Friday, October 25th starting at 7:00 p.m.
Harrisville Public Library
Saturday, August 31st
10:00 a.m.
“A Nation Once Again”: Ireland's Road
to Independence, 1169-1999
Presenter: Mary C.
Kelly
Centuries of rebellion and political
turmoil make up Ireland’s long campaign for nationhood. Since the 1100s,
ancient Irish folk traditions and monastic settlements preserved
Gaelic culture through a succession
of Viking, Norman and British colonization waves. This
presentation explores a storied history
of struggle from the Gaelic chieftains to the
Ireland of today, using contemporary texts and colorful
illustrations depicting centuries of leadership,
military confrontation, and political transition. From Strongbow to
the IRA, and from Wolfe Tone’s United Irishmen to the tense drama of the 1916
Rising, we encounter the key players, contending
traditions, and political forces that finally made Ireland
“A Nation Once Again.”
Free! All are welcome!
Harrisville Public
Library
Saturday, March 30th
10:00 a.m.
FREE!
All are welcome!
Harnessing History: On the Trail of New Hampshire's State
Dog, the Chinook
This program looks
at how dog sledding developed in New Hampshire and how the Chinook played a
major role in this story. Explaining how man and his relationship with dogs won
out over machines on several famous polar expeditions, Bob Cottrell covers the history
of Arthur Walden and his Chinooks, the State Dog of New Hampshire.
Bob Cottrell holds an MA from the Winterthur Program in Early
American Culture in Delaware. The founding director of the Remick Country
Doctor Museum in Tamworth, he is now the curator of the Henney History Room at
the Conway Public Library, a board member at the Conway Historical Society, and
president ex-officio of the Tamworth Historical Society. He serves as an
independent history and museum consultant.
Friday, February 23rd at 7:00 p.m.
Movie Night. Friday, January 26th at 7:00 p.m.
Library World (our OPAC) has changed their interface. Please use this to access our catalog: http://opac.libraryworld.com/opac/signin.php
Movie Night will be a week earlier than usual this month, due to the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
Friday, November 17th we will be showing "Barbie" rated PG-13.
Watch the trailer here.
Beginning next Wednesday, 11/15/23
Kris Finnegan, our Children's Librarian and Wednesday morning person, is cutting down to 2 hours per week. She will be here on Wednesdays from 10-12.
Mary Kronenwetter presents Corbin’s Animal Garden on
September 16 th at 10am.
In the late 1800s, the banking, railroad, and real estate mogul Austin
Corbin returned to his hometown in Newport, New Hampshire. He built
a grand estate and bought out his neighbors’ farms to create an 22,000
acre wildlife game preserve stocked with boar, bison, bighorn sheep,
antelope, elk, Chinese pheasant, and other imported animals. The grounds
eventually became a prestigious private hunting park and hosted illustrious
guests including Theodore Roosevelt, the Prince of Wales, Cornelius
Vanderbilt, Joe Dimaggio, Rudyard Kipling, and Augustus Saint Gaudens.
This illustrated slideshow features archival images and a discussion of the
complicated history and legacy of New Hampshire’s own American Gilded
Age robber baron. The talk will also highlight the important legacy of the
role the Corbin family and park naturalist Ernest Baynes played in the
saving of the American bison from extinction.
This program is free and open to the public.
Due to multiple issues, we have a new email address for the library.
harrisvillenhlibrary@gmail.com
Movie Night. Friday, April 28th at 7:00. A Man Called Otto, starring Tom Hanks, rated PG-13. This will be the last Movie Night until fall.
Friday, March 31 at 7:00 p.m. we will be showing "The Banshees of Inisherin".
This film is rated "R".
It is a well-done movie with great acting, but is NOT a "happy" story.
April is National Poetry Month!
Please join us for a Poetry Celebration at the library on Saturday, April 15th from 10-11.
Bring a poem (or 2) that you have written, or that you enjoy reading.
We have several published poets in town and many lovers of poetry, as well.
Friday, Feb. 24 at 7:00 p.m. we will be showing the movie Till, rated PG-13.
The true story of Mamie Till-Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who was brutally lynched in 1955 while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.
Friday, January 27 at 7:00 p.m. we will be showing "Death on the Nile" (2022) starring Kenneth Branagh. Rated PG-13.
Friday, December 30th from 7-9
Where the Crawdads Sing, based on the novel by Delia Owens Rated PG-13
Family Friendly Movie Night
Friday, Sept. 30th at 7:00 p.m.
"The Secret of Roan Inish".
The Secret of Roan Inish is a 1994 independent fantasy-adventure film written and directed by John Sayles. It is based on the 1957 novel Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry, by Rosalie K. Fry.[2][3]
It is centered on the Irish and Orcadian folklores of selkies—seals that can shed their skins to become human. The story, set on the west coast of Ulster in the north-west of Ireland, is about Fiona, a young girl who is sent to live with her grandparents and her cousin Eamon near the island of Roan Inish, where the selkies are rumored to reside. It is a family legend that her younger brother was swept away in his infancy and raised by a selkie.
One of my favorite movies! Rated PG.
Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0niI55VeDA
Synopsis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_Roan_Inish
