Friday, 6/8 @ 2pm -- Intro to the Internet
Monday, 6/25 @ 12:30pm -- Intro to Microsoft Word
Friday, 7/13  @ 2pm -- Web Design Using Weebly.com
Friday, 7/27 @ 2pm -- Introduction to Microsoft Excel
Friday, 8/17 @ 2pm -- TV on the Internet

Sign up is required for each class.  Class sizes will be limited to 5 people.  Each class is free of charge.  To sign up:
Call:  744-3352
OR
Email:  librarian@townofbristolnh.org

Ongoing Children’s Programs @ the Library

First Pages Lapsit (birth-2):  Thursdays @10am

Bouncy Bookworms Preschool Story Time (ages 3-5):  Fridays @10am

Chapter Chatter (ages 6-8):  Wednesdays @ 3pm (finished until Fall 2012)

Summer Reading Program (school-aged children):
Wednesdays @ 10am
6/27-8/8

Donations gratefully accepted - no clothing, large furniture or appliances, please.  Donations can be dropped off at the Old Town Hall on the following dates from 10am -2pm:
5/14, 5/16, 5/19, 5/21, 5/23, 5/25

                                  For more information, please call 744-3352 or 744-6329

Third Monday Book Group
June 18th @ 10:00am & 4:00pm** 
A Vintage Affair  by Isabel Wolff

“When vintage clothing expert Phoebe Swift decides to abandon her career as a Sotheby’s auctioneer, she opens London’s Village Vintage, selling only the best recycled designer duds. However, it isn’t long before we discover that the cupcake dresses and alligator clutches that populate her quaint neighborhood shop aren’t Phoebe’s only baggage. Reeling from the death of a close friend and the subsequent collapse of her wedding engagement, Phoebe is in need of a change. She certainly loves the clothing she sells for its history, but it takes a new and profound friendship with the elderly client Mrs. Bell to show Phoebe to care for herself in the same way. Although the novel is sometimes predictable, UK best-seller Wolff keeps us entertained by sending a few courtiers Phoebe’s way and threading intriguing wartime historical fiction into Mrs. Bell’s backstory. Readers with a passion for couture fashion will appreciate (and feel vindicated by!) Wolff’s well-researched and intricate descriptions of beautiful, significant vintage pieces."

**Change in time for the evening group to 4pm**

Thursday, June 21st at 7 PM

Bristol Old Town Hall

“Baked Beans and Fried Clams:  How Food Defines a Region”
Presented by: Edie Clark

Baked beans, Indian pudding, fried clams, and lobster rolls…so many foods are distinctive to New England.  Does food have anything to say about who we are as a region, about who we are as New Englanders?  Bean-hole beans, johnnycakes, chocolate chips cookies, and pork pies - you can find them all over the country now, but they all originally came from New England like so many of the customs and more familiar to all.  The presentation is informative, humorous, and chock full of fascinating nuggets about the history of our regional foods.  It includes references to some of New England’s more famous foodies Fannie Farmer, Hayden Pearson, and Julia Child, and includes an analysis of how the changing times of New England have affected the way we eat.

Clark is from Dublin, NH and has a B.A. in Philosophy and English Literature, Arcadia University.  She has had a long career as editor, journalist, and essayist for book publishers and magazines, most notably Yankee Magazine; author of The Place He Made and Saturday Beans and Sunday Suppers:  Kitchen Stories from Mary’s Farm; worked in almost every aspect of writing, publishing and editing; teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

 

  This program is made possible by a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities Council and is sponsored by the Friends of the Minot-Sleeper Library & the Bristol Historical Society.