Adults

Thursday, June 20, 2024 @ Meriden Library - 3:30 PM

Nathan Blanchard, an NH Forest Ranger who supports our area of the state, will talk about the Smokey Bear Reading Challenge. The New Hampshire Forest Rangers are excited to support the Smokey Bear Reading Challenge and the 2024 Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) “Adventure Begins at Your Library”.

Celebrate Smokey’s 80th Birthday by joining the Smokey Bear Reading Challenge and engage youth in reading about wildfire prevention, forests, and natural resource careers while they explore their local environment.

This challenge can be run through a printable challenge paper log (see Digital Toolkit below) as well as through the online Beanstack platform.

The challenge is designed to complement the 2024 Collaborative Summer Reading Program theme of “Adventure Begins at Your Library” as well as the iREAD Summer Reading Program theme of “Read, Renew, Repeat.”

• Celebrate Smokey Bear’s 80th Birthday. Join Smokey in learning about wildfires and the environment. Read books, take action, and have fun! Kids earn badges and prizes as they read and take action. Get started today!
• Did you know 9 out of 10 wildfires are caused by people? Smokey Bear does! Help Smokey prevent wildfires by joining the Smokey Bear Reading Challenge. Read books, take action, and have fun.
• Smokey Bear turns 80 this year. Join Smokey in completing a reading challenge to learn about wildfires and the environment in honor of his birthday. You’ll get to read books, earn badges, and receive prizes.
• Only You Can Prevent Wildfires! Learn more about how you can play your part and help Smokey Bear celebrate his 80th birthday through the Smokey Bear Reading Challenge!

Mindful Mondays are designed for you to start your week with an intentional pause and practice a meditation exercise with your community. All you need to do is show up, turn your phone off, and be!

Hybrid Meditation Class (in-person and virtual)

Join Jim Allen for enriching hybrid meditation sessions. 

If you are a frequent practitioner or have never done meditation, please join us.

Please register in advance and you will be sent the Zoom class link; click here: 

Register in advance for this meeting:
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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

This is a drop-in time for you to come with your tech questions.

Please come with your device(s) and all necessary passwords. We can take this time to make sure you are
set up properly to take advantage of all the library has to offer, or to help you get up and running with your
email program, social media, and the like. If we can’t help you, we’ll find an answer or point you in the direction of finding it yourself. We hope you’ll take advantage of this new service. If the time is not right for you, just let us know and we can set up an appointment.
 

Tech Tuesdays @ PRML - 10:30-11:30 am (drop in help)
Tech Thursday @ ML - 3-4: 30 pm (drop in help)

Tuesdays at 4:30 pm.

All levels welcome.

What is cribbage?

Cribbage, or crib, is a card game, traditionally for two players, that involves playing and grouping cards in combinations which gain points. It can be adapted for three or four players.[1]

Cribbage has several distinctive features: the cribbage board used for score-keeping; the crib, box, or kitty (in parts of Canada and New England) two distinct scoring stages; and a unique scoring system, including points for groups of cards that total 15. It has been characterized as "Britain's national card game" and the only one legally playable in licensed pubs and clubs without requiring local authority permission.[2]

The game has relatively few rules yet many subtleties, which accounts for its ongoing appeal and popularity. Tactical play varies, depending on which cards one's opponent has played, how many cards in the remaining pack will help the hand one holds, and what one's position on the board is. A game may be decided by a single point, and the edge often goes to an experienced player who utilizes strategy, including calculating odds and making decisions based on the relative positions of players on the board.

Both cribbage and its close relative costly colours are descended from the old English card game of noddy. Cribbage added the distinctive feature of a crib and changed the scoring system for points, whereas costly colours added more combinations but retained the original noddy scoring scheme.

Becoming Wolf: The Eastern Coyote in New England

An eastern coyote is defined as much by its western coyote ancestry as by its DNA
contribution from the Eastern wolf. “Our” coyotes vary physically and
behaviorally from its smaller relative – while still carrying the incredible
adaptability and canniness of Wile E. Coyote. This program takes a deep dive into
the ecology and behavior of this creature, its indefatigability and how it is the
human who must adapt to live with the ‘One Who Cannot Be Removed’.
On the horizon, however, is a native carnivore which fled the northeast during
wolf removal and now may be trying to return: The eastern wolf. A look-alike to
the coyote, it has been killed mistakenly for its similarity of appearance to the
coyote. We’ll talk about how the wolf and coyote might negotiate a truce in the
northeast and how we might do the same.

