SPRING 2013

 Book Discussion and Lecture Series

 

 Fairies and Wishes and Witches, Oh My!

The Import of Fairy Tales in All of Our Lives 

 

 

    FIRST SESSION:

                              

    Date:                                       Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - 7:00 p.m.

    Scholar:                                  Ingrid Graff

    Program:                                Ingrid Graff's Humanities to Go talk, "Not 

                                                      in Front of the Children"

     

    SECOND SESSION:

 

    Date:                                        Wednesday, February 6, 2013 - 7:00 p.m.

    Scholar:                                   Ingrid Graff

    Book/Author:                        Briar Rose by Jane Yolen 

    THIRD SESSION:

    Date:                                         Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 7:00 p.m.

    Scholar:                                    Ingrid Graff

    Book/Author:                         Nightingale Wood by Stella Gibbons

 

 

    FOURTH SESSION:

 

    Date:                                           Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 6:00 p.m.

    Scholar:                                      Ingrid Graff

    Viewing & Discussion:            Stephen Sondheim's Play,  Into the Woods

 

    Sponsored by the Berlin Public Library and the White Mountains 

    Community College, Berlin, NH.  Funding provided by the New 

    Hampshire Humanities Council and the Neil and Louise Tillotson

    Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation - North Country

    Region.  

 

    Books for this series are available for loan at both libraries.

 

    Wednesdays at the White Mountain Community College, 

    Berlin, Fortier Library (Room 127).  Refreshments will be

    served.

 

                                        FREE ADMISSION 

 

                                                              

    

 

                                 

2012 FALL EXHIBIT AND DISCUSSION SERIES

*THE WAY WE WORKED*

The exhibit, "The Way We Worked," from the Smithsonian Institution will be on display at the WMCC Fortier Library from November 5th through December 19th, 2012.

 Series:

                

• August 29, 2012: Book discussion on Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, Scholar: Suzanne Brown

• September 26, 2012: Book discussion on Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich,  Scholar: Craig Doherty

•  November 14, 2012: Panel discussion on how we worked in the North Country with panelists: Barry Kelly, Bill Thomas, Linda Upham-Bornstein, Jim Wagner

• November 28, 2012: Jennifer Pustz, Museum Historian at Historic New England, will present a talk on the history of domestic servants.

All events will be held at White Mountain Community College on Wednesdays, beginning at 7p.m.  Admission is free and refreshments will be served.  Copies of the books will be available for loan at Berlin Public Library and WMCC Fortier Library.

  The series and exhibit are funded, in part, by the NH Humanities Council

 

BOOK DISCUSSION HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED

THE FEBRUARY 29, 2012 BOOK DISCUSSION HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED. THE NEW DATE IS MARCH 19, 2012, 7:00p.m.

SPRING 2012 BOOK DISCUSSION AND LECTURE SERIES

FORESTS AND MOUNTAINS
Living and Working in the North Country

Wednesdays at 7p.m. at the White Mountains Community College, Berlin,
Fortier Library (Room 127). Refreshments will be served.

Books for this series are available for loan at both libraries.

First Session:

Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 7p.m.
Scholar: Suzanne Brown
Book Title/Author: We Took to the Woods by Louise Dickinson Rich

Second Session:

Date: March 28, 2012 at 7p.m.
Scholar: Marcia Blaine-Schmidt
Program Title: Saving the Mountains: NH & the Creation of the National Forests

Third Session:

Date: April 25, 2012 at 7p.m.
Scholar: Craig Doherty
Book Title/Author: Spiked Boots: From New England's North Country, True Stories of Yesteryear, When Men Were Rugged and Rivers Wild by Robert E. Pike.

Fourth Session:

Date: May 23, 2012
Scholar: Maggie Stier
Program Title: The Old Man of the Mountains: Substance and Symbol

Sponsored by the Berlin Public Library and the White Mountains Community College, Berlin. Funding provided by the New Hampshire Humanities Council and the Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation - North Country Region.

FREE ADMISSION

FALL 2011 BOOK DISCUSSION SERIES

FAMILY ALBUMS

In the course of a lifetime, we usually belong to several families. First is the family we grew up with. We may marry and create one or more families of our own. Our children, grown and independent, leave us with the remnants of family life. Perhaps they are scattered, but they still belong to us. We also have an important "family" or friends whom we do not want to lose. Each of these concentric family circles profoundly affects the others and helps shape our personalities, our life choices and our relationships with the larger world.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 7pm
Book: 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Speaker: Craig Doherty

Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 7pm
Book: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
Speaker: Suzanne Brown

Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 7pm
Book: Sula by Toni Morrison
Speaker: Holly Perrault

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 7pm
Book: House of Sky by Ivan Doig
Speaker: Emily Archer

Sponsored by the Berlin Public Library and the White Mountain Community College, Berlin. Funding provided by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.

Books for the series are available for loan at both libraries.

Wednesdays at 7pm at the White Mountain Community College, Berlin,
Fortier Library (Room 127). Refreshments will be served.

The February 2, 2011 book discussion has been rescheduled to February 16, 2011, 7:00 p.m. at Fortier Library, White Mountain Community Colllege

SPRING 2011 BOOK DISCUSSION SERIES

THE NORTHERN FOREST

Ongoing through Mid-April, 2011:
Ways of the Woods Exhibit and Beyond Brown Paper Photograph Exhibit at
White Mountain Community College

DATE: Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 7 p.m.
SPEAKER: Craig Doherty
BOOK: The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau

DATE: Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 7 p.m.
SPEAKER: Craig Doherty

BOOK: Where the Rivers Flow North by Howard Frank Mosher

DATE: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 7 p.m.
SPEAKER: Michael Wilson

BOOK: The Northern Forest

edited by David Dobbs & Richard Ober

DATE: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 7 p.m.
SPEAKER: Rebecca Rule

LECTURE TITLE: Cross Cut

Books for this series are available for loan at both libraries.

Sponsored by the Berlin Public Library and the White Mountains Community College, Berlin.
Funding provided by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.

Wednesdays at 7 p.m. at the White Mountain Community College, Berlin, Fortier Library (Room 127).

Refreshments will be served.

FREE ADMISSION