Happy Birthday to Ron Duford
on April 23.
Save these dates in May for upcoming Library Programs. On May
5th at the Library,
Kenneth
Gloss of the Brattle Book Shop in Boston will talk about old
and rare books and appraise your literary treasures. On May 14th at
the Town/Grange Hall Rebecca Rule will be telling her funny, true(ish),
close-to-home stories. Put these dates on your calendar now and plan
to attend one or both presentations.
The Chichester Library has set up a CD (music) swap. If
you enjoy music and want to try some new artists or some of your
favorites, bring a couple of your CDs and swap them out. We
request that you bring CDs that are suitable for the whole family.
If our CD swap works well, we are going to set up a DVD swap. We
will advertise when the DVD swap is set up. Watch your paper.
Chichester Grange met on Wednesday, April 15, at the Grange
Hall. A delicious turkey dinner raised over seventy dollars to
support the NH State Grange Youth Programs.
Deputy Dorothy
Haskins was present for her spring
visit. During the business meeting plans for a Memorial Day
observance were discussed.
Hannah
West led a brief Youth Night
program. The next meeting will be May 6th when Carolee Davison will
present a Mother’s Day program.
New Hampshire Soryteller
Advises All To Live Free And Eat Pie
New Hampshire humorist and storyteller Rebecca Rule, author of “Live
Free and Eat Pie, A Storyteller’s Guide to New
Hampshire,” will tell stories at the
Chichester, N.H., Public Library at 7 p.m. Friday, May 15. The
library is located at 161 Main St.
Rule’s version of a “tourist guide” to New Hampshire includes how to
talk New Hampshire, why residents love pie, how the Granite State differs
from Vermont, how to dress like a native and much more. Her take on the
habits, characteristics, and shall we say, peculiarities of
New Hampshire is, well, as unique as New Hampshire itself.
Rule has written several other popular books set in her native New Hampshire, including
The Best Revenge - a collection of short stories that was named Outstanding
Work of Fiction by the New Hampshire Writers Project and one of the five
Essential New Hampshire Books by New Hampshire Magazine - and Could Have
Been Worse: True Stories, Embellishments and Outright Lies. She is best
known, perhaps as “The Moose of Humor” and for her live storytelling events,
many sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council. She also has
produced two CDs of New Hampshire humor, Perley Gets a Dumpsticker and
Better than a Poke in the Eye.
“Live Free and Eat Pie” was published by Islandport Press, an
independent Maine-based publisher of quality books about
Maine
and Northern New England. In addition to
publishing Maine storyteller John McDonald’s A Moose and a Lobster Walk into
a Bar and My Life in the Maine Woods: A Game Warden’s Wife in the Allagash
Country by Annette Jackson, Islandport also distributes the classic Bert and
I series of CDs and Saturday Beans & Sunday Suppers by New Hampshire’s Edie
Clark.
For more information about the event, call the library at (603)
798-5613. For more information about the book, call (207) 846-3344 or email
[email protected]. Electronic images of the author and book
cover are available upon request.
