Living Well With Anxiety

Wednesday, May 20 at 6:00 PM

As part of Mental Health Awareness Month, Katie Michaud, Community and Life Care Director at Cornerstone VNA, will offer information about anxiety and techniques for managing it. This session will provide life-long strategies everyone can benefit from when experiencing anxiety. Please register here. All are welcome.

Tour of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

Tuesday, June 16 at 10:00 – 12:30 PM

The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is the nation’s longest continuously operating Navy Shipyard, so you will not want to miss this opportunity to visit and experience more than 225 years of history. Joseph Gluckert, Shipyard Historian, will lead this general tour of the shipyard which includes a visit to the Shipyard Museum. Visitors will have a chance to view the room where dignitaries from Russia, Japan, and the United States gathered to sign the Russo-Japanese Peace Treaty in 1905.  

The tour will begin at 10:00 am and last approximately 2.5 hours. Please dress appropriately and be prepared for some walking and standing. 

Due to security precautions, all participants will require prior clearance to visit the Shipyard, and the library must provide names and addresses for each participant ten days prior to our visit. Registration is required. Please register here. Space is limited. Open to adults with appropriate ID. Meeting details will be shared with registrants.

Co-sponsored by the Madbury Public Library and the Madbury Historical Society.

Three Men and a One-Shilling Knife: A Genealogical Look at Local History

Wednesday, June 10 at 6:00 PM

Presented by Robert Cameron Weir of the New Hampshire Society of Genealogists, this engaging program uses a dramatic 1788 tavern killing in New Durham to show how genealogists uncover stories from the past. Through newspapers, court records, military records, petitions, and other original sources, the lecture follows the intertwined lives of three Revolutionary War veterans and reveals how family history research can illuminate the people, events, and communities of New Hampshire’s past. Please register here.

Monday & Thursday Story Times

All about Frogs!

On Mondays Miss Sheryl presents Lapsit (babies to 24 months) at 9:15 (doors open at 9:00)  and Preschool (2-5) follows at 10:30. Thursday Story Time with Miss Kayla is for all ages and takes place at 10:30.

Book Discussions

Monday, May 18 at 3:30 PM and at Thursday, May 21 at 6:00 PM!

The daytime book group will discuss The God of the Woods by Liz Moore on Monday, May 18 at 3:30 PM.

The evening book group will discuss Embers by Sandor Marai on Thursday, May 21 at 6:00 PM.

Multiple copies of both books are available borrow. All are welcome!