About 

Christine Schadler (pronounced Shaydler)
Chris’ interest in wild canids began in the 1970s as a volunteer at Wolf
Park in Battleground, Indiana. This opportunity and others inspired an
eventual Masters in Conservation Biology at Antioch University in
Keene. Her thesis focused on the Natural Recovery of the Eastern
Timber Wolf in Michigan. Chris lived in Michigan and Minnesota
during the early 1980s where her research into the gray wolf continued
and her speaking career began.
Beginning in the early 1990s, Chris taught Forestry, Wolf Ecology and
Environmental Conservation in the Natural Resources Department at
UNH. She also instructed and mentored adult degree candidates in the
UNH System at Granite State College.
While wolf recovery was the focus of her early work, Chris’ attention
shifted to the Eastern Coyote when she and her flock of sheep moved to
New England. She is now the NH and VT Representative for Project
Coyote, a national organization promoting coexistence with coyotes.
Chris (with John Harrigan) co-founded the NH Wildlife Coalition which
aims to defend predators and broaden public input into wildlife decision-
making. She currently Chairs the Webster Conservation Commission
and is a member of the Northeast Wolf Recovery Alliance.

Chris taught Wolf Ecology, Conservation and Dendrology at UNH.
Since the 1970s, coexisting with the eastern coyote was put into practice
on her sheep farms where no lethal measures and no predation occurred,
ever. She is the NH & VT Rep for Project Coyote and Co-Founder of
the NH Wildlife Coalition, which advocates for better conservation for
predators.

Chris holds a Masters in Conservation Biology and offers 40 years of
research and specialization in wild canids, particularly the Eastern Wolf
and the Eastern Coyote. Now retired from teaching Conservation,
Dendrology and Wolf Ecology at UNH and Conservation at Granite
State College, she provides education and presentations throughout New
England.

Drop-in board games - 2 pm at the Meriden Library

This is a drop-in time for you to come with your tech questions.

Please come with your device(s) and all necessary passwords. We can take this time to make sure you are
set up properly to take advantage of all the library has to offer, or to help you get up and running with your
email program, social media, and the like. If we can’t help you, we’ll find an answer or point you in the direction of finding it yourself. We hope you’ll take advantage of this new service. If the time is not right for you, just let us know and we can set up an appointment.
 

Tech Tuesdays @ PRML - 10:30-11:30 am (drop in help)
Tech Thursday @ ML - 3-4: 30 pm (drop in help)

Agenda-April 1, 2024, Library, 6:30

1. Approval of minutes - March 

2. Treasurer Report

3. Membership

4. Programs-request by Jim

5. Memorandum of Understanding--see revisions by the library trustees

6. Request by library trustees-discussion re moving the book shed

7. Rt. 12A clean-up--need volunteers for weeks of: one for April 22, two for June 17, August 19, October 14

8. Other

9. Next meeting: May 6

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Agenda-April 1, 2024, Library, 6:30

1. Approval of minutes - March 

2. Treasurer Report

3. Membership

4. Programs-request by Jim

5. Memorandum of Understanding--see revisions by the library trustees

6. Request by library trustees-discussion re moving the book shed

7. Rt. 12A clean-up--need volunteers for weeks of: one for April 22, two for June 17, August 19, October 14

8. Other

9. Next meeting: May 6

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84096781704?pwd=a1BHMURJWU1GS1cyUURMdlNxMSt1Zz09

Meeting ID: 840 9678 1704

Passcode: 632979

One tap mobile

+13017158592,,84096781704#,,,,*632979# US (Washington DC)

+13052241968,,84096781704#,,,,*632979# US

 Dial by your location

• +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)

• +1 305 224 1968 US

• +1 309 205 3325 US

• +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)

• +1 646 931 3860 US

• +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)

Agenda-April 1, 2024, Library, 6:30

1. Approval of minutes - March 

2. Treasurer Report

3. Membership

4. Programs-request by Jim

5. Memorandum of Understanding--see revisions by the library trustees

6. Request by library trustees-discussion re moving the book shed

7. Rt. 12A clean-up--need volunteers for weeks of: one for April 22, two for June 17, August 19, October 14

8. Other

9. Next meeting: May 6

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84096781704?pwd=a1BHMURJWU1GS1cyUURMdlNxMSt1Zz09

Meeting ID: 840 9678 1704

Passcode: 632979

One tap mobile

+13017158592,,84096781704#,,,,*632979# US (Washington DC)

+13052241968,,84096781704#,,,,*632979# US

 Dial by your location

• +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)

• +1 305 224 1968 US

• +1 309 205 3325 US

• +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)

• +1 646 931 3860 US

• +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)