Storytimes near Durham Public Library

Come have a wildly fun time with Wildlife Encounters at Madbury Public Library!

Oyster River Room

Join us for Mah Jongg - please sign up, games limited to 24 participants.

Oyster River Room

Dungeons and Dragons Games. Please arrive by 5:45.

Storytime or YA Room

Stop by the storytime room any time between 10AM-2PM for a fun art project every Friday during summer reading.

Storytime or YA Room

Stop by the storytime room any time between 10AM-2PM for a fun art project every Friday during summer reading.

Storytime or YA Room

Join us for a night of creating, snacking and having tons of fun! Everyone receives a raffle ticket for each event they attend. Ages 10

Online - Zoom **PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Webinar via email. Due to limited space, if you know you cannot make it live do not register with zoom but please fill out THIS FORM to receive the video link.** We're at it again! We keep having so much fun with Loretta and Susan that we had to keep bringing them back for encore performances. And, this time, they are focusing on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. They are so knowledgeable about the everyday lives of people who lived through this era as well as how war could upend those lives. We know that, as always, we'll have a great conversation and learn so much about how this historic happening affected every aspect of people's lives. You know them as the Two Nerdy History Girls - authors Loretta Chase and Susan Holloway Scott were the originators of the infamous blog. We, once again, have Loretta and Susan here to answer all of our burning questions about the 250th. How do they do their research, how much of it comes out of their visits to Colonial Williamsburg, and how do they incorporate their knowledge into their writing? We can't wait for what we know is going to be a fascinating conversation between these two friends and researchers. Loretta Chase has worked in academe, retail, and the visual arts, as well as on the streets—as a meter maid—and in video, as a scriptwriter. She might have developed an excitingly checkered career had her spouse not nagged her into writing fiction. Her bestselling historical romances, set in the Regency and Romantic eras of the early nineteenth century, have won a number of awards, including the Romance Writers of America’s RITA® and Vivian®. For more about her past, her books, and what she does and doesn’t do on social media, please visit her website. Susan Holloway Scott is the author of over fifty historical novels and novellas. Her bestselling books have received numerous awards and honors, and with more than four million copies of her books in print, she has been published in nineteen foreign countries around the world. She has also written under the pseudonyms Isabella Bradford and Miranda Jarrett. Susan is a graduate of Brown University, and lives with her family in a book-filled house outside of Philadelphia, PA. Check out the previous posts on Two Nerdy History Girls Blog!

Storytime or YA Room

Join us for stories, songs, fingerplays and rhymes. Craft and playtime to follow.

Oyster River Room

Joyce Andersen https://www.joyscream.com/ Harvey Reid https://www.woodpecker.com/harveyreid.html

Storytime or YA Room

Join us for Wiggles and Giggles for ages 2 & under with care-giver. We hear stories, do rhymes, sing songs, do movement and have fun!

Medium Community Room

Join us to learn about Nature Journaling with the organizers of The Nature Journal Club of Seacoast New Hampshire.

Storytime or YA Room

Join us this summer for some dino-themed fun! This program is for grades K-4 and registration is required.

Oyster River Room

Oyster River Room

Join us for Mah Jongg - please sign up, games limited to 24 participants.

Oyster River Room

Dungeons and Dragons Games. Please arrive by 5:45.

Storytime or YA Room

Stop by the storytime room any time between 10AM-2PM for a fun art project every Friday during summer reading.

Storytime or YA Room

Stop by the storytime room any time between 10AM-2PM for a fun art project every Friday during summer reading.

Small Community Room

Join us for coffee, conversation and activities focused around practicing conversational French

Storytime or YA Room

Join us for a night of creating, snacking and having tons of fun! Everyone receives a raffle ticket for each event they attend. Ages 10

Medium Community Room

Bring your own craft and come to enjoy the company of others.

Storytime or YA Room

Join us for stories, songs, fingerplays and rhymes. Craft and playtime to follow.

Small Community Room

Oyster River Room

What was everyday life really like here in Durham during its time as an early colonial New England frontier? In this talk, based on her recent book The Shock of Colonialism in New England: Fragments from a Frontier, archaeologist Dr. Meghan C. L. Howey shares discoveries from the Great Bay Archaeological Survey (GBAS). Her work combines archaeology with careful archival research, collaboration with Indigenous knowledge keepers, and community partnerships to uncover powerful, often overlooked social and ecological histories of early colonialism (ca.1600 – 1750). Buried below the surface right here in Durham, we find evidence of diverse English colonial lives, rich relationships with Indigenous peoples, and lasting environmental impacts of early industries. But our chance to recover a more dynamic understanding of early colonialism is at risk -- rising sea levels are washing our area’s archaeological sites away. About the speaker: Meghan C.L. Howey is a Professor in Anthropology and the Earth Systems Research Center and Director of the Center for the Humanities at UNH. She is a community-engaged archaeologist interested in past cultural landscapes and early colonialism. She received her B.A. (2000) from the University of Delaware and her M.A. (2002) and Ph.D. (2006) from the University of Michigan. She has conducted research in North America, Europe, and East Africa. Her first book explored the ceremonial landscapes of ancestral Anishinaabeg peoples in the northern Great Lakes in the period just before colonial encounter (ca. AD 1200-1600). Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis, ethnohistoric research, collaboration with Indigenous knowledge keepers, and interdisciplinary work with earth scientists enhance her research. Her most recent project, the Great Bay Archaeological Survey (GBAS), began during her time as the James H. Hayes and Claire Short Hayes Professor of the Humanities and continues today, as she and her team keep exploring overlooked stories of our shared past embedded in coastal New Hampshire.

Storytime or YA Room

Join us for Wiggles and Giggles for ages 2 & under with care-giver. We hear stories, do rhymes, sing songs, do movement and have fun!

Medium Community Room

Join us for creating a mini terrarium.

Storytime or YA Room

Join us this summer for some dino-themed fun! This program is for grades K-4 and registration is required.

Oyster River Room

We will be painting and snacking...dinosaur style! There will also be a raffle. Registration required.

Oyster River Room

We will be painting and snacking...dinosaur style! There will also be a raffle. Registration required.

Oyster River Room

Join us for Mah Jongg - please sign up, games limited to 24 participants.

Oyster River Room

Dungeons and Dragons Games. Please arrive by 5:45.