The Library will be closed on Monday May
30th for the Memorial Day holiday. Summer hours will start June 4th.
During the summer we are open Saturdays 9am-1pm and closed Sundays.
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Monday, May 23, 2016
Evening of Poetry is this Tuesday Night
Don't forget our Evening of Poetry this Tuesday evening, May 24 at 6:30pm. All students who participated in the Library’s 14th Annual Poetry Contest, for grades K-12, are invited to read their poetry at this event, but this will be purely voluntary. The general public is encouraged to come and enjoy the readings. Prizes will be distributed in six different grade categories: K-2, 3 & 4, 5 & 6, 7 & 8, 9 & 10, and 11 & 12. Refreshments will be served. For more information please contact Denise LaFrance at 516-6082.
Saturday, May 21, 2016
Check Out Our New Museum Pass!
We are THRILLED to announce that we've just added a 19th museum pass to
our collection! Thank you to the Friends of the Library for
sponsoring...(drum roll, please)...the Institute of Contemporary Art (the
ICA) in Boston's Seaport District. The pass will admit two people
(children under 17 are free) for $5 each (regular admission is $15).
Reserve online now through our website's museum reservation system, or
call us at 516-6050 to book your date. ENJOY!
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
2016 Poetry Contest Winners!
Dover Public
Library’s
14th Annual
Poetry Contest
The
Dover Public Library would like to announce the winners of our 14th Annual
Poetry Contest. We would like to thank our
judges: Janice Alberghene, John Michael Albert, Maria Faskianos, Marcia Goodnow,
and Marsha Pelletier.
Category 1: 1st
Place: Nomusa Gwebu, Grade 1, Portsmouth Christian Academy
2nd Place: Mariela Staniec, Grade 2, Portsmouth Christian Academy
2nd Place: Mariela Staniec, Grade 2, Portsmouth Christian Academy
Honorable Mention: Hailey
Anzmann, Grade K, St. Mary Academy (tie)
Meredith Toland, Grade
2, Woodman Park School (tie)
Category 2: 1st
Place: Tim Kelm, Grade 4, Portsmouth Christian Academy
2nd
Place: Cosette Meloon, Grade 4, Portsmouth
Christian Academy
3rd Place : Brooke Helliwell, Grade 4, Woodman Park School
3rd Place : Brooke Helliwell, Grade 4, Woodman Park School
Honorable
Mention: Swami Dawar, Grade 4, Horne Street School
Category 3: 1st
Place: Grace Russell, Grade 6, St. Mary Academy
2nd
Place: Keira Langus, Grade 6, Dover Middle School
3rd
Place: Katie McColley, Grade 6, Marshwood Middle School
Honorable
Mention: Rory Perretti, Grade 6, St. Mary Academy
Category 4: 1st
Place: Emily Ferland, Grade 8, St. Mary
Academy
2nd
Place: Ashlyn Smith, Grade 7, Dover
Middle School
3rd
Place: Emalee Obyc, Grade 7, St. Mary
Academy
Honorable
Mention: Tatiana Davino, Grade 8, Dover Middle School (tie)
Madeleine Johnston, Grade 7, Dover Middle School (tie)
Madeleine Johnston, Grade 7, Dover Middle School (tie)
Category
5: 1st Place: Rachael
Morong, Grade 9, Dover High School
2nd Place: Morgen
Smith, Grade 10, Dover High School
3rd Place: Kathryn
Komerska, Grade 9, Portsmouth Christian Academy
Honorable Mention: Izabelle Wensley, Grade 9, Dover High School
Honorable Mention: Izabelle Wensley, Grade 9, Dover High School
Category 6: 1st
Place: Kristin Durham, Grade 12, Portsmouth
Christian Academy
2nd
Place: Mary McColley, Grade 11, Marshwood High School
3rd
Place: Anthony Harris, Grade 11, Dover High School
Honorable
Mention: Caitlin Angela McDonald, Grade
11, Dover High School
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Learn the truth about the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist: come and hear Stephen Kurkjian of the Boston Globe on May 23
The Dover Public
Library is pleased to welcome author Stephen Kurkjian, author of “Master
Thieves”, on Monday, May 23 at 6:30pm.
25 years after the famous art theft at
Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Stephen Kurkjian, the principal
reporter on the case for The Boston Globe, has written a gripping account of
the still-unsolved heist. In “Master Thieves”, Kurkjian reveals how the two
criminal gangs, battling for control of Boston’s underworld, knew of the
museum’s poor security, and that one had a motive to pull off the theft: to
fashion an exchange that would result in the release of its leader from federal
prison. It is a case defined by superlatives - the largest art theft in
history, carrying the world’s largest reward offer, and a longer time on the
FBI’s list of biggest unsolved art crimes than any other save one.
A Boston native, Stephen Kurkjian spent
nearly 40 years as an editor and reporter for The Boston Globe before retiring
in 2007. During his career, he shared in three Pulitzer Prizes and won more
than 20 regional and national reporting awards. Kurkjian graduated from Boston
Latin School in 1962, majored in English Literature at Boston University, and
earned his law degree from Suffolk University in 1970.
Kurkjian was a founding member of The
Globe’s investigative Spotlight Team, and its editor from 1979-1986. In 1986,
he was named chief of The Globe's Washington Bureau. He covered the Supreme
Court, the Justice Department, and the Bush White House during the first war in
Iraq.
Returning to Boston in the early 1990s, Kurkjian
undertook investigative projects at The Globe including the clergy abuse
scandal inside the Boston Archdiocese, the devastating fire at a Rhode
Island nightclub that took the lives of 100 people, and the recovery of a
Cezanne still life that was stolen from a Berkshires home in 1978 and later
auctioned for $29 million. He has also written extensively about the Armenian
Genocide, which his late father survived as a three year-old in 1915.
Kurkjian’s 2005 article about the
theft of 13 pieces of artwork from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is
regarded as the most complete account of the still-unsolved crime. “Master
Thieves”, his book on the theft, was published by PublicAffairs last year and
received critical praise from The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The
Washington Post. The book has been
optioned to TriStar Studios and is currently being adapted into a screenplay.
This program is free and open to the
public. For more information call the Library at 603-516-6050.
Tuesday, May 03, 2016
Songs and Stories from WWII on May 17 @ 7pm with Richard Kruppa
On Tuesday evening May 17 at
7pm, the Friends of the Library will host “Songs and Stories of World War II - Popular
Wartime Songs and their Stories You Didn't Know”, presented by Richard Kruppa.
Seventy five years ago this
country entered World War II, and people of all ages love the music from the
era, 1941-1945. This entertaining and informative program focuses on some of
the most beloved songs from that era. Songs like “Bluebirds over the White
Cliffs of Dover,” “Sentimental Journey,” and “Praise the Lord and Pass the
Ammunition." Richard not only sings the songs, accompanying himself on
guitar, 5-string banjo, and baritone ukulele, but also tells their fascinating
and unfamiliar stories as well; their meaning, how they came to be, and their
significance.
Richard asks interesting
and thought-provoking questions such as "What popular song was written in
response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor?" "What song was popular
world-wide and thought to be from each country where it was popular?" and
"What WWII-era song was a top hit written and recorded by a state
governor?”
Richard Kruppa, known
musically as “Ramblin’ Richard,” is a member of the New England Foundation for
the Arts, and is a retired professor from Bowling Green State University in
Ohio. This program is free
and open to the public. Refreshments will follow. Please
call the Dover Public Library, 516-6050, for more information.
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