RIVERS: Bringing NH to Life

Last night at Dover's City Council meeting, we were pleased to formally accept a copy of a wonderful new 200+ page curriculum created by staff at The Children's Museum of New Hampshire. Designed for K-5th grade, "RIVERS: Bringing New Hampshire to Life" leads teachers and their students to explore our state's historical and natural story, using lives along the river as a unifying theme.

The Dover Public Library was pleased to be involved in this effort by contributing many historical photographs of the river and mills, as well as some historical essays about 19th century immigrant life and working in the factories.

This curriculum is an important new resource for Dover and New Hampshire history and complements the Museum's extraordinary Cochecosystem exhibit. To see "RIVERS", you may visit the library to examine the printed copy, or you may view it online at:
http://www.childrens-museum.org/cmnh/programs/default.aspx?id=368

We hope this is the first of many such cooperative efforts between the Public Library and The Children's Museum as we have many of the same goals: education, enrichment, enlightenment and entertainment. As many as already said, we are so happy that The Children's Museum of New Hampshire has relocated in Dover and that they welcomed over 130,000 visitors in their first year here! Congratulations!