Calling All Peeps to the Dover Public Library!

The Dover Public Library is looking for creative Dover residents, Dover students, or Dover Public Library cardholders to enter our eighth annual “Peeps Show” Contest this March.

Here’s how it works: Build a diorama using Peeps of any color or species in a standard size shoe box. The theme is anything literary; recreate a scene from your favorite book, play, or poem. The first 16 entries will receive a free plush Peep bunny or chick!

Children ages 2 – 6 are invited to enter the Kids Division, and ages 7 – 10 may enter in the Youth Division. Peeps, er, people 11- 16 may enter the Teen Division, while those 17 or older are invited to compete in the Adult Division.On the back of your shoe box, please include your name, address, phone number, and title of your “Peeps Show”.

All Peeps displays may be dropped off at the Dover Public Library beginning Monday, March 14 through Saturday, March 26. The Peeps will be displayed in the library for all to enjoy. The winner of each division will receive a $25 Target gift card, courtesy of the Friends of the Library. Prizes will be awarded on Monday afternoon, March 28. 

Peeps should be picked up by 5pm on Saturday, April 2. All Peeps not picked up by the deadline will be discarded or eaten!  For more information, call the Reference Desk at the Dover Public Library: 516-6082.

Ross Bachelder to Play at Library!

The Dover Public Library will host an informal recital of flute music performed by Berwick artist, writer and musician Ross Bachelder, on Sunday, March 6 at 3:00 PM. Accompanying him at the recital will be well-known Greenland, NH pianist Cheryl Lynne Stromksi. Writer, artist, and musician Ross Bachelder, who lives in Berwick, has been performing as a musician and exhibiting his unorthodox and playful drawings, paintings, found object assemblages and photographs in galleries in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts for many years.  For information about Ross Bachelder’s March 6 recital, you may call Dover Public Library at 603-516-6050 or write Ross Bachelder at artsmultiple@gmail.com.

Don’t miss this this wonderful event!

Free Event During School Vacation Week

Unfortunately, due to lack of interest we are cancelling the 6th & 7th Grade STEMbassador event during school vacation. However, we have increased the age range for the Design a Theme Park Ride event, and increased the number of kids we can accept. See below for a full description:

Design a Theme Park Ride is an activity for 4th & 7th graders:
Thursday, February 25 @ 1pm

In groups, students will design a theme park ride that will drop as fast as possible while keeping riders safely inside the ride using various materials provided. There will be other constraints to make the design activity challenging. With the help of UNH engineers, students will learn the various steps required for good engineering - ask, imagine, build, test, and improve. This activity will address mechanical engineering, designing, teamwork, and time management.

This event is limited to 25 students so sign-up is necessary. Sign-up  in-person, by phone (603-516-6050), or online.

This event is generously sponsored by the STEMbassadors from the University of New Hampshire's College of Engineering and Physical Sciences.

Register now for FREE 3-part Organic Gardening Course

Free Organic Gardening Course

at the Dover Public Library March 7, 14, & 21

   The Dover Public Library is pleased to offer a free, comprehensive 3-part organic gardening course on consecutive Monday nights, March 7, 14 and 21, from 6-8pm in the Library’s Lecture Hall.  The course, totaling six hours over the three nights, will include practical tips on how to create a new garden, soil preparation, seed starting, planting techniques, container gardening, cultural techniques during the growing season (such as watering, fertilizing, and pest and weed control), how plants and soil interact, succession planting, planting multiple crops in the same space at the same time, how to compost, crop rotation, cover cropping, and mycorrhizobials. 

     The sessions will also include discussions about our existing industrial food production system, including pesticides, genetically modified seeds, seed labeling and supplier concentration, globalization and famine, organic certification, and regulatory capture.

