Richards Free Library

Saturday, August 25, 2018, 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
(Friends of the Library Sneak Preview: 8:00 to 9:00 AM)

Join us for for our annual festival! The Book Tent opens at 9:00 AM, with admission at 8:00 AM for Friends of the Library (you can join that morning!).

Festival activities include:

• The Cookie Walk featuring over a hundred selections;
• Luncheon on the Library Porch offered by Library Trustees;
• The Children’s Tent has new activities each year;
• Friends of the Library table where you can buy items such as note cards and postcards;
• Raffles for prizes which include a dollhouse renovated and furnished by Mindy Thorpe; a slate picturing the Newport Fire Station hand painted by Marty Lovely; and a pop-up edition of Stephen King’s book The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

If you already use our ebooks and audiobooks through the New Hampshire Downloadable Books website, you might have noticed that digital magazines are back!

The magazines are licensed for simultaneous use which means there is no waiting! They are readable on a computer (as the Read Now format) and through the Libby app, working nearly exactly like an ebook.

We hope you enjoy this new collection!

The library will be closed on Wednesday, July 4, for Independence Day.

Due to everyone’s overwhelming generosity, our festival book storage area is full. We are unable to take any more books until September. Thank you for your support!

Don’t miss this year’s fantastic summer reading kickoff, a musical puppet show by Cactushead Puppets about the Bremen Town Musicians, a group of farm animals who are eager to head out into the world to become world-famous musicians! The performance is at 2:00 on Monday, June 25th We can’t wait to see you there!

Congratulations to our children’s librarian, Moriah Churchill-Calkins (Ms. Mo), who was married (at the library!) this past weekend.

Are you teen or do you know a teen? SYNC is a free summer audiobook program that provides free audiobook downloads for teens age 13+. Each week they offer two different free books to download. Don’t miss out on any more of them!   https://www.audiobooksync.com/

On Thursday, June 7, Mary Ellen Cannon will lead Circle Dance in the ballroom of the Richards Free Library in Newport from 6:30 to 8:00. Circle Dance is composed of traditional dances from around the world as well as new choreographies.  All dances are taught. No partner, dance experience, or special skills of any kind are needed. Simply bring comfortable indoor shoes. For more information call the library at 603-863-3430.

Join the Richards Library Poetry Group on Thursday, April 26 at 7:00 PM as we welcome Martha Carlson-Bradley. She will be reading and answering questions regarding her latest work: Begin with Trouble: Poems Inspired by the 1727 New-England Primer!