Show-n-Tell
FeaturedHistorical Society of CheshireWilkins and Kingsbury Toy Identification Day & Show-n-Tell: Saturday, November 9, 1:00 to 2:30 pm, Exhibit Hall, Historical Society. Kingsbury Toys experts Greg Bixby and David Frechette will be on hand to identify toys that were manufactured by Keene’s Kingsbury Manufacturing Company, Wilkins Toy Company, or Triumph Wringer Company. Participants are encouraged to bring up […]
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2019 Film Series: Libraries on the Big Screen – Desk Set (1957)
FeaturedThe Keene Public Library 30 Winter Street, Keene, NH, United StatesThursday, November 14. 6:30-9pm. Keene Public Library. Desk Set (1957) The library/research staff at a large television network have their jobs threatened when the network hires someone to install his invention, EMERAC ("Electromagnetic Memory and Research Arithmetical Calculator") to automate the research operation.
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Finnish Tori – Market
FeaturedTroy Elementary School 44 School Street, Troy, NH, United StatesFinnish Tori-Marketplace at Troy Elementary School on Saturday, November 16, 2019 9-2pm About 20 vendors of Finnish crafts, baked goods, books, clothing, and Christmas ornaments will set up shop for a day at the Finnish Tori-Marketplace, Saturday, November 16 at the Troy Elementary School, 44 School Street, Troy, New Hampshire. The Tori is patterned after […]
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2019 Film Series: Libraries on the Big Screen – The Music Man (1962)
FeaturedThe Keene Public Library 30 Winter Street, Keene, NH, United StatesThursday, November 21. 6:30-9pm. Keene Public Library. Music Man (1962) Marian, the Librarian, is the only person in River City who sees through the fraudulent Harold Hill. She has access to printed proof of “Professor Hill’s” deception, but she loathes to reveal it as she is beginning to develop feelings for him.
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2019 Film Series: Libraries on the Big Screen – Party Girl (1995)
FeaturedThe Keene Public Library 30 Winter Street, Keene, NH, United StatesThursday, December 5. 6:30-9pm. Keene Public Library. Party Girl (1995) Airhead Mary gets a job in her local branch of the city library. Slowly, the routines at the library turn her into a near-obsessive, in love with the life-saving organizational principles of the Dewey Decimal System.
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Pop Up Exhibit: Toys I Have Loved
FeaturedHistorical Society of CheshireToys I Have Loved Pop Up Exhibit: Wednesday, December 11, 5:00 to 6:30 pm, Historical Society of Cheshire County, Exhibit Hall, 246 Main Street Keene NH Bring a favorite toy from your childhood to this temporary exhibit. Participants will write their own exhibit label and share why their toy is important to them. At the […]
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2019 Film Series: Libraries on the Big Screen – The Public (2018)
FeaturedThe Keene Public Library 30 Winter Street, Keene, NH, United StatesThursday, December 12. 6:30-9pm. Keene Public Library. Public (2018) About to be ejected into the cold, a group of homeless men refuse to leave the Cincinnati Public Library and barricade themselves inside. While fictional, The Public is a sensitive and interesting examination of the functions of public spaces.
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Book Launch Event : Iron Roads of the Monadnock Region
FeaturedHistorical Society of CheshireRailroad historians Bradford G. Blodget and Richard R. Richards, Jr. have been working on their railroad book, “Iron Roads of the Monadnock Region” for seven years in collaboration with the Historical Society. Blodget and Richards have meticulously researched the history of the railroads in the Region from the years 1847 to 2017 and the relationships […]
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Jennie Powers: The Woman Who Dares
FeaturedHistorical Society of CheshireJennie Powers: The Woman Who Dares Wednesday, January 22 6:30 pm Historical Society of Cheshire County Exhibit Hall. Jennie Powers was a Progressive Era woman who stood up against social vices in New Hampshire and Vermont in the early 20th century. She was a humane society agent in Keene, NH, from 1903-1936, and one of […]