PHILIP READ MEMORIAL LIBRARY

• Books, magazines, audio books, videos, puzzles.
• Interlibrary loan, magazine article retrieval service. To see a list of magazines click here.
• Children's activities, story time, summer reading programs.
• Book discussion groups, other programming, displays.
• Meeting room for small groups (up to 20).
• Plainfield genealogy records.
• Plainfield news clipping files, local author collection, Cornish Art Colony records.
• Public computer, access to the Internet, CD-Rom, copier service.
• Annual book sale.
• Maxfield Parrish gift nook.
• Community resource and information center for town government information, trash stickers,
• Plain Facts, information from town organizations.
• Federal and state income tax forms.
• Resource and collection sharing with the Meriden Library, Kimball Union Academy, and Plainfield School.
• Member of New Hampshire State Library System and Librarians of the Upper Valley Co-op.

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PHILIP READ MEMORIAL LIBRARY

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.

Make a Splash—Read, our summer program was great fun. During the seven weeks of the program, the children who signed up read over 300 books. The participants had great fun making paper plate turtles and boats, decorating fans and murals; floating the boats in the wading pool (they really floated); and being rained on in their rain boots and umbrellas. Fred, a Peking duck made an appearance and delighted his audience. Anne Bonner won the raffle for reading water-related books and Norah and Claire Falcone won additional prizes. Thank you to Sarah and Gordon Gillens, Diane MacDonald, Katy Sheehan, Bernardina Webber and parents for their help.

D.B. Johnson presented a great story hour reading his new book Palazzo Inverso. It is always great fun to watch Don draw. The kids loved the upside-down plot of the book.

The Papermill Theater group again presented a wonderful series of children’s fairytales at the town hall. This play group always adds a nontraditional comedic twist to the plot of these traditional fairytales which adds to the fun.

Priscilla Eastman of Plainfield was the lucky winner of the quilt raffle. Thank you again to Ruthann Wheeler and Joyce Lundrigan for making this beautiful quilt.

Thank yous: To Paul Swigert for donating a Kodak slide projector and carousels; this will be useful for programming; to Dennis Girouard for painting our new sign and Greg Davini for the design, Win Spencer for the lights and Rob Taylor for the lettering. To the Plainfield Community Church for a donation to the building fund—from their 4 th of July collection.

The 4 th of July Library Float (State Fair) was spectacular. Thank you to Dennis for making the moving ferris wheel and to Bernardina and Amy Brady for the rest of the decorations. The Falcone family was a great help. Dan sang “State Fair” and another song the entire length of the parade. Children riding or pulling/leading animals were Ella, Norah, Hannah and Claire Falcone, Emily and Samantha Brady, Cecilia Webber, and Ari and Kailey Thompson. Especially wonderful were the walking sheep and the chickens and the pig the kids were pulling in wagons.

The Annual Book and Bake Sale is on Saturday and Sunday, September 18 and 19, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Plainfield Town Hall. Books may be brought to the library anytime. Baked goods would be appreciated and these can be brought to the library the day before the sale or to the town hall on Saturday morning. Helpers are needed to move books to the town hall and to set up the hall. We will be moving books on Saturday, September 11, at 9 a.m. until finished. We will be setting up and sorting all week. Please call the library if you can help. We have a great selection of books so far. Visit the library this month and receive a coupon for a free book.

The Book DiscussionGroup will begin meeting again on the fourth Monday of each month—next, September 27 at 7 p.m. Everyone is welcome.

The library will be closed on Labor Day, September 6.

The regular monthly trustee meeting will be on Monday, September 13 at 7 p.m. There will be a joint Meriden/Plainfield Trustee meeting with the selectmen on September 8 at 7 p.m. at the Plainfield Library. All meetings are open to the public.

“Care Advantage” is a free publication for caregivers of people with Alzheimer ’s disease. It is available free at the library and is provided by the Alzheimer’s Foundation of American.

New DVDs: Too many to list.

New Books: Lots of new books came in during the summer. Here are some. Nonfiction: Bonhoeffer, Pastor, Martyr, Prophet-Eric Metaxas, This I Believe-Jay Allison (This is the KUA all-school read for this year.), Teach Yourself Facebook in 10 Minutes, The Paralysis Resource Guide; Fiction: Live to Tell-Lisa Gardner, As Husbands Go-Susan Isaacs, Beachcombers-Nancy Thayer, The Cookbook Collector-Allegra Goodman, Corduroy Mansions-Alexander McCall Smith, Fly Away Home-Jennifer Weiner, The Glass Rainbow-James Lee Burke, Spies of the Balkans-”Alan Furst, Spy-Clive Cussler, Star Island-Carl Hiaasen, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet-David Mitchell, The Nobodies Album-Carolyn Parkhurst, Private-James Patterson, and many more.

Nancy Norwalk, Director

SPECIAL VISITORS

The visitor is Linda Michelin, childrens author, she read her book, "ZuZu's Wishing Cake" at the library in November 2006. The book is illustrated by her husband D. B. Johnaon, author of the "Henry Hikes to Fitchburg" books. ( Autographed books are avaiable at the Library)

The Library will display different visitors here as they come to visit.

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PHILIP READ LIBRARY DATA

1088 Route 12a
Plainfield, NH  03781-9801
(603) 675-6866

County: Sullivan
Population of Area: 2,420

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Librarian: Nancy Norwalk
Aides: Ruth Stalker, Diane Rogers
Trustees:
Bernadina Webber
Anita K. Brown
Dennis Girouard