    The instructor is Vincent Cirasole from Rochester. He has taught physical education and organic gardening in New York before relocating to the Granite State in 2013. He is also a Master Gardener, a commercial vegetable grower, and organic growing enthusiast. Over a period of years, Cirasole developed this tri-part course which has proven to be fascinating and popular with students. Reference material and sources of additional information will be distributed to all participants at no charge, but pre-registration is required.  Interested gardeners may call the Dover Public Library at 603-516-6050 to sign up for Mr. Cirasole’s course, or you may register online at http://www.eventkeeper.com/code/events.cfm?curOrg=DOVER.

Free Flute/Piano Recital Sunday, March 6, 2pm

The Dover Public Library will host an informal recital of flute music performed by artist, writer, and musician Ross Bachelder, on Sunday, March 6 at 2pm. The public is cordially invited to attend. Accompanying him will be well-known Greenland, NH pianist Cheryl Lynne Stromski.

     Ross Bachelder  lives in Berwick, Maine and travels frequently to perform, to paint and to photograph. He has performed in musical theatre as well as solo as “The Flute Guy”. He has exhibited his drawings, paintings, assemblages, and photographs in area galleries for many years. He was the founder and coordinator of the KAA Seacoast Moderns (within the Kittery Art Association), and the coordinator of The Abstract Artists Group of New England (within the Newburyport Art Association).

     In 1980 he founded Artful Endeavors, a consulting service for creative people of every kind. In 1984, he founded the Berwick Young People’s Theater, where he wrote and produced musical comedies. For twelve years he managed the Frame Shop and Franklin Gallery at Ben Franklin Crafts in Rochester. He is currently writing a book, “Happy Dawg Walks The Sad Man: The Remarkably Varied Adventures of a Confirmed Arts Multiple”.

     Bachelder’s accompanist, Cheryl Lynne Stromski, has a very successful career  as an in-demand pianist, pit orchestra musician, church-based Musical Director, and highly respected  accompanist. She and Ross have performed together at many Seacoast area events and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

     Stromski has performed in Italy, Ireland, and at a Vatican mass. She was the Music Director of the Prescott Park Arts Festival for eight years, and is currently the Minister of Music at the Stratham Community Church UCC.  She is studying for her Master of Divinity degree at Andover-Newton Theological School.

     For  more information about this free recital, please call the Dover Public Library at 603-516-6050 or write Ross Bachelder at artsmultiple@gmail.com.

The Library Will be Closed Monday

 

The Library will be closed Monday, February 15, in honor of Presidents' Day.

 

Job opening for Building Maintenance Mechanic at Dover Public Library

February Vacation Events

The STEMbassadors, from UNH's College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, will be at the Library on Thursday, February 25 offering programs for 4th thru 7th graders (see descriptions below). The activities are limited to 20 kids in each group and registration is now open. http://www.dover.nh.gov/…/c…/library/events/stem-events.html
 
Design a Theme Park Ride is an activity for 4th & 5th graders:
Thursday, February 25 @ 1pm
In groups, students will design a theme park ride that will drop as fast as possible while keeping riders safely inside the ride using various materials provided. There will be other constraints to make the design activity challenging. With the help of UNH engineers, students will learn the various steps required for good engineering - ask, imagine, build, test, and improve. This activity will address mechanical engineering, designing, teamwork, and time management.

Does it Float? is an activity for 6th & 7th graders:
Thursday, February 25 @ 1pm
In this group hands-on activity students will learn about buoyancy and design by building and testing tinfoil boats in water tanks. Students will be called upon to design and build their boat to hold the most weight while remaining afloat.

Have You Joined a Book Group Yet?

The library has two book groups now! The inaugural meeting of the morning book club will be Thursday, February 4 at 10am. We will be discussing Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman. The morning book group will meet on the first Thursday of the month at 10am in the Trustees Room of the Library.
 
If evening works better for you, the evening book group meets on the 3rd Monday of the month, at 6:30pm in the Trustees Room of the Library. February 22 we will be discussing Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan.

Everyone is welcome.