Upcoming Programs (online)
All program listed below will be held online through Zoom. It's easy to take part in these programs, just follow the instructions below! You can use a computer, laptop, smartphone, tablet, or call in using your telephone.
To ensure a safe environment for our community, the library now asks that you email librarian@townofbristolnh.org or call 603-530-1764 to request the link, meeting ID, and password to join an event. You can do this anytime prior to the event. It is recommended you request access at least 48 hours prior to the event if possible.
All program listed below will be held online through Zoom. It's easy to take part in these programs, just follow the instructions below! You can use a computer, laptop, smartphone, tablet, or call in using your telephone.
To ensure a safe environment for our community, the library now asks that you email librarian@townofbristolnh.org or call 603-530-1764 to request the link, meeting ID, and password to join an event. You can do this anytime prior to the event. It is recommended you request access at least 48 hours prior to the event if possible.
Poetry Night
Thursday, March 4 at 6:30pm
The community is invited to join us for an evening of sharing poetry - your own original poetry or your published favorites. All ages welcome.
This event will be held on Zoom. Attendees may join online or call in using a telephone To request the link, meeting ID, and password or telephone number, please email minotsleeperlibrary@gmail.com or call 603-744-3352.
Nonfiction Book Group
Thursday, March 11 at 3pm
Join us for a discussion of the book "On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer's" by Greg O'Brien. To request a copy of the book, call 603-744-3352 or email minotsleeperlibrary@gmail.com. The discussion will be held online.
Summary: This is a book about living with Alzheimer's, not dying with it. It is a book about hope, faith, and humor--a prescription far more powerful than the conventional medication available today to fight this disease.
Alzheimer's is the sixth leading cause of death in the US--and the only one of these diseases on the rise.
More than 5 million Americans have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's or a related dementia; about 35 million people worldwide.
Greg O'Brien, an award-winning investigative reporter, has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's and is one of those faceless numbers. Acting on long-term memory and skill coupled with well-developed journalistic grit, O'Brien decided to tackle the disease and his imminent decline by writing frankly about the journey. O'Brien is a master storyteller. His story is naked, wrenching, and soul searching for a generation and their loved ones about to cross the threshold of this death in slow motion. On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer's is a trail-blazing roadmap for a generation--both a "how to" for fighting a disease, and a "how not" to give up!
To ensure a safe environment for our community, the library now asks that you email librarian@townofbristolnh.org or call 603-5744-3352 to request the link, meeting ID, and password to join an event. You can do this anytime prior to the event. It is recommended you request access at least 48 hours prior to the event if possible.
Third Monday
March 15, 2021 at 10 am
Join us for a discussion of the book "All The Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr. To request a copy of the book, call 603-744-3352 or email minotsleeperlibrary@gmail.com. The discussion will be held online.
Summary : From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
To ensure a safe environment for our community, the library now asks that you email librarian@townofbristolnh.org or call 603-5744-3352 to request the link, meeting ID, and password to join an event. You can do this anytime prior to the event. It is recommended you request access at least 48 hours prior to the event if possible.
Regenerative Reads Book Club Kick-Off: "A Sand County Almanac"
March 15 at 6:30pm
Join the library in partnership with the Bristol Sustainability Committee for the third and final of our discussions about one of the most inspiring and noteworthy conservation books of all times. We’ll be discussing Part III of "A Sand County Almanac." Sign up for this book club at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-3sTIXFsfGk-RGDyKXMcrE259InOkJxUvy94N86L-8o_htg/viewform!
*Note* Extra copies of "A Sand County Almanac" are available at the Minot-Sleeper Library and can be picked up curbside if you’d like to borrow a copy! Call the library at 603-744-3352 or email minotsleeperlibrary@gmail.com.
Classic Book Group
Tuesday, March 16 at 6:30pm
Join us for a discussion of the book "Go Tell it on the Mountain" by James Baldwin . To request a copy of the book, call 603-744-3352 or email minotsleeperlibrary@gmail.com. The discussion will be held online.
Summary: first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.
To ensure a safe environment for our community, the library now asks that you email librarian@townofbristolnh.org or call 603-5744-3352 to request the link, meeting ID, and password to join an event. You can do this anytime prior to the event. It is recommended you request access at least 48 hours prior to the event if possible.
Movie Group
Tuesday, March 23 at 6:30 pm
Join us for a discussion of the film "Daughters of the Dust". I capture the castle can be seen on Kanopy. A copy can be picked up from the library. The discussion will be held online.
Summary: Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk-ways were maintained well into the 20th Century and were one of the last bastions of these mores in America. Set in 1902.
To ensure a safe environment for our community, the library now asks that you email librarian@townofbristolnh.org or call 603-5744-3352 to request the link, meeting ID, and password to join an event. You can do this anytime prior to the event. It is recommended you request access at least 48 hours prior to the event if possible.
Knot Only Knitters
Every Monday from 2:30-4:30pm
Join knitters and other fiber arts enthusiasts for a virtual meet-up and conversation every Monday afternoon. All are welcome to take part.
To ensure a safe environment for our community, the library now asks that you email librarian@townofbristolnh.org or call 603-744-3352 to request the link, meeting ID, and password to join an event. You can do this anytime prior to the event. It is recommended you request access at least 48 hours prior to the event if possible.
Thursday, March 4 at 6:30pm
The community is invited to join us for an evening of sharing poetry - your own original poetry or your published favorites. All ages welcome.
This event will be held on Zoom. Attendees may join online or call in using a telephone To request the link, meeting ID, and password or telephone number, please email minotsleeperlibrary@gmail.com or call 603-744-3352.
Nonfiction Book Group
Thursday, March 11 at 3pm
Join us for a discussion of the book "On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer's" by Greg O'Brien. To request a copy of the book, call 603-744-3352 or email minotsleeperlibrary@gmail.com. The discussion will be held online.
Summary: This is a book about living with Alzheimer's, not dying with it. It is a book about hope, faith, and humor--a prescription far more powerful than the conventional medication available today to fight this disease.
Alzheimer's is the sixth leading cause of death in the US--and the only one of these diseases on the rise.
More than 5 million Americans have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's or a related dementia; about 35 million people worldwide.
Greg O'Brien, an award-winning investigative reporter, has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's and is one of those faceless numbers. Acting on long-term memory and skill coupled with well-developed journalistic grit, O'Brien decided to tackle the disease and his imminent decline by writing frankly about the journey. O'Brien is a master storyteller. His story is naked, wrenching, and soul searching for a generation and their loved ones about to cross the threshold of this death in slow motion. On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer's is a trail-blazing roadmap for a generation--both a "how to" for fighting a disease, and a "how not" to give up!
To ensure a safe environment for our community, the library now asks that you email librarian@townofbristolnh.org or call 603-5744-3352 to request the link, meeting ID, and password to join an event. You can do this anytime prior to the event. It is recommended you request access at least 48 hours prior to the event if possible.
Third Monday
March 15, 2021 at 10 am
Join us for a discussion of the book "All The Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr. To request a copy of the book, call 603-744-3352 or email minotsleeperlibrary@gmail.com. The discussion will be held online.
Summary : From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
To ensure a safe environment for our community, the library now asks that you email librarian@townofbristolnh.org or call 603-5744-3352 to request the link, meeting ID, and password to join an event. You can do this anytime prior to the event. It is recommended you request access at least 48 hours prior to the event if possible.
Regenerative Reads Book Club Kick-Off: "A Sand County Almanac"
March 15 at 6:30pm
Join the library in partnership with the Bristol Sustainability Committee for the third and final of our discussions about one of the most inspiring and noteworthy conservation books of all times. We’ll be discussing Part III of "A Sand County Almanac." Sign up for this book club at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-3sTIXFsfGk-RGDyKXMcrE259InOkJxUvy94N86L-8o_htg/viewform!
*Note* Extra copies of "A Sand County Almanac" are available at the Minot-Sleeper Library and can be picked up curbside if you’d like to borrow a copy! Call the library at 603-744-3352 or email minotsleeperlibrary@gmail.com.
Classic Book Group
Tuesday, March 16 at 6:30pm
Join us for a discussion of the book "Go Tell it on the Mountain" by James Baldwin . To request a copy of the book, call 603-744-3352 or email minotsleeperlibrary@gmail.com. The discussion will be held online.
Summary: first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.
To ensure a safe environment for our community, the library now asks that you email librarian@townofbristolnh.org or call 603-5744-3352 to request the link, meeting ID, and password to join an event. You can do this anytime prior to the event. It is recommended you request access at least 48 hours prior to the event if possible.
Movie Group
Tuesday, March 23 at 6:30 pm
Join us for a discussion of the film "Daughters of the Dust". I capture the castle can be seen on Kanopy. A copy can be picked up from the library. The discussion will be held online.
Summary: Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk-ways were maintained well into the 20th Century and were one of the last bastions of these mores in America. Set in 1902.
To ensure a safe environment for our community, the library now asks that you email librarian@townofbristolnh.org or call 603-5744-3352 to request the link, meeting ID, and password to join an event. You can do this anytime prior to the event. It is recommended you request access at least 48 hours prior to the event if possible.
Knot Only Knitters
Every Monday from 2:30-4:30pm
Join knitters and other fiber arts enthusiasts for a virtual meet-up and conversation every Monday afternoon. All are welcome to take part.
To ensure a safe environment for our community, the library now asks that you email librarian@townofbristolnh.org or call 603-744-3352 to request the link, meeting ID, and password to join an event. You can do this anytime prior to the event. It is recommended you request access at least 48 hours prior to the event if possible.
