Kids

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

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.

July 31, 2024 @ 6:30 PM @ Meriden Library

Diane Edgecomb - Trail Mix

Adventure Begins at Your Library with a performance of Trail Mix!

Step off the Beaten Path and into the Big Outdoors in this fun-loving Participatory Program with award-winning storyteller Diane Edgecomb. We'll go on a fossil dig in Montana to discover a new dinosaur and take on the world's sassiest bugs all before we break out our lunch pails. Join in the stories, songs, and FUN that have made Diane Edgecomb one of New England's favorite storytellers.

Description: Experience the joy of reading to Scooter as the therapy dog lends an ear at the library. This heartwarming session is suitable for both kids and adults alike!

We hope to see you at this exciting free event! Feel free to invite friends and family to join in the fun. 

For more information please visit our website at www.plainfieldlibraries.org (or contact the library at 603/558-2576.

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

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.

August 6, 2024, 6:30 PM at Meriden Library: Ken Cadow

Books

Gather

A 2023 National Book Award Finalist
A Michael L. Printz Honor Book

A resourceful teenager in rural Vermont struggles to hold on to the family home while his mom recovers from addiction in this striking debut novel.

Ian Gray isn’t supposed to have a dog, but a lot of things that shouldn’t happen end up happening anyway. And Gather, Ian’s adopted pup, is good company now that Ian has to quit the basketball team, find a job, and take care of his mom as she tries to overcome her opioid addiction. Despite the obstacles thrown their way, Ian is determined to keep his family afloat no matter what it takes. And for a little while, things are looking up: Ian makes friends, and his fondness for the outdoors and for fixing things lands him work helping neighbors. But an unforeseen tragedy results in Ian and his dog taking off on the run, trying to evade a future that would mean leaving their house and their land. Even if the community comes together to help him, would Ian and Gather have a home to return to?

Told in a wry, cautious first-person voice that meanders like a dog circling to be sure it’s safe to lie down, Kenneth M. Cadow’s resonant debut brings an emotional and ultimately hopeful story of one teen’s resilience in the face of unthinkable hardships.

About the author

Kenneth Cadow lives in Vermont with his wife and three children, a dog and three cats. Throughout his multiple careers of student, taxi driver, naval officer, grocery store owner, editor, and high school and middle school art teacher, one thing has remained constant: he has always been a writer. For several years, he was editor of The Upper Valley Parents' Paper, a parenting magazine that served New Hampshire and Vermont.

Mr. Cadow has run away many times in his life. Starting at age six, when he skipped school by hiding in a raspberry patch. He found it rather boring, and when he returned home, his mother asked him if the berries were ripe (yes, she knew it all along). Another time, around the age of nine, he dug a hole for a fort, covered it with a rotting piece of plywood, and decided to live the life subterranean. Although he brought his stuffed dog, Smooch, his sleeping bag, and peanut butter crackers, the venture was even shorter and he was home within the half-hour. His love of forts has not outgrown him, but these days, he runs away with his family to a 700 year-old house in a hamlet of southern France, and to a yurt in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom.

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