Meriden Events

Laura Foley is the author of, most recently, Sledding the Valley of the Shadow, and Ice Cream for Lunch: A Grandparents Handbook. She has won a Narrative Magazine Poetry Prize, Common Good Books Poetry Prize, Poetry Box Editor's Choice Chapbook Award, Bisexual Book Award, and others. Her work has been widely published in such journals as Alaska Quarterly, Valparaiso Poetry Review, American Life in Poetry, featured often on The Writer's Almanac, and included in anthologies such as How to Love the World and Poetry of Presence. For many years she worked as a volunteer in the No One Alone program at DHMC, was trained as a chaplain in hospitals and prisons, and is a certified yoga instructor. She holds graduate degrees in Literature from Columbia University, and lives with her wife on the steep banks of the Connecticut River in West Lebanon, New Hampshire.

1953 Grantham Mountain Fire

April 27, 2025 at 3:00 pm 
Meriden Library
22 Bean Road, Meriden, NH

Many Plainfield residents, old and new, have heard stories about the 1953 fire that burned a large portion of Grantham Mountain. Local historian and writer Steve Taylor was a young man at the time and helped fight the fire. He will share his memories of that dramatic event & give his "side" of the story. 

Mondays at 9:30 am in the meeting space!

Friends of the Meriden Library sponsored event

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.

VINS Bird Program - Hold The Date

6:30 pm

6:30 pm - all are welcome!

Thursday April 24th from 3:15 to 5 at the Meriden Library. Introductory meeting between Emily Zea and the 10 PES students who will be participating. School bus will drop children off at 3:15, parents will collect them at 5.

Tuesday May 13th    3:15-5:00 children will meet with Emily at the Meriden library to edit their drawings

Thursday May15th     "

Tuesday May 20th     "

Thursday May 22nd 

Plainfield Elementary School PTA

Starts at 7 PM.

Thursday April 24th from 3:15 to 5 at the Meriden Library. Introductory meeting between Emily Zea and the 10 PES students who will be participating. School bus will drop children off at 3:15, parents will collect them at 5.

Tuesday May 13th    3:15-5:00 children will meet with Emily at the Meriden library to edit their drawings

Thursday May15th     "

Tuesday May 20th     "

Thursday May 22nd 

Thursday April 24th from 3:15 to 5 at the Meriden Library. Introductory meeting between Emily Zea and the 10 PES students who will be participating. School bus will drop children off at 3:15, parents will collect them at 5.

Tuesday May 13th    3:15-5:00 children will meet with Emily at the Meriden library to edit their drawings

Thursday May15th     "

Tuesday May 20th     "

Thursday May 22nd