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Greetings from the Director
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Thank you to all who participated in the Concord Free Public Library's Food for Fines week in March. As a result of your generosity, my colleagues and I were able to deliver 10+ boxes of food to Open Table for distribution to residents in need through their food pantry program.
During National Library Week, CFPL's exhibition entitled "From Thoreau's Seasons to Men of Concord: N.C. Wyeth Inspired" will open in the Main  Library's Art Gallery and will be available for viewing through September 2016. This special exhibition will run concurrently with the Concord Museum's exhibition "N. C. Wyeth's Men of Concord" where the twelve original panels N.C. Wyeth painted for the book Men of Concord will be exhibited together for the first time in nearly eighty years. Please see the schedule of library related events outlined in this newsletter.
Please be sure to join our annual celebration of libraries by attending a talk on presidential libraries with Frank Rigg, former Curator of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, on April 14 at 7:00 p.m. in the Main Library's Periodical Room.
Best wishes,
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Kerry Cronin
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"From Thoreau's Seasons to Men of Concord: N.C. Wyeth Inspired"
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 "From Thoreau's Seasons to Men of Concord: N.C. Wyeth Inspired" exhibit will take place in the Art Gallery from April 15 through September 18, 2016.
In this landmark collaboration, the Concord Free Public Library and the Concord Museum have each brought together a selection of rich, evocative works of art and historical documents to tell the uniquely local story of N. C. Wyeth's series of painted panels, Men of Concord, and the Houghton Mifflin book. Accompanying the exhibit is an array of programming that includes an exhibit opening, a panel discussion and guided gallery tours.
Exhibit Opening
Friday, April 15 from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Main Library Lobby
The exhibit opening will feature remarks by Elliot Bostwick Davis, John Moors Cabot Chair of the Art of the Americas Department, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Dr. Davis will present "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads": The Intersection of Art and Literature in the Worlds of Henry David Thoreau and the Wyeth Family of Artists. The evening's p
rogram will also include the performance of musical pieces transcribed from the manuscript Thoreau family
flute books held by Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House. The event is free and open to the public; light refreshments will be served. For RSVP, please call 978-318-3355 or email [email protected].
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Tuesday Book Group
April 12 at 9:30 - 11:15 a.m.
Main Library Trustees' Room
We will read and discuss
Men of Concord by Henry David Thoreau
. Copies of the book are available at the Main Library
. All are welcome.
Cookbook Club 
Wednesday, April 13 at 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Fowler Branch
This month's book title is
Flour, Too by Joanne Chang. Copies of the title are available at the Main Library and Fowler Branch to check out. Advance registrations are required. [
Sign Up]
 Book-A-Mystery Discussion
Wednesday, April 20 at 2:00 p.m.
Fowler Branch
Copies of this month's selection
Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indridason are available at the Branch to check out. Open to all.
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The
Poetry at the Library Series brings Maggie Dietz and Todd Hearon to Concord to read and talk about their poetry on Sunday, April 10 at 3:00 p.m. in the Main Library Trustees' Room. Refreshments and book signings will follow.
 Poet and editor Maggie Dietz is the author of
Perennial Fall, which won New Hampshire's Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry in 2007, and That Kind of Happy (2016). For many years, Dietz directed the Favorite Poem Project, Robert Pinsky's special undertaking during his tenure as U.S. Poet Laureate, and is co-editor of three anthologies related to the project:
Americans' Favorite Poems,
Poems to Read, and
An Invitation to Poetry. Her awards include the Grolier Poetry Prize, the George Bennett Fellowship at PhillipsExeter Academy, as well as fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.
 Poet, playwright, and essayist Todd Hearon received an MA in Irish studies from Boston College and a PhD in editorial studies from Boston University. His poetry collection Strange Land (2010) was selected by poet Natasha Trethewey as a winner of the Crab Orchard Poetry Series in Poetry Open Competition Award. His second collection of poems, No Other Gods (2015), was a finalist for the Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor's Choice Award, the May Swenson Poetry Award, and the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize. He has received a PEN/New England "Discovery" Award; the Friends of Literature Prize from Poetry magazine and the Poetry Foundation; the Rumi Prize in Poetry and the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library, the event is free and open to all.
Read more about the poets.
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 Thursday Authors Series will present Diane Freeman, author of Midlife with Thoreau: Poems, Essays, Journals on April 28 at 7:00 p.m. in the Main Library Periodical Room.
Freeman is a professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of New Hampshire where she teaches courses in American literature, women writers, nature writers, poetry and Holocaust literature. She has published previously on women poets, including Edna St. Vincent Millay, and on the autobiographical "turn" in scholarship. She is a member of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, and an avid environmentalist.
This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library. Open to all.
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April Classes & Drop-In Tech Help
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 Lynda.com
Saturday, April 9 at 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Main Library Trustees' Room
The Library is pleased to provide our Concord patrons free access to
Lynda.com, an online learning website with video-based courses on everything from technology skills to photography to "soft skills." In this class you will be introduced to this newest electronic database the Library subscribes to. The class is free and open to all. Registrations are required. [
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iPad 101 
Wednesday, April 13 at 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Main Library Lower Level Meeting Room
Whether you are new to your iPad or are thinking about having one, come and learn the basics of this mobile device! We will show you how to navigate an iPad, find/install/delete an app, text/email and some other tips and tricks. Open to all. Feel free to bring your iPad. [
Sign Up]
Drop-In Tech Help
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Fridays, April 1 & 8
Mondays, April 11 & 25
Main Library Lobby
Stop in with any questions you may have about your mobile devices, laptops and/or library eBooks etc. Open to all.
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 Don't miss the last concert of the Music from the Library Series on Saturday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Main Library Lobby. Shunske Sato, violin, and Shuann Chai, piano will perform music of Ravel, Elgar, Stravinsky, and Prokofiev.
Free admission. Registrations are required. Register now.
Generously sponsored by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library.
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