With the end of the school year and the summer solstice approaching, it must surely be summer!
There will be a huge Fourth of July Book Sale in Proctor’s Stone Chapel. On Sunday, July 3, the book sale will be open for Andover residents only from 5 to 7 PM. On Monday, July 4, the book sale will be open to the general public from 7 AM to 2 PM.
We are very busy sorting books and getting them ready for the sale. For this reason, we cannot accept any donations of books until after the sale. If you can donate cardboard boxes or are interested in helping sort books for the sale, please let Lee know.
Our last Fourth of July Book Sale was in 2019, so we have three years worth of donated books for you to peruse. This is our biggest fund-raiser; please be sure to come, take lots of books home with you, and make generous donations!
There will be lots of summer activities at the libraries.
Students may sign up for summer reading and receive a raffle ticket every time they check out reading materials. At the end of the summer we will be drawing names for prizes. The more you read, the greater your chances of winning a raffle prize.
On Saturday, July 23 (with the 30th as a rain date) from 9:30 to 11:30 AM, therapy donkeys will be visiting the Andover Library. All patrons are invited to visit with the donkeys. Younger patrons are invited to read to the donkeys, or brush them, or take them on a short stroll.
The donkeys will be coming to us from the wonderful organization: Road to Independence, a pre-vocation training program to provide a wider variety of opportunities and experiences for individuals with differing abilities.
The Andover Libraries would very much like to give them a generous donation for their visit, but we’ll need your help. There will be donation jars at both libraries for the donkeys and the Road to Independence.
Please let us know if you are interested in spending time with a donkey. If there is enough interest, we will set up a sign-up sheet so that families will be assigned a time to visit with the donkeys and there will not be a long wait time. Please visit RTI-Aurora.org/farm-program for more information about their program.
Finally, as we have done the last few years, we will organize a field trip to a New Hampshire Museum that supports this summer’s national reading theme: “An Ocean of Possibilities.” We are hoping to go later in August, so at this point details are still up in the air, but we would like to go to Odiorne Point State Park and the Seacoast Science Center, located inside the park.
The Library will cover the cost of the park and Museum entrance for children, and we ask that the families cover the cost of the park fee and the admission fee for adults. Stay tuned for more details.
Please don’t forget that we are still WABL walking! Join us at the Bachelder Library on Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:30 AM for a walk up and down the hills of East Andover.
We have State Park passes! You do need to plan ahead and request the pass at least one day before you plan to go to the park.
Please feel free to let Lee or Priscilla know of any books you would like to have us purchase for the libraries.