Upcoming Events

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!

At Philip Read Memorial Library, on the fourth Monday of each month at 6:45 pm.

     April 29th, 2024: Out Of The Dust by Karen Hesse

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.

Sponsored by the Meriden Friends of the Library.

Meriden Library 22 Bean Road Meriden, NH

6:30 PM

Jennifer Militello, the current NH Poet Laureate, will be reading from her poetry at this event.

More about Jennifer below:

About

Jennifer Militello is the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. She is the author of the hybrid collection Identifying the Pathogen (forthcoming, 2025), The Pact (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books, 2021) and the memoir Knock Wood, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize (Dzanc Books, 2019), as well as four previous books of poetry: A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments (Tupelo Press, 2016), finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and the Sheila Margaret Motton Prize, Body Thesaurus (Tupelo Press, 2013), named one of the top books of 2013 by Best American Poetry and runner-up for the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, Flinch of Song, winner of the Tupelo Press First Book Award, and the chapbook Anchor Chain, Open Sail.

Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, POETRY, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, and Tin House, as well as in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poems for Every Occasion, and 100 Poems to Save the Earth. She has been awarded the Barbara Bradley Award, the Yeats Poetry Prize, the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award, the Betty Gabehart Prize, and the 49th Parallel Award, and grants and fellowships from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Writers at Work, and the Millay Colony for the Arts.

Militello has taught at Brown University, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and the Rhode Island School of Design, and is currently a faculty member in the MFA program at New England College. She lives in Goffstown, New Hampshire.

link: https://jennifermilitello.com/

PRML 9:30 am to 11:30 am in the meeting room.

Meriden Library

Wednesdays 10-11 am

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)

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