National Library Week programs coming!!

National Library Week, April 15-21, is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries, librarians and library workers and to promote library use and support. There are several special programs scheduled at the Dover Public Library:

Ø Monday, April 16, 7pm: “Climate Change 101 and What You Can Do (or How I Lost 20,000 Pounds and You Can Too!)"
Our climate is changing are all around us: glaciers and polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, heat waves, extreme storms, or droughts occur more often, and more species are becoming endangered. While it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and powerless to do anything, Julia Dundorf and Denise Blaha, program directors of the NH Carbon Challenge at UNH, will supply all the information necessary to make small changes in your household that will substantially reduce your greenhouse gas emissions. Learn about the Carbon Challenge and pledge to lose 20,000 pounds (of carbon that is)!

Ø Wednesday, April 18, 7pm: “The Coming of Aging: Learning to Live from the Inside Out"
Hear how Jean Shula, author of the book, “The Coming of Aging”, completed a year’s cross-country camping journey, facing unfamiliar situations and integrating past and present with the valuable lessons that only come as we age. The richest experiences of life come with maturity, which translates into collective wisdom. If youth is a time for learning about the world and how to maneuver in it, growing maturity is about learning to honor the interior lessons learned. Jean spent 20 years as a psychotherapist and hospice co-director before taking her camping sabbatical. She currently lives in Dover, pursuing her new career as writer, speaker, workshop leader, Transitional Life Coach and grandmother.

Ø Thursday, April 19, 7pm: “Life at the Lincoln House 1916--1921”, a Dover Historical Society program by William Minnick
Travel back 90 years to when Mr. Minnick’s grandfather, John F. Minnick, lived in the grand Corporation House (aka the Lincoln House) on Locust Street. John Minnick was the Agent for the Cocheco Division of the Pacific Mills, and he and his wife and their four children lived in the Agent’s house during his tenure as chief executive of the mills. The program will include stories, photographs, and reminiscences passed on in the Minnick family.

All programs are free and open to the public.