Friday, April 22
On Friday, April 22, at 6:30 PM, Danbury will celebrate National Poetry Month with its Second Annual Poetry and Pastries. Last year was great fun so you won’t want to miss this event. This is an opportunity for local residents—young and old—to once again, read poetry, their own or favorite verses by other authors. Readers […]
Submit an original poem about Kearsarge Valle
The Center for the Arts~ Lake Sunapee Area is announcing a call to New Hampshire Poets! CFA is inviting New Hampshire poets to create a poem with the following theme: Where the Wild Things are in the Kearsarge Valley! This theme challenges the writer to create an original poem which may be serious, humorous, and/or […]
Adult Fiction Breakdown, Jonathan Kellerman Single, Carefree, Mellow, Katherine Heiny Assassin, Clive Cussler The Wolves, Alex Berenson Now May You Weep, Deborah Crombie A Man Called Ove, Frederick Backman Swans of Fifth Avenue, Deckle Edge Adult Nonfiction Mindset: the New Psychology of Success, Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. Anchor and Flares, Kate Braestrup Good Garden Bugs, Mary M. […]
Adult Fiction Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff Warriors of the Storm, Bernard Cornwell Revival, Stephen King Fancy Dancer, Fern Michaels Guest Room, Chris Bohjalian The Bitter Season, Tami Hoag My Name is Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout Landline, Rainbow Rowell Adult Non-Fiction Girl in the Woods, Aspen Matis The Five Love Languages, Gary Chapman The Five Love Languages […]
Doors open at 6 PM on March 18
Connecticut-based folk-rock singer-songwriter Andrea Paquin will headline the cast of performers on Friday evening, March 18, at the monthly Andover Community Coffeehouse concert offered in the Highland Lake Grange Hall in East Andover. The event, which begins at 7 PM, is open to the public at no charge; donations are gratefully accepted. Paquin’s songs “tell […]
Three books to check out
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, champion of women’s rights (and men’s, as she would say) is the subject of Notorious RBG, an enjoyably readable biography filled with opinion excerpts and marginalia from her landmark arguments in the cause of equal rights. In Fuzzy Mud, children’s author Louis Sachar, famous for his earlier Holes, writes […]
Donate to keep it in Andover!
Several years ago, a group of five Andover ladies who enjoyed their hobby of rug hooking – Julie Mayo, Marge Leber, Sandra Graves, Grace Stetson, and Pat Cutter – conceived, designed, and created a pictorial rug that features 12 well-known buildings and places in Andover. The original intent was to raise money for the […]
February 26 at 1:30 and 7:30 PM
Ignatius Mackenzie Ossum (“I. M.” Ossum) is a modern-day renaissance man: part scientist (but not “mad” about it), part magician, part showman, part curator of the curious, and all fun! He is coming to the Franklin Opera House on Friday, February 26, at 1:30 and 7:30 PM. Taking scientist and author Arthur C. Clarke at his […]
Learn Spanish; read 1,000 books
Learn/practice Spanish Ongoing class on Mondays from 6:30 to 7:30 PM. Informal instruction and conversation for beginners and those with some experience. Newcomers are welcome any time. Four-week series, $48; drop-in, $15 per session. Bachelder Library in East Andover. Pre-school Story Time Parents are invited to bring pre-schoolers to the Andover Library for Story Time on Wednesdays, 10 […]
Rehearse on Mondays at 6:30 PM in Franklin
A Franklin choral group, Three Rivers Singers, would welcome new soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone voices. This budding group has performed for local events and is eager to grow its membership. Rehearsals take place on Mondays at 6:30 PM at Inspiration Music on River Street. Contact Christine Dzujna at 934-7163 for more information.