PHILIP READ MEMORIAL LIBRARY NEWS

Hours: Mon. 1-9 p.m.; Wed. 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Fri. 1-5 p.m., Sat. 9-noon.

Phone: 603-675-6866

E-mail: plfdlib@mvgalaxy.com; web site: http://homepage.fcgnetworks.net/plfdlib.

Trash stickers, Lebanon landfill tickets, town histories, trail maps and town maps sold here.

Museum Passes: Currier Art Museum, Windsor Precision Museum.

Available: public computers, Internet, wireless connection, downloadable audio and e-books, Kill-A-Watt Meters.

March was just as stormy as February. It didn’t slow us down much; although, we did have to close early during the power outage, as it got too dark to see.

Libraries have been in the news recently. There is a great article by Edie Clark in the March/April issue of Yankee Magazine, titled “The Most Important Building in Town.” The AAA magazine, Northern New England Journey also has an article on libraries titled “Shelf Life.” Both articles celebrate small town libraries. Read them at your small-town library.

Federal Tax Forms are still available.

Our Book Discussion for February and March was quite difficult to achieve. It had to be postponed three times due to storms. Thank you to The Turning Points Network for leading the discussion on The Gift of Fear. The Book Discussion on April 25, at 7 p.m., will be The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. Come and join in; books are available at the library.

Spring is here and it’s time to begin our yearly schedule of cleaning up Rt. 12A. The Adopt-a-Highway Program requires four cleanups a year on our two-mile stretch of 12A. The first scheduled cleanup is the weekend of April 30. It’s an easy walk and good exercise. Please call the library if you would like to join us.

Our Easter Story Hour will be on Saturday, April 16 at 10 a.m. Thank you to Kim Moss for hosting a great story hour in March for National Nutrition Month.

Plainfield’s Police Chief, Paul Roberts, will visit the library on Saturday, April 30, at 10 a.m., for a special program on Fingerprinting. He will talk about fingerprints and take your child’s fingerprints for you to take home.

Upcoming on May 11, Nancy Kilgore, a former resident of Freeman Hill, will be having a reading of her newly published novel, Sea Level. Sea Level is a novel about a small town in Virginia in 1980 and its new woman minister. It is a story about life and the real ways we learn to live in a community. Nancy now lives in Hanover and is a psychotherapist as well as a Presbyterian minister. Join us for an interesting evening.

National Library Week is April 10-16. Join us for refreshments and good reading all week.

We welcome Kim Moss as the new trustee on our Joint Library Board. Thank you to Dennis Girouard for his three years on the Plainfield Board. Dennis accomplished a great deal during his tenure. He repaved the original front walk, built the new sign (donating his time and materials for both) and arranged the construction of the storage shed. Dennis also did a lot of heavy moving and book carrying, especially for the book sales, which I very much appreciated. As secretary he kept accurate minutes and his expertise was welcome on many matters.

Thank you to the families of Kate Gauthier and Nancy Evans for designating memorial gifts to the library. The donations are very much appreciated. Kate was a library trustee for many years and Nancy and her husband used the libraries a great deal. Both were avid readers.

New Movies: “True Grit” (the original), “Rooster Cogburn” (the sequel to “True Grit”), “Dennis the Menace,” “Toy Story 3,” “Burlesque,” “Red,” “The Social Network,” “Morning Glory, “ “The Tourist,” and many others.

New Books: Reference: Weather America (US weather data for the past 30 years for all states); Fiction: Complaints-Ian Rankin, Treachery in Death-J.D. Robb, A Heartbeat Away-Michael Palmer, The Jungle-Clive Cussler; Nonfiction: When the World Calls, the Inside Story of 50 Years of the Peace Corps-Stanley Meisler, Tough Without a Gun (Humphrey Bogart)-Stefan Kanfer, and many others on order.

Nancy Norwalk, Director