Adult programs

Who: Learners: Upper Valley residents who want to practice and improve their spoken English. Tutors: English speakers who volunteer as conversation partners and language modelers.

What: Free of charge to all participants. The Talking Bridge can supplement formal ESOL/ELL classes, but you don't need to be enrolled in a class to attend. 

Where: Kilton Library, 80 Main Street, West Lebanon, NH 

When: Mondays from 5:00-6:15 p.m. (except for Federal holidays when the library is closed)

Well-known Heroes, Unknown Heroines

The Woman who Smashed Codes  by Jason Fagone  

A poet teams up with a geneticist  to crack cyphers from World Wars I and II and criminal gangs-- and then is erased from history.

Copies to check out are available at the Reference Desk.

 Well-known Heroes, Unknown Heroines

 Lafayette in the Somewhat United States  by Sarah Vowell  

 One man’s history of the Revolution, a tour of the early United States, and reflections from the 21st century.

Copies to check out are available at the Reference Desk.

Come and hear about the Three Peregrinas and their six week walk across Spain following the ancient pilgrimage route, the Camino de Santiago.

Presented by Francine Lozeau, Emily Chapin, and Mona McAndrew.

Well-known Heroes, Unknown Heroines 

June 14  Daughters of the Samurai  by Janice P. Nimura   

Three preteen girls leave Japan for the US in 1871 tasked with learning how to establish women’s education in their homeland.

Copies to check out are available at the Reference Desk.

Summer Reading Recommendations

Bring your favorite, or most anticipated summer reads to recommend, and leave with a list of recommendations!

We'll also determine the topics for next year's Book Buffet discussions.

Bring a brownbag lunch and a book or  list of books to share for a banquet of books and opinions.

Well-known Heroes, Unknown Heroines

 Hero of the Empire by Candice Millard  

How Winston Churchill’s actions in the Boer War transformed him from a disappointment to a national figure.

Copies are available at the Reference Desk to check out.

Siblings: in novels and nonfiction

"Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet."-- Vietnamese proverb 

Love 'em or hate 'em-- and usually it's love 'em AND hate 'em--our brothers and sisters provoke intense feelings.

How do these authors capture the relationship? Did the fictional hero -- or psychologist-- shed new light on this tangled relationship?  What did you discover by reading that perhaps a lifetime has not revealed?

Join Lebanon resident, Art Pease as he takes us on an armchair tour of Colburn Park, featuring maps, aerial views and many photos of the  buildings which give Lebanon its distinctive small-town New England look and feel. This two-part presentation will be given on separate evenings and will encourage audience participation.

Part one: Kilton Library Community Room on Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 7 p.m.

Part two: Lebanon Library, All Purpose Room on Thursday, May 24, 2018 at 7 p.m.

Join Lebanon resident, Art Pease as he takes us on an armchair tour of Colburn Park, featuring maps, aerial views and many photos of the  buildings which give Lebanon its distinctive small-town New England look and feel. This two-part presentation will be given on separate evenings and will encourage audience participation.

Part one: Kilton Library Community Room on Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 7 p.m.

Part two: Lebanon Library, All Purpose Room on Thursday, May 24, 2018 at 7 p.